Sunshine. Pat Warren
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WELCOME TO TYLER-COLD ENOUGH FOR YOU?
It’s winter carnival time in Tyler. Button up your parka and take a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the deceptively quiet streets of America’s favorite hometown.
HER HUSBAND LED A SECRET LIFE
Janice Eber is shattered by her husband’s sudden death. But that’s nothing compared to how she feels when she discovers his devastating secret....
WOULD SHE BE ABLE TO LOVE AGAIN?
David Markus loved Janice once. He still does. But will Janice be able to overcome the pain of her husband’s betrayal and return David’s love?
Previously Published.
“Do you know a Diane Flynn in Chicago?”
The nightmare David had worried about since the day of Kurt’s funeral was here. “Should I know her?” he replied carefully.
“I just thought you might. Of course, Chicago’s a big city.”
Janice paused, awaiting his response, but he couldn’t come up with a thing to say.
“I just don’t know what to think, David,” she finally continued. She briefly told him about finding Kurt’s separate checkbook, and a rent receipt for a Chicago apartment.
He tried to sound casual. “Maybe the best thing you could do is to forget it. What can be accomplished after the fact, after the man’s dead?”
“I’m surprised you don’t understand,” Janice replied, and his heart sank. “Betrayal can be very difficult to live with. Once you lose trust in a man, you may never be able to trust another.”
Welcome to Mills & Boon’s Tyler, a small Wisconsin town whose citizens we hope you’ll come to know and love. Like many of the innovative publishing concepts Mills & Boon has launched over the years, the idea for the Tyler series originated in response to our readers’ preferences. Your enthusiasm for sequels and continuing characters within many of the Mills & Boon lines has prompted us to create a twelve-book series of individual romances whose characters’ lives inevitably intertwine.
Tyler faces many challenges typical of small towns, but the fabric of this fictional community created by Mills & Boon will be torn by the revelation of a long-ago murder, the details of which will evolve right through the series. This intriguing crime will culminate in an emotional trial that profoundly affects the lives of the Ingallses, the Barons, the Forresters and the Wochecks.
There’s new glamour at the old Timberlake resort lodge, which has recently been purchased by a prominent Chicago hotelier, a man with a personal interest in showing Tyler folks his financial clout, and a private objective in reclaiming the love of a town resident he romanced long ago.
Folks at the newspaper office are flattered that Chicago financial adviser David Markus has decided to subscribe to the Tyler Citizen. That’s how he learned that it’s winter carnival time in Tyler. Marge will be serving up her famous Irish stew at the diner. The Kelseys never miss it. And you can bet Britt Hansen’s kids will be first in line for the bobsled run. So join us in Tyler, once a month for the next seven months, for a slice of small-town life that’s not as innocent or as quiet as you might expect, and for a sense of community that will capture your mind and your heart.
Marsha Zinberg
Editorial Coordinator, Tyler Series
Sunshine
Pat Warren
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Pat Warren for her contribution to the Tyler series.
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Joanna Kosloff for her contribution to the concept for the Tyler series.
CONTENTS
EMPTY. She felt empty inside, lost and bewildered. And alone, despite all the people she’d left sleeping back at her house. The big, two-story house she and Kurt had lived in together for all but two years of their twenty-three-year marriage. The house that she would now occupy alone.
Janice Ingalls Eber gathered the collar of her winter coat closer about her throat and stared out at the icy center of Lake Waukoni. She’d awakened early and driven out here to one of the peaceful places she and Kurt had visited often. Only half an hour’s drive from Tyler, the small lake wasn’t nearly as popular as Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago, which was one reason they’d liked coming here to fish, to picnic, to lie on the thick grass in the summertime.
In her mind’s eye, Janice could picture Kurt rowing away from shore, his strong, tan arms moving rhythmically, his dark eyes laughing at her because she’d insisted they wear life jackets. She’d always been the cautious, careful one, while Kurt had loved the excitement of challenges, physical and otherwise. As a young man, he’d raced cars, learned to fly single-engine planes and skied every chance he had. He’d had a restless