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Author Insight
Disruptions and Distractions
Disruptions and distractions—the stuff of nightmares for control freaks everywhere. Even for those less OCD people, these two words have negative connotations. Both indicate interference—in a plan or of focus and concentration. But what if we looked at disruptions and distractions in a different way? Welcomed them as just the things that might be needed to get us on the right track. In Cedar Ridge, Jessica Hayes’s “ideal” life is disrupted when she’s left behind, stranded in a small town. And then (because being abandoned by your fiancé isn’t enough conflict for a good story), she’s served up with a magnificent distraction in the form of a sexy cowboy. Oh my. Could things get any worse? Different people would certainly respond in different, individual ways, and Jessica’s first response is to try to make the best of the hand she’s been dealt. But the longer she stays in Cedar Ridge, the more she realizes maybe the best thing to do is embrace the disruptions and distractions. If everything happens for a reason, they could be the key to the life she’s always dreamed of living. After all, life happens not despite of disruptions and distractions, but in the midst of them.
Book Excerpt
Cedar Ridge
As the bright autumn afternoon light deepened to gold, eventually fading to the purple-pewter of dusk, Jessica sifted through the events of the last few days. She’d come to Cedar Ridge engaged to be married, determined to take what she felt was rightfully hers, even if it was through deceit. Now, as she sat in the homey kitchen, looking out at an improbably beautiful landscape, she was a different person. The thought of marrying Warner was no more conceivable now than the thought of taking the Silver Jack from the McKendricks. This was not only their home, it had also become a home, of sorts, to her, as well. When the faces of Jared and Faith drifted through her mind like ghosts, she realized they were her home.
Jessica let out a weary sigh, her shoulders slumping. How had this all happened? There had been a plan. More than one, actually. At least those early schemes had a goal in common. Now everything had changed. She wasn’t sure where she stood with her father, or how that would all play out. However, there was no way she’d be able to go through with the wedding. And she no longer saw the issue of obtaining the Silver Jack for the company as black-and-white. Or maybe she did. Only, what she saw as the right thing to do had changed.
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