Harlequin Heartwarming May 2023 Box Set by Cathy McDavid

Author:Cathy McDavid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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DESPITE WHAT HER father believed, Kelsea Carruthers wasn’t a quitter. She hurried after Barry Sullivan and found herself in a spacious kitchen fitted with sunflower-yellow appliances and mahogany cabinets. The faded wallpaper took her back to cooking lessons at her grandmother’s house.

Mr. Sullivan bustled around the area where the spicy aroma of cilantro and cumin filled the air. “Make yourself at home.”

She removed Will’s jacket and hung it on an empty hook near the mudroom. Somehow, she had to win an audience with the gruff rancher. The wind turbine would surely sell itself once Will heard about its environmental attributes and handsome payout in exchange for the use of a small parcel of his land.

Last year, she’d faced tougher customers than Will at the Georgia bar where she’d waited tables for three months. Then one night, she’d arrived for her shift, only to find herself replaced with the manager’s girlfriend. Her father had stared at her with disappointment over her latest dismissal, but she couldn’t be blamed for that, could she?

Before that, she’d lasted for a week as a short-order cook at a seafood restaurant. The first evening she sampled the manager’s special and ended up in the hospital. Turned out she was highly allergic to catfish. Who knew? Not her, since fish of any kind was never her favorite. The owner told Kelsea she could continue working there, but why risk another ER visit? Prior to that, she’d enjoyed a short stint as a gift wrapper for a department store. Seasonal jobs and serious allergic reactions were genuine reasons to pursue other employment. At least to her, they seemed reasonable. To her father? Dr. Preston Carruthers simply shook his head and pursed his lips when she told him she’d lost yet another job.

Preston had taken it upon himself to aid with her career path. To anyone looking in, his phone call to his college roommate, asking about a position for Kelsea, would seem like an act of filial love. The problem was Preston never did anything of the sort for her two perfect half siblings. Her half brother, Adam, had followed in Preston’s footsteps in medicine while her half sister, Alexis, was about to graduate with her doctorate. Kelsea had never seen her father look at either of them with the same disappointment.

For the past six months, EverWind had gainfully employed Kelsea as their newest assistant project manager. Reporting to their training facility outside of Atlanta, she studied ecology and the different models of wind turbines. She’d burned the midnight oil poring over machine specifications and plat maps to check on land boundaries and divisions. Then she’d visited several existing facilities where EverWind’s field engineers taught her how to gauge the factors in site selection. Her probation period depended on her leasing land for the company’s turbines.

Intent on making her father as proud of her as he was of her half siblings, Kelsea intended on keeping this job. Her future depended on Barry Sullivan signing his name to a contract.

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