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Author Ruthie Henrick
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Hi there! I'm Ruthie Henrick, and I’m an Arizona girl. I write
romantic women’s fiction and contemporary romance.
I’ve always been an avid reader, even as a child. I’ll read just
about anything, but I love anything with romance in it. I am a
romance junkie.
I first started writing a couple of years ago. I’ve never been
that person who dreamed about being an author or loved telling stories. I used
to try making up bedtime stories when my kids were little and I’d draw a blank
every time. But an idea had been running through my mind for a while so I
decided to start typing and see where it led. Three months later I had a really
good first draft. Let me tell you, nobody was more surprised than me!
I love music, especially country music, and that’s generally the
soundtrack to whatever I have going on. At work, doing housework, in the
car—the music is always on. Except when I write—that I have to do in silence.
We have three sons and they’re all grown and scattered around
the country, but the Big Kahuna and I are still ruled by a fifteen-year-old
deaf Pekinese with OCD. Life is interesting!
I’m not much of a TV watcher, except for shows like The Voice
and American Idol. Gives me lots of time to write, and read. Like many of you,
I have a one-click compulsion. The number of unread books on my Kindle is
really embarrassing.
I love chatting with other readers, sharing my favorite books
and authors, and discovering those new to me. Come by and hang out with me on
any of my social media.
Ruthie
xoxo
Books by Ruthie Henrick
Twice in a Lifetime, a
Love Found novel
Is it possible to find your one true love…twice?
Twice in a Lifetime
a Love Found novel
Blind date. When Allie and Ben are thrown together to help their friends out of a bind, they find the unexpected – and unwanted - spark of attraction difficult to ignore. Surrendering to it, they marry and live their happyish-ever-after – until Ben’s death reveals a betrayal that rocks Allie’s world.
The sidelines. Where Jake has hovered for the past fifteen
years, business partners with his best friend, in love with his best friend’s
wife. He’s shocked by Ben's duplicity, overcome by the guilt of a deathbed
promise. But he’s waited half a lifetime for a chance to love Allie, and it’s
time to make his move.
Marriage. Allie might be ready to take the slow slide from
friend to lover, but a lifetime is a leap she won’t agree to. She can’t deprive
Jake of the family he’s never had, but longs for – the family she can no longer
give him. How can she refuse him, though, when he sets out to prove the only
family he needs – has ever wanted – is her?
~ Excerpt ~
“I’m in love with you, Allie. I’ve always loved you.”
Allie gasped and jerked her hands from around his, slapping her
fists to her chest like it would protect her. “No. Jake, no. You can’t. I
can’t.” Frantic now, her eyes were wide with alarm, her breaths coming in short
gasps. “I promised I’d take care of you, too. I . . . can’t.”
The corners of his lips lowered until his smile was but a flimsy
substitute. He’d come so far already. He’d taken the first halting step, he
couldn’t let her shut him down. To see this through he had to leap.
“I learned—a long time ago—to be your friend, Allie. It was the only way I could be a part of your life.” A lifetime of yearning clotted his throat as the words, full of emotion, spilled from his mouth like floodwaters breaching a dam. “But now, now Ben’s been gone a long time and we’ve both done a lot of healing.” He reached for her hands again, lifted them from where they’d drifted to her lap.
“You’re an amazing woman, resilient and strong. I want to be your friend, but I love you. I want more.” Amazingly enough, the words he was unable to rehearse earlier came instinctively now. He brushed his lips across her knuckles.
“I need you, Allie. I need to be with you. I need to come home to you at the end of the day. To share my life with you, and to share yours. To sleep with you at night, and wake with you in the morning. And I think you need me too.”
There it was. His heart—laid on the line for her to cherish or
destroy. It cost him, but the past three years had cost Allie as well. Cost
more than the time spent taking back her independence, but the reward was
ineffable—Allie as a strong, resilient woman. Could he ever make her understand
how proud he was of her?
A large gray moth fluttered against the screen of the open glass
door. The antique Regulator clock ticked against the far wall. He sat, facing
her, searching her eyes, searching her heart, waiting for a sign, scared to
death.
Allie lifted her chin, determined steel gray eyes connecting
with his, her fingers tightened around his, her face impassive.
“No, Jake. I don’t need you.
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