Harlequin Romance July 2020 Box Set by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

SABLE WOKE WITH light burning into the backs of her eyelids. She didn’t even remember falling asleep.

Opening one eye, she found warm afternoon light streaming into the room, sharp, square and split into shades of white and gold, like something out of a Rembrandt painting.

Instinct had her reaching for her camera only to remember how long it had been since she’d held the thing. Long enough she hadn’t been able to find it when she’d madly packed everything she could fit into a single suitcase and moved into a hotel.

The impulse to capture the view dissolved away.

She checked her phone to see the time, only to find another message from Nancy in New York.

When do I get you back? Soon, I hope! I’ve a jaunty little Greek magazine super-keen to hire you. Summer spread. Rugged location.

In Nancy language, “keen” meant Nancy was hounding them. As for “jaunty little Greek magazine”, that was no doubt a far cry from her last gig with Italian Vogue. And light years from a show of her own.

She sent a quick message back.

Hey Nance. I’m alive. I’m fine. Off the grid for a bit. Taking a break from work. Talk soon.

Her phone rang immediately. She turned it on silent and slid it back onto the desk.

She listened to the sounds of the house. No music, meaning her mother was no longer home. And realised she was starving. Meaning she’d have to head into town. For her mother’s fridge would contain little in the way of edible food.

She slid her boots back onto her feet and swapped her man’s jacket for a faux fur coat. A tad over the top for downtown Radiance, but it had been a long time since she’d owned Ugg boots and flannel.

She checked the cupboard for a hat or scarf to cover the mess that was her hair only to find something else instead.

A vintage Kodak box Brownie—the first camera Sable had ever owned. Picked up at a yard sale when she was fourteen years old. A week before they’d arrived in Radiance.

She turned the camera over, ran fingertips over the leather casing.

She’d not taken photos of people back then, so much as old leaves piled up in their backyard, jasmine trailing over their broken fence, a flat tyre dumped in the pristine creek that ran behind their place.

Chaos and harmony. Death and rebirth. Themes that had helped her make sense of her nomadic reality had resonated with people far beyond the boundaries of their small town after entering a few online contests had brought her attention. Prizes. Money. Opportunities. Notoriety. And, ironically, a way out of the nomadic existence that had led to her interest in the first place.

She tilted the thing towards the window, around waist height, and looked down into the small viewfinder.

The first time she’d seen Rafe had been through that lens.

She’d been lying on the bank of the river, the camera to her eye, stones digging into her back, a hank of her long tatty

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