A RECKLESS MEMORY - Oil Knights Book 1 - by Marie Johnston (Ansen Barron and Aggie/Agatha Knight)

From Marie Johnston comes a small town second chance romance.

What you will find within the pages…

💕Second Chance Romance

💕Small Town Romance

💕Forced Proximity

💕Boss/Employee

💕Runaway Bride

ABOUT THE BOOK

 I fled minutes before my wedding when I learned my fiancée was being paid to marry me. Ten years, too many crappy exes, and one drunken decision later, I’m now his boss.

I worked hard to get where I am. New house. Good job. Fresh start. I even have a budding horse rescue, but with my full-time work, I need a manager to rehabilitate and train the animals.

During a night out with a friend, we start commiserating about how crappy exes never get their due. A stalker ex is happily married, yet I just got dumped after being told I was cold and emotionless. That ex got my promotion. And then there’s the ex who shall not be named—it’s Ansen Barron, as if I can forget his devastating grin and talented touch. If only someone could teach them a lesson.

Just so happens he who shall not be named is down on his luck. It's my turn to be in control. After sending a tipsy email from a dummy account offering Ansen the new (low paying) position of rescue manager, I wake up hungover, with an employee.

When he arrives, I feel anything but cold and emotionless. He reignites a spark inside me I didn’t know was extinguished. He blows the dust off the old Aggie and I realize how much of myself I’ve smothered.

I’m supposed to be running a horse rescue. Instead, I’ve got pigs and ducks and donkeys and a manager who sees the real me, who makes me wonder how much was fake. He's slowly piecing my heart back together. Only I can’t forget he was the one who shattered it in the first place. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meet Marie Johnston

Marie Johnston is a RITA® Finalist, and a best-selling and award-winning writer of paranormal and contemporary romance – and an avid reader of them both.

Several years ago, when kids started outnumbering adults in the house, Marie Johnston left her job as a public health microbiologist to stay at home. Settling into working part-time and shuttling kids around gave Marie the opportunity to think about what she wanted to be when she grew up. A die-hard science geek, she explored her previously thought to be non-existent creative side after much time spent making snowman crafts and coloring princesses. Having entertained thoughts of writing a book one day then subsequently deciding it would be too hard, she finally put the figurative pen to paper and began to type – and fell in love with story telling.

 

The Sigma Menace is the first series by Marie with Fever Claim being her first book EVER.  She is humbled by the fact that people are willing to read to her books and looks forward to keeping readers entertained for many years.

 

Marie lives with her husband and four kids in North Dakota where the summers are gorgeous, the winters are brutal, and spring and fall are luxuries.

To learn more about Marie and her books, visit here! 

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This is the first book in a new series by the author called Oil Knights. It's an offshoot of the authors Barron Oil series and stars Archer and Delaney Barron who we met in "Make Me Shiver" and the main male lead is Archer's brother, Ansen Barron.

The story begins 10 years before when Ansen was going to marry Aggie/Agatha Knight. He was to be paid a lot of money except her brother, Cody found out and exposed the deal with their father and Ansen. In the years after Aggie went to college, works at the refinery for Cameron Barron, built a house and is starting a horse rescue business.

Meanwhile Ansen has not had much luck in life. In fact, he is involved in a scandal and is pretty much unhireable. That is until Aggie gets drunk and offers him a job. And so, begins their business relationship. 

The Knight family consists of daddy Barns Knight and Aggie's brothers:

Cody is the oldest and is a widower with two young kids, Ivy and Grayson. He is the CEO and runs the family oil business.

Austen is away in the military

Eliot who is single and runs the ranch with their Dad is ranch manager of the Knight’s Arabians and Cattle Company,

Wilder, is a police officer who is married to Aggie's best friend Sutton who is a vet. It is not a happy marriage.

This was a wonderful second chance romance between Aggie and the guy who did her wrong. For Ansen its a second chance at following his dream and training animals/horses.

 I seriously loved this book so very much. I could not out it down and couldn't wait to see how the author would end the story and give Aggie and Ansen their happily ever after.