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    Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club
    Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club
    Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club
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    Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club

    By Susan Stephens

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    Can Jewel break free from a dangerous, abusive husband and find someone to make her feel life is worth living again?

    Loud-mouthed Jewel has a heart of gold, but that doesn’t stop her violent husband laying into her when things go wrong for him. When husband Jack is finally arrested for beating her up yet again, Jewel is determined to rebuild her self-confidence by exploring the services of The Ladies Club.

    But there's a problem... Tom Sharp, the police officer who arrested Jewel's husband, holds his self-defense class within yards of the luxury time-share units where the ladies have their club.

    Jewel has no idea that her friends have set her up with the hot law enforcement officer, or that Tom’s rugged exterior hides a heart of gold and an appetite that adds risk to attraction, along with a mega-boost to Jewel’s feelings of self-worth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Stephens
    Release dateJan 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310918698
    Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club
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    Susan Stephens

    Romance with heart, heat and red-hot men, written by author addicted to all of the above.Latest release for Harlequin... UNTOUCHED UNTIL THE GREEK’S RETURNBLOOD AND THUNDER SERIES Dangerous women. Hard men. Ferocious passion.ALEXEI. https://books2read.com/u/m2leOdDANTE. https://books2read.com/u/38dejVDIEGO https://books2read.com/u/me9XezCESAR https://books2read.com/u/mB25GACONOR https://books2read.com/u/baDBNQBooks 1-4 BLOOD AND THUNDER available as box set https://books2read.com/u/mYGQ7YHOT HEX seriesWARRIOR WITCH https://books2read.com/u/3Gw5yPROYAL WITCH. https://books2read.com/u/4Xr6qNCHRISTMAS WITCH https://books2read.com/u/49nXRwFIRE WITCH. https://books2read.com/u/3n2eB8USA TODAY best-selling author Susan Stephens has global sales of over 10 million books. Translated into 26 languages across 109 countries, Susan's 75th book recently hit the shelves.A professional singer before meeting her husband on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, in true romance style they met on Monday, became engaged on Friday and were married three months later.Susan's menagerie consists of dogs, cats, horses, a donkey, several guinea pigs, a husband and three terrific children.Sue enjoys entertaining, travel, and going to the theatre. To relax she reads, cooks and plays the piano, and when she's had enough of relaxing she throws herself off mountains on skis, or gallops through the countryside singing loudly.But most of all, she loves hearing from you, her readers, and keeping in touch via regular newsletters.FREE story for new subscribers.Newsletter Sign-up:https://subscribepage.com/f9n2j5

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      Valentine's Night At The Ladies Club - Susan Stephens

      Valentine’s Night At The Ladies Club:

      Jewel’s Story

      By Susan Stephens

      Copyright © 2015 Susan Stephens

      ISBN: 978-1-910604-04-5 eBook Mobi

      ISBN: 978-1-910604-05-2 eBook ePub

      Contemporary Romance

      Published by Susan Stephens

      Cover Design by GlassSlipperWebDesign

      Formatting by GlassSlipperWebDesign

      Copyright for the couple on the cover is held by Shutterstock

      Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real.

      All Rights Reserved.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. To obtain permission to excerpt portions of the text, please contact the author at: mailto:susan@susanstephens.net

      www.susanstephens.com

      Chapter One

      A couple from the wrong side of the tracks who just got lucky.

      That was how the snobs at the golf club described Jewel and her husband Jack.

      Jewel was under no illusions about it. The friends she’d made in the Ladies Club didn’t think it, nor did hot-stuff Jake, the kid who now owned the golf club, thanks to the fortune Jake had amassed with his Internet doodles in less time than it had taken his mother to potty train him, apparently.

      Those same snobs weren’t too proud to take her money, Jewel reflected as she settled the latest diamond and sapphire apology from her husband Jack around her neck. She always paid her subscription promptly, unlike the members who were full of big talk, but who also probably owned only one wheel of their flashy cars.

      Why did she remain a member of the golf club?

      Apart from the fact that Jack had insisted on joining—to ‘position them’ in society, he’d said (whatever that was supposed to mean)—she’d stayed because of the women she’d met. They’d become her friends. Good friends. Loyal friends. And there was another reason. She was tired of running scared. No one was going to frighten her off again. That exclusive right was reserved for her brute of a husband Jack.

      Sapphire...bruise. Sapphire...bruise...

      Her gaze flicked back and forth. They were the same color. Had that registered somewhere deep in his monkey brain when Jack bought the necklace? Stuffing it back in the jewelry box, she slammed down the lid. Flashy things meant nothing to her. She would have swopped them all to feel safe in her own home.

      Why didn’t she leave him?

      Because Jack hadn’t always been brutal. They’d met when they were kids before Jack had even thought of going into the scrap metal business. Jack had made plenty of money, but slowly over the years he had changed. ‘Left her behind’, was how he put it. Jewel just knew that’d become strangers. When Jack was with his cronies, she didn’t recognize him as the boy she’d fallen in love with.

      She peered into the mirror again. This was just one black eye in a long line of black eyes Jack had given her over recent years, each of which had produced an apology in the form of a very nice addition to Jewel’s impressive jewelry collection. Each time he hit her, Jack bought her a new piece of bling.

      It really wasn’t funny, but with no one to hear her in the vast, echoing house, she laughed. She stayed with Jack because she was frightened of him. She was also frightened of returning to the poverty she’d known as a child, which wasn’t the dressed-up poster campaign variety, but the very real kind, that had involved scavenging in dustbins behind fast food places when she was starving hungry and her parents were liquored-up

      Surviving her childhood had made Jewel the loudest, brashest, and most outspoken of her friends. She’d had to be pushy to survive. But she knew when to be quiet too, Jewel reflected, casting a glance at her diamond watch before remembering with relief that Jack wouldn’t be coming home, and so she could laugh out loud as much as she wanted without being hit across the face, or accused of braying like a donkey.

      Jack wasn’t coming home, because Jack was locked up thanks to Inspector Sharp by name and nature.

      She’d been relieved when the hot law enforcement officer had muscled his way into the house past Jack’s thugs. He’d rammed Jack’s arms behind his back, and his colleagues had carted Jack away. She’d spent a lot of time since then, daydreaming about a man—a tough, good-looking man, a man who lived a decent life—taking care of her, before she brushed that thought away. Miracles didn’t happen for women like her.

      She hadn’t reported Jack’s abuse to the police. It was the girl Jack had insisted must work in Jewel’s kitchen, the kitchen Jewel had longed to call her own who had called in the police when she heard Jewel screaming. Jewel had been lying with her face squashed against the cold wood of Jack’s desk at the time, with his knee up her backside while his thugs looked on and laughed. Any humiliation Jack could inflict on her put him in a good mood. She’d struggled away and he’d hit her to the ground.

      Thank God Maria had made that call. She’d taken a huge personal risk. Maria was a gem

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