Harlequin Heartwarming, January 2022 Box Set by Sasha Summers

Author:Sasha Summers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

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KATIE SHOULDN’T HAVE gone to the funeral. It had been a mistake. A big one.

And not just for her but for her son too.

“Caleb, are you okay?” Katie O’Brien-Morris asked her little boy, her heart aching for his loss. A year had passed since his father’s funeral, but she was worried that attending the funeral today had brought back that nightmare for him just as it had for her.

He tipped his chin back and peered at her through a lock of blond hair hanging over his eyes. And a twinge of pain struck her heart. He looked so much like Matt—so much so that his paternal grandparents had said they couldn’t see him anymore because he was too painful a reminder of the beloved son they’d lost.

And so Katie had moved away from Chicago, back home to Willow Creek, Wyoming, even though it was the last place she’d wanted to be. But her parents would never leave the small town where they’d grown up and where they’d married and raised her in this pale blue Victorian on Main Street. She’d wanted her son to have more family in his life than just her, so she’d forced herself to return.

Even though she’d been back a year, she was still living with her parents. She hadn’t been able to bring herself to buy or even rent a house. A house seemed too much for just her and Caleb, and too much maintenance for her to handle alone while running her accounting business. Back home in Chicago, Matt had handled all the household chores.

She and Caleb sat at the small table in the breakfast nook of the kitchen, with the only sound being the murmur of her parents’ voices from the living room.

Her son had yet to answer her.

“Caleb?” she asked, with even more concern and self-recrimination that she’d brought him to the funeral.

“How come Jake doesn’t talk?”

Katie gasped with shock that her son even knew the man’s name. “What—Why do you ask that?” How did Caleb know about Jake Haven? What had he heard?

Did he know about them? Because Willow Creek was a small town, there wasn’t ever much going on, so people tended to gossip about the past.

Caleb’s little brow furrowed beneath that lock of blond hair. “Because he doesn’t talk anymore,” he said, as if she was stupid for not understanding his question.

She hadn’t seen Jake speak to anyone at the funeral. Not that she’d been watching him or anything...

But anytime she had inadvertently glanced his way, the dark-haired cowboy had been sitting alone and silent. With all the mourners—the entire town turned out for the funeral—no one had approached him.

She certainly hadn’t. But why had no one else? Because they’d known they would be met with silence?

How did her son know that?

“When...when did you meet Jake?” she asked. She couldn’t imagine where their paths might have crossed before, and during the funeral, she’d been so worried about bringing up sad memories for Caleb that she hadn’t let him out of her sight.

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