Cupid's Strings

Book excerpt: Prudence Velcray has known only rejection on Valentine’s Day. Vowing this year will be different, she ends the romance with her boyfriend before she is dealt another crushing blow. Determined to boycott the romantic holiday, she retreats to Snowline Mountain Resort. Here, she accidentally meets Dr. Sebastian Stone, the brother of her third-grade Valentine, and the culprit of her Valentine’s Day downhill spiral. To wrench matters, cupid’s misguided arrow ensnares her in a hopeless attraction that she neither wants nor can deny. Sebastian Stone has devoted his life to medicine scarred by his brother Nicholas’s battle with leukemia when they were children. He has avoided long-term involvements and shuns Valentine's Day entrapments. Yet he is captivated by Prudence Velcray when circumstances throw them together, and they share a kiss that Sebastian can’t forget. As he rebels against his feelings for Prudence, he can’t help himself from falling in love with her. When he almost loses her trust, and a childhood secret is revealed, he must prove to Prudence he is worthy of her love.