num_pages: 272
description: Lexi Jewell left Scarlet Springs twelve years ago vowing never to return to the eccentric Colorado mountain town where she grew up. Now here she isover thirty out of a job and with little choice but to move back in with her father. Lexi knows its just a matter of time before she runs into Austin Taylor her first boyfriend and her first heartbreak. Shes determined to show him shes over himuntil he steps out of a pickup truck and back into her life looking sexy as hell in his mountain ranger uniform.As far as Austin is concerned Lexi can turn her snazzy little convertible around and drive back to Chicago. After all she ripped his teenage heart apart and turned her back on the town he loves. But from the moment he sees her again he cant get her out of his mind. Even her smile messes with his head. When an evening of conversation turns into something else Lexi and Austin agree to be friends againwith benefits. But as Lexi starts making plans to return to the big city Austin realizes hell lose her a second time unless he can show her that what shes searching for has been right here all along.Note to readers: This is straight contemporary romance not romantic suspense.
language: English
title: Barely Breathing
publisher: None