Book Blitz + Giveaway: ‘Where the Road Ends’ by Kathryn Beck
Where the Road Ends
Author: Kathryn Beck
Publication Date: January 13th 2025
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Women’s Fiction
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Synopsis:
Bartender Mara Sawyer has sixty days to turn her life around. If she can’t, Mara will lose the chance to regain custody of her daughter. Never having envisioned her life as a living, breathing, public service announcement for the Wyoming judicial system, Mara embraces the judge’s harsh rebuke. Finding a steady job will be easy, finishing school will be easy. Eluding the distraction of the new swaggering Texan, Luke Whitten, will be anything but easy.
With all her cards on the table, Luke and Mara build a strong friendship and along the way, she gives herself permission to fall in love again. When Mara’s ex offers up full custody in exchange for betraying Luke, Mara must choose — her daughter’s happiness, or her own.
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The location pin on his phone showed he was in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He smirked. Kind of made sense now, the bar name. The phone faded to black, waiting for him to punch in an address, something.
A horn honked in front of him, and the driver left the driveway with a wave to someone.
Luke glanced around. “Not too shabby for a hick town.”
A chipper, informative voice on his phone began spouting off a dissertation about hick towns in general and a song of the same name.
“Shut up.”
The phone went quiet.
Those new beginning adventures reemerged today. After last night, every shot of tequila loosened his pitiful tongue. What could he say? He felt like wallowing, and the bartender girl was a good wallower listener.
He looked at his phone again. “Go west, young man.”
Making a hard right, he went west.
Ten minutes down Interstate 80, the highway became a traffic jam of semis. His little pickup, overshadowed by diesel mammoths. It gave him a chance to look around at the beauty of the mountains, their whitecap tips touching the sky. Last night, nothing had been beautiful, but in the heated cab of his truck, Wyoming was quite gorgeous. All white and green. Mountains, not hills. When things began moving again, the highway patrol motioned drivers off the road and into a rest stop.
The bright sunshine made the cold tolerable. The expensive lightweight jacket he picked up mid trip in Durango did its job, keeping him warm and comfortable.
He walked the on-ramp from the rest stop to the highway, curious to see what the problem was. There were several truck drivers on the side of the road, arms crossed over their down vests.
“Any clue what’s going on?” he asked an older man in a beanie, making a note he needed to pony up for a beanie to go with his fancy warm jacket.
The man pointed down the highway. “Hell of a storm. I’m going to miss my delivery in Salt Lake.”
“They should have rerouted you if the dispatchers had any sense,” one of the other men said.
They all laughed about the stupid-ass dispatchers, safe in their terminals somewhere.
“Might as well get some sleep. Going to be awhile,” the older man said, nodding at Luke. “Only seen this happen once before, and that was a helluva long time ago. We’re going nowhere fast today.”
Luke thanked him and walked farther down the ramp, feeling fortunate there was nowhere to be anytime soon. He kicked at a sheet of ice on the road and maneuvered to the dead grass, so he didn’t slide on his ass and make a fool of himself. He peered in the direction the other gentlemen had looked, holding his hand over his eyes as the sun blasted up and over a mountain top.
He said it to the bartender last night, to himself plenty of times in the last couple of weeks, but in the valley before him, his new reality stared him in the face.
Rushing, as if it had somewhere to be in a hurry instead of considering all the people inconvenienced, the Green River raced up and over the asphalt of the interstate in the distance.
The End of the Road.
Luke pivoted on the dirt, taking in the white mountains, the pine trees snaking up the incline into the bluest, widest sky he’d ever seen. All the air a man could hope to breathe.
Rock Springs would be a tough town if bartender girl were any sign. A tough town built with tough people who weathered tough times with grit and tenacity.
He cocked his head and smiled. He’d fit right in.
About Kathryn Beck
Kathryn is a transplanted Canadian who now calls Texas home. She loves writing strong, morally gray women tackling complex relationships and their messy lives. Kathryn enjoys road trips, spa weekend getaways, and spending time with family and friends.
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My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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