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Four couples take a chance on love - a cop and a rec director, surrounded by a swimming pool of special needs kids; a corporate troubleshooter and one of his prime suspects, trying to unravel threats and lies before a business is ruined and someone gets hurt; a radio personality versus his alter ego, and the girl who might love them both; and the office good girl, ready to cave under nasty office politics, rescued by the new guy at work, who comes to her door because of a nasty trick played on them both. From summer to fall to the holidays, love blooms in Tabor Heights.
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"It's just the uniform. You don't know anything about the guy inside the uniform. What if he's completely different in trunks, in the pool? What if he really doesn't like kids, it's a routine when he does the DARE program?" she muttered, and wished she had chosen ice cream for lunch. All that milk and sugar would have put her into a semi-coma for the afternoon and she wouldn't be panicking like this. "What were you doing, asking him to help with the swimming, just to spend more time with him? Do you really want a guy who can be caught by a bathing suit and glitter?" Trina swallowed hard to fight the flip-flop of sensations in her gut and chest. First a falling, heavy feeling that made it hard to breathe, then a butterfly, giddy trembling that stole her breath.
Either way, her brain was starved for oxygen.
"Breathe, you scheming vixen," she muttered, and burst out laughing in the middle of inhaling, so she almost collapsed and slid off her chair. "Okay," she scolded herself after she got her breath and her seat back. "You've been manufacturing reasons for months to be around Mike, to talk to him. Todd James just happens to be part of the package deal. Fine. He's a jerk and I don't know what Patty sees in him, but fine ¿ but at least he's a helpful jerk, even if he does half the things I really want Mike to do, because Patty is there and he wants to make points with her and... I know he doesn't like me, but maybe if I ask him to stop being so helpful and leave it all for Mike to do?"
She heard the horsy laughter of Missy Rhodes, and sprang up from her chair to look out the window. Her heart stopped for at least five seconds as she saw Mike kneeling in front of Missy's wheelchair, playing that hand-slapping game she could never seem to get the hang of. She knew Mike was good, had seen him trounce the boys in their church when they played on the sidelines during basketball games or other events, but this time Missy was winning.
That grin on Mike's face, crooked and kind of misty-eyed, assured her that she hadn't been imagining his affection for kids or the good soul inside the big man. To see that was almost as precious as hearing Missy laugh, full out, without choking or losing her breath. This might be Missy's last summer in the Rec Program. It seemed every season, another part of her body betrayed her, and the cascade effect of physical problems grew progressively worse. Trina considered holding a sweet sixteen party for Missy this fall when she turned fourteen, just so she wouldn't miss out.
Mike Nichols made Missy laugh. Trina suspected she had been slowly falling in love with the man since the day she met him. Now, she was sure, and it wasn't a fall but a deliberate, eyes-wide-open dive.
"This book is a treasury of four individual stories which absolutely captured my attention as few series do. Tabor Heights is a city that's the brainchild of author Michelle Levigne. Through the books written to date, I have become fascinated with what is going on in this town as well as with the people who live there. I can visualize the town itself and the individual shops and other structures. Every time I read another Tabor Heights novel I feel as if I'm going back home... Levigne's concept is absolutely inspired. Her creation of the town and its citizens is more proof of her ability to mesmerize her readers...I cannot say enough about this book. It was spellbinding and I recommend it for everyone. Don't dare miss this book!"
"Michelle L. Levigne digs deep into the psyche of her two main characters and presents two people her readers will recognise and connect with. Her secondary characters have wooden spoons aplenty, and eagerly use them to stir the plot...This is a charming 'feel-good' story that presents real people and their goals and ambitions to find love and trust in the partner they want to spend the rest of their lives with.'
"Every character in this story comes alive, be their part small or large, they become intricate pieces in the unfolding puzzle. They come across as real as someone you may meet on the street. They experience emotions we share with our best friends...Good and evil waltz through this story and it is well worth giving yourself a treat, and discover what happens when the music stops."
"Michelle L. Levigne proves her ability to write on several different levels and this one is all about personal dreams, faith, misunderstandings, and integrity. Sometimes the best intentions go amiss and it is how you go about putting things to rights that becomes important...Ms Levigne has a gift of presenting description with her use of the senses and places her readers right beside her characters. This is a charming story and is full of the ‘Ahhhhhhhhhhh!’ factor."
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