The red haired bombshell rolled into Cole Mountain and blew up our lives.AsherIn the past, we were attracted to the same woman.This time it was different.My twin brother Alex and I felt the strong connection to her.It isn’t a want. It’s a need. An itch we can’t scratch.We need to have her. We need to claim her. Show her she belongs to us.Some would say the orphan is damaged goods. Not to me and … us.
Some would say the orphan is damaged goods. Not to me and my brother.
She’s a diamond in the rough meant to be ours, forever.
Anastasia
I’ve never known what it felt like to be loved, until I met Alex and Asher.
They’ve proved they’d walk to the ends of the earth to protect me.
My ex-boyfriend’s coming for me.
He’s treacherous.
I can’t let them die for me.
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This is the second story in the The Cole Mountain Brothers. You don’t have to read the first story, Stranded, to understand this story, but it might help a little to understand the story behind the Cole Mountain Brothers. This story can easily be read as a stand-alone.
OMG! This is only the second story this very promising author has written and it reads like a long time pro of Best Sellers. Zoe will be one you should follow from now on! The background that she has written about Cole Mountain, and the Cole family is fantastic. The characters, the residents of the town and the main characters are so real it is like they could walk right off the pages. The emotions that she brings forth you can feel so deed in your bones. The story line in this story was outstanding! I am so looking forward to reading the rest of the series and every book she writes!
Anastasia is on the run from an abusive boyfriend. She feels that she is a ‘throw away’. Her parents abandoned her as a baby at an orphanage. When she was about to be adopted, they found out they were pregnant with their own baby, so they brought her back to the orphanage. She had be in and out of Foster homes, the orphanage and the county home. She left when she was 17 and lived on the street until she met Anthony. He was playing his guitar on the street for change. He took her in, trained her and then she was his cash cow on hustling pool. When she got a job at a nice seafood restaurant, he started to beat her face so she wouldn’t go to work, so she could hustle pool, which made more money for him. Anthony told her that he would come after her if she ran and that if he couldn’t have her, then nobody else will either. She horded $200 and ran with very little. When she got off the bus, she liked the small town, but had to get a job. $150 in her pocket won’t last long when the hotel room cost $100 a night. Plus the clothes she had from South Carolina weren’t meant for New York in the mountains with snow. She went into the Outfitter shop to price coats. There she met the best looking man she has ever seen. What made it even hotter, was the other man who came to help her, the first’s identical twin. They talked with her and welcomed her to their small town. They told her that the diner was looking for help, so she went there next and was immediately hired.
Asher and Alex, identical twins, have always liked the same things in all things. Their mother had tried to separate them to help them develop their own, but in different parts of the house, they would still choose to watch the same shows, play the same games and choose the same things. Growing up, they remained the same way. They shared a house, they worked together at the Outfitter, which is owned by the family. When they dated, they always were attracted to the same girls. But when they tried to date different girls, it never worked. They were looking for one female to be their own. With their looks in a vacation town, finding someone for a one night stand wasn’t hard. It was finding someone they wanted to be with for the long haul. When they met Anastasia, they knew she was the one they were both interested in. She was drop-dead gorgeous yet didn’t seem to know it. In a small town, everyone talks, so finding out where she is working and staying isn’t hard. They show up at the diner, sit at ‘their table’ and present her with the coat she was looking at. She could pay them back later. A few days later, they show up at the brewery where she was having her first girls night, and they present her with boots to withstand the snow instead of her ballet slipper shoes. Yes, there are going to be catty females that are jealous that she has the attention of the Cole twins when they can’t get even one of their attention, but that is a small town for you. When they find out about Anthony, they vow to protect her when he comes after her.
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