Killian: A West Bend Saints Romance (West Bend Saints #4)
Sabrina Paige
For my husband, the best dad in the world. And for my daughter Emma, as always.
For my patient readers, you’ve waited while I wrote this series very slowly. I’m pretty sure glaciers move faster than I write. Thanks for sticking with it.
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Author’s Note
Special New Release & Bonus Content
Killian wraps up the West Bend Saints series. The book can be read as a standalone, although it’s better if you’ve read the others prior to reading Killian, especially because Killian does have spoilers in it for the other books.
To celebrate Killian’s release, I’ve included THE ENTIRE SERIES in Killian for a limited time! And if you’ve already read the first three books, don’t worry — I have some new fun content for you, too! Read on, because I have BRAND NEW EPILOGUES included!
I’ve placed Killian first in the book, so if you’ve read the other books, you don’t have to flip through the book to get to Killian. If you haven’t read the other books in the series, you can find the links to each of the other books (in order after Killian) in the table of contents. The series order is as follows:
Elias (Book One)
Silas (Book Two)
Luke (Book Three)
Killian (Book Four)
Since I’ve included all of the books, that means that Killian itself is not fifty bajillion pages long, so don’t be misled by the ginormous page count on the Amazon page or the crazy number of Kindle locations in this file.
These are full-length novels, and Killian weighs in at around 80k words, so it’ll end around 30% on your Kindle, if you’re trying to keep track of the pacing. The other books range from 60-75k words each, with Elias ending around 54%, Silas at 77%, and Luke at 100%.
Just for fun, I’ve also included a BRAND NEW additional epilogue for each of the prior books! Those are marked in the table of contents for easy access. If you’ve already read those books, I hope you enjoy seeing what the future has in store for Elias and River, Silas and Tempest, and Luke and Autumn. (Spoiler, one of the couples ends up with twins and triplets!)
I know a lot of you have been waiting patiently for Killian, and I hope that you love him as much as I do.
Sabrina
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Lily
Almost Eight Years Ago
One knock on the door, and my entire world was changed forever.
I’d prepared for that moment since Adam slipped the wedding band on my finger back when I was eighteen years old, young and na?ve and invincible. I felt like I’d aged two decades in the past six years.
I would age even faster after the knock on the door. Every cop’s wife thinks about that moment, steels herself against the fear that her husband won’t return from his shift. Each time Adam left, I held my breath, wondering if this would be the time he wouldn’t come back.
“Mrs. Nelson?”
When I saw the officer in dress uniform standing in the doorway, I knew all there was to know. I didn’t need to hear anything else after those words, even if I could have heard the rest of what he said over the sound of my own sobbing.
Adam Nelson. 1984-2008. Killed in the line of duty.
One sentence to sum up a whole life.
One knock on the door, and I was a widow at twenty-four years old.
I hadn’t told Adam I was pregnant. I had just found out. I was saving the news until after the first trimester.
He died not knowing he was a father.
It wasn’t until later that I found out everything I knew about Adam had been a lie.
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Lily
“Shit.” I mutter the word under my breath as I glance up at the clock, wiping my flour-covered hands down the length of my apron. Why am I always running late? "Not running late" should be next years' New Years resolution. Of course, acquiring organizational skills and eating fewer cupcakes should probably be up there on the priority list too. In fact, if I had better organizational skills, I’d write that down on a sticky note or put it in a planner so I remembered the next time I was making resolutions.
“Opal, are you absolutely sure you’ve got things covered?" I ask. "I hate to leave you here manning the front and back of the store at the same time. We could easily shut down early.”