Book & Author Details:
The Friessens: A New Beginning by Lorhainne Eckhart
(The Friessens: A New Beginning #1-4)
Genres: Adult, Romance
Synopsis book 1:
In THE DEADLINE, Andy Friessen has packed up everything and moved his family two states away, to Montana, to protect his wife, Laura, his newborn babies, and his stepson, Gabriel, from the threats of his mother. What Andy doesn’t know is that they’ll soon face a new threat, one he never saw coming.
Gabriel is sick, and a trip to the doctor confirms Laura and Andy’s worst nightmare: Without a lifesaving transplant, their son won’t survive.
What Andy doesn’t count on, as he tracks down the young man who fathered Gabriel, as well as Laura’s estranged parents, is that a whole host of problems are about to be unleashed.
THE FRIESSENS: A NEW BEGINNING:
The Deadline (Andy & Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil & Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad & Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
**The stories in this series are romances filled with sexual tension, rough language, passion, the ideals of family, love and loyalty and The Friessen men in these stories are strong sexy alpha males. And are not your typical happily ever after.
“Look, this is just
for the night.” Andy closed their hotel room door, setting the baby bassinets
on the bed. This had been the only room available, with two queen beds and a
pullout sofa. Laura had tucked Gabriel into one of the beds and he’d fallen asleep
as soon as she took off his shoes, but Andy was worried as he glanced over at
their son. Laura was nursing Chelsea, and Jeremy was lying on the bed beside
her, kicking up his legs.
“How’s he doing?”
Andy slid his coat off and dumped it over their luggage.
“He just wants to
sleep, Andy. I tried to get him to drink some water,” Laura said.
Andy nodded. “Let
him sleep. Hopefully, he’ll be better in the morning and these two won’t pick
up whatever bug he’s got.”
The last thing
Laura wanted was two babies sick along with Gabriel. Flu bugs and colds
generally went through the entire house, taking them all down one by one. The
fact was that Laura was so damn tired that her bones ached. Getting up twice a
night to feed the twins was starting to take its toll on her. On the bed beside
her, as if reading her thoughts, Jeremy started fussing, cramming his fist into
his mouth.
“Andy, I don’t know
how much longer I can nurse these two,” Laura said. “When I feed one, the other
needs feeding, and then they both need to be changed and…” She glanced up at
him and felt bad immediately. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it. I’m just tired.”
“I know you’re
tired,” he said, picking up Jeremy. “Hey there, what are you doing, giving your
mama a hard time?”
Every time Andy
held one of the babies, it tugged on a spot in Laura’s heart. He loved them so
deeply, and he was an amazing father. He’d never allow anything to happen to
them. At times, Andy could be over the top; so strong and so unbending. She may
have once doubted his love for her, but never for the babies——not even for
Gabriel, who wasn’t his biological son.
“I’ll get Chelsea
and Jeremy bathed. You get some rest,” Andy said.
“I’d love to have a
hot bath,” she said, putting it out there for him.
Maybe Andy took
that to mean something else, as he sat beside her on the bed, sliding his arm
around her. “Maybe after I get these two down, I’ll join you,” he said.
After all, it had
been a while since they’d made love——before the twins, and Andy was not a man
to wait. He was hot blooded and so male, but he’d been patient. Whatever
opportunity there had been, well, she’d fallen asleep. They’d had nothing more
than a chaste kiss here and there; a touch, a caress, right before one of the
twins cried out or Gabriel raced in. They needed privacy and time, after she
was rested. Right now, she had a choice between loving her husband and letting
him do all those wonderful things that had her screaming out his name as he
filled her over and over, or wrapping her arms around her pillow and falling into
a deep sleep. Well, it was the pillow that won right now, hands down. She
wondered if other women felt the same way she did. She heard that marriages
often went through a rough patch after kids——and now she understood why.
Chelsea slipped off
her breast, and Andy’s eyes went right there. They exchanged babies, and when
Jeremy latched on to her other breast and started suckling, she leaned back
against the pillow and closed her eyes for just a minute. The next thing she
knew, Andy was taking Jeremy from her and tucking her in bed.
About the Author:
USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart’s books have been described as Longmire meets old school Dallas and she recently received the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Award for Romantic Suspense for her title Lost and Found. With over 30 titles under her belt, she is frequently a top 100 bestselling author in multiple genres such as Romance, Westerns and Mystery/Suspense, including such series as The Outsider, Walk the Right Road, The Wilde Brothers, The Saved and her most recent addition The Friessens: A New Beginning.
Lorhainne lives on sunny Salt Spring Island with her family where she is working on her next novel.
