Jar of Hearts: (Family Stone, # 5 Keisha and Shane) (Family Stone Romantic Suspense) by Lisa Hughey
Authors: Lisa Hughey
Tags: romantic suspense
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He knew from their past discussions about life and their own viewpoints that their relationship wasn’t going to be perfect. But they’d have plenty of time to get it right.
“Okay,” she finally said.
“Okay…?”
“You going to show me your home or what?” With her hand propped on her hip and her curls brushing her shoulder, the sass was back. And he knew what she really meant was she loved him too.
***
Thank you for reading Shane and Keisha’s story, Jar of Hearts! I hope you loved getting to know these characters just as much as I have. If you did enjoy this novella, below are a few ways you can help a writer out!!
Good: Lend the book to a friend
Better: Recommend the book to your friends
Best: Leave a review at Apple, Amazon, BN, Goodreads, All Romance...basically any place they sell eBooks. Every review helps my work get out to other readers and I cannot even express how much it means to me when you let people know you liked my work. Readers have so many choices nowadays and limited dollars to spend. It can be difficult to take a chance on a new author even if the premise sounds appealing. By reviewing books, you give other readers insight into the story world and help them make informed purchases.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support!!
p.s. Would you like to know when my next book is available? You can sign up for my new release email list/newsletter at Lisa’s Latest News
Author’s Note
Welcome to the world of the Stone Family siblings, Jess, Connor, Riley and Jack. I hope you loved getting to know the Stone siblings as much as I did. In the course of writing the four interconnected novellas, I developed quite an affection for both Keisha, who we meet in Stone Cold Heart, and Shane who we meet in Heart of Stone. And then we get to know both of them a little better in Still The One.
Jar of Hearts was supposed to be a short story of the relationship between Keisha Johnson, an employee at GHR and Stone Consulting, and Shane Washington, the on call pilot for the company.
But Keisha and Shane wouldn’t let me alone and their story blossomed into a novella. The Food for Life food bank is fictional but the information and details about the operations and the distribution is similar to my local food bank where my family has volunteered for the past few years.
Excerpt from Stone Cold Heart
Family Stone #1 Jess
In the early evening dusk, Jess Stone lay on her stomach in the twenty foot high rubble of a demolished church, underneath a black and gray city-scape tarp intended to camouflage her position. A sharp-edged chunk of debris dug into her lower rib cage, the scope of the Remington M24 cool and familiar against her face.
Her standard uniform of jeans, running shoes, and plain black t-shirt rendered her just another anonymous and transient relief worker...which she was actually. A black baseball cap hid her distinctive multi-hued blonde hair. The paper mask kept out the contaminated dust from the destroyed buildings but did little to stem the overwhelming stench of decaying bodies.
Tanks rumbled through the destroyed coastal town, their public address system blasting warnings for citizens to stay in their homes, curfew was in effect. The threat was a joke. Ninety percent of the people in the town didn't have homes left. Those who did were terrified to go back inside. In the fetid, humidity choked air, the tent cities erected in the parks and on the beach were seething masses of the injured and shock struck.
The substandard construction in the small country had never been enough to withstand the angry might of Mother Nature. Buildings had toppled like a stack of Tinkertoys, and left crumbling cement walls with twisted rebar poking out of the jagged ruins like a skeletal hand.
Trapped in the concrete pieces that littered the ground, the heat from the tropical day seared through her thin sturdy clothing. The stank of the raw sewage that ran in
“Okay,” she finally said.
“Okay…?”
“You going to show me your home or what?” With her hand propped on her hip and her curls brushing her shoulder, the sass was back. And he knew what she really meant was she loved him too.
***
Thank you for reading Shane and Keisha’s story, Jar of Hearts! I hope you loved getting to know these characters just as much as I have. If you did enjoy this novella, below are a few ways you can help a writer out!!
Good: Lend the book to a friend
Better: Recommend the book to your friends
Best: Leave a review at Apple, Amazon, BN, Goodreads, All Romance...basically any place they sell eBooks. Every review helps my work get out to other readers and I cannot even express how much it means to me when you let people know you liked my work. Readers have so many choices nowadays and limited dollars to spend. It can be difficult to take a chance on a new author even if the premise sounds appealing. By reviewing books, you give other readers insight into the story world and help them make informed purchases.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support!!
p.s. Would you like to know when my next book is available? You can sign up for my new release email list/newsletter at Lisa’s Latest News
Author’s Note
Welcome to the world of the Stone Family siblings, Jess, Connor, Riley and Jack. I hope you loved getting to know the Stone siblings as much as I did. In the course of writing the four interconnected novellas, I developed quite an affection for both Keisha, who we meet in Stone Cold Heart, and Shane who we meet in Heart of Stone. And then we get to know both of them a little better in Still The One.
Jar of Hearts was supposed to be a short story of the relationship between Keisha Johnson, an employee at GHR and Stone Consulting, and Shane Washington, the on call pilot for the company.
But Keisha and Shane wouldn’t let me alone and their story blossomed into a novella. The Food for Life food bank is fictional but the information and details about the operations and the distribution is similar to my local food bank where my family has volunteered for the past few years.
Excerpt from Stone Cold Heart
Family Stone #1 Jess
In the early evening dusk, Jess Stone lay on her stomach in the twenty foot high rubble of a demolished church, underneath a black and gray city-scape tarp intended to camouflage her position. A sharp-edged chunk of debris dug into her lower rib cage, the scope of the Remington M24 cool and familiar against her face.
Her standard uniform of jeans, running shoes, and plain black t-shirt rendered her just another anonymous and transient relief worker...which she was actually. A black baseball cap hid her distinctive multi-hued blonde hair. The paper mask kept out the contaminated dust from the destroyed buildings but did little to stem the overwhelming stench of decaying bodies.
Tanks rumbled through the destroyed coastal town, their public address system blasting warnings for citizens to stay in their homes, curfew was in effect. The threat was a joke. Ninety percent of the people in the town didn't have homes left. Those who did were terrified to go back inside. In the fetid, humidity choked air, the tent cities erected in the parks and on the beach were seething masses of the injured and shock struck.
The substandard construction in the small country had never been enough to withstand the angry might of Mother Nature. Buildings had toppled like a stack of Tinkertoys, and left crumbling cement walls with twisted rebar poking out of the jagged ruins like a skeletal hand.
Trapped in the concrete pieces that littered the ground, the heat from the tropical day seared through her thin sturdy clothing. The stank of the raw sewage that ran in
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