Gems

by L.C. Zingera

Gems (It’s not about diamonds) From an incredibly stressful beginning to an amazingly happy and unusual ending, I hope you will follow Jace and Samantha's love story as they attempt to navigate through each other's worlds and meet in the middle. When a six foot four dark haired, blue-eyed cowboy leaps over the wall into billionaire Samantha Amethyst Silverstone’s garden one evening, she is fascinated. Both by his determination to bypass her security and his looks. She knows he must need something pretty badly to be here. She watches his progress toward her house through her security cameras with her butler and close confidante Oliver. Jace is a man on a mission—he needs funds to send his ailing little niece Gem to an exclusive Swiss clinic for treatment and he’s not leaving without making his request for assistance to Samantha in person. And if that means breaching the walls of her mansion, so be it. However, soon lonely Samantha has a request of her own. Marriage. And definitely not a marriage of convenience. Her request leaves Jace reeling. Marriage to a delicate woman who wears silks and lace, doesn’t own a pair of jeans, and rides sidesaddle? He’s a down to earth no-nonsense cowboy who spends his days working his ranch and tending his horses, he lives in jeans and cowboy boots …could they possibly make it work? But there are some unusual surprises along the way. As Samantha gets to know little Gem, she realizes that the girl bears an uncanny resemblance to herself as a child; and then, while in Europe she discovers another mysterious lookalike in a fashion magazine, a woman so like her that even Jace is fooled into thinking it is her. As the situation progresses, a strange connection between the three lookalikes reveals itself that will have Samantha turning to Jace for emotional support, and it goes far beyond the fact all three girls have gems as their middle names.

165 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2015