tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20083386456406785902024-03-12T18:45:00.054-07:00Short and Sassy Book BlurbsMy name is Danielle and this is my blog dedicated to books and authors. I will post reviews and other goodies on here.
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shortandsassybookblubs@aol.comsassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comBlogger6991125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-67385163755443957352020-10-12T04:40:00.000-07:002020-10-12T04:40:01.398-07:00<!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":1299,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->
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<h4 class="has-text-align-center">Overdue, a swoonworthy best friend to lovers, standalone romance from Miranda Elaine is available now!</h4>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">Growing up, Griffin Thorne was the most annoying, adorable, and infuriating boy I’d ever met. I told myself I wanted nothing to do with him, but no matter how much I tried to hate him, that crazy boy somehow became my best friend.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">As teenagers, we were inseparable. Despite the high school rumors, we never crossed any lines. Friends forever. That was our motto.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">Griffin grew up to become a smoking hot firefighter and I got my dream job as the town librarian. Life was perfect. However, when tragedy strikes and we’re forced to move in together, our friendship is put to the biggest test yet.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">Do I risk everything for the chance at an epic love? If I follow my heart, I could lose my best friend. But if it works, we could finally get our very own Happily Ever After.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Download your copy today or read Free in Kindle Unlimited!</strong><br>Amazon: https://amzn.to/30ZE66z<br>Amazon Worldwide: http://mybook.to/OverdueME</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center">Add Overdue to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3iovYDc</p>
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<p>It doesn’t take long to get to Jack’s place. Griffin and he have been working together for years. Jack has always been the biggest flirt and serial dater up until he met Shelby. But in the span of the eighteen months, he met her, got married in Vegas, and had a kid.<br>It was a quick courtship.<br>Shelby works as an interior designer on the island. She fixes up huge houses for the rich people who will only use them for a couple of months a year. The cookout this weekend was her idea since starting Monday she’s finally back at work since having their baby, Ava, two months ago. She doesn’t really have any coworkers other than her assistant, Sarah, so Jack invited all the other firefighters and their families over too.<br>We park on the street along with a half dozen other trucks and a few minivans from the family men. He’s out of the truck and over on my side before I can even get my things together.<br>“Hand it over,” he demands, his palm up waiting for me to comply.<br>I play dumb, wide eyes and innocence on my face. “What are you talking about?” I climb down the too big truck, trying desperately not to fall over . . . again.<br>“The book that’s hiding in your bag, Leni.” He points to the tote bag hanging to my side. “Come on now, give it to me. Easiest way for you not to give in to the desire to hide and read is to remove the temptation.”<br>“I left my book at home. Remember, you saw me set it down.” I play dumb.<br>“I’ve known you since we were nine. If you think I don’t know that you have a backup book in that bag, then you’re dead wrong.”<br>“Ugh!” I sigh dramatically as I pull out my well-loved copy of Emma and place it in his hand. He gently tosses it onto my seat, and I smack his shoulder as he does. He knows better than to throw around my books.<br>“Great, now the Kindle.” His voice is stern, and I know he means it.<br>“Seriously? Griffin, this is not cool. I’m a grown woman. I can go a few hours without reading.”<br>“Sure, you can. But I know you’ll get overwhelmed by the chaos that is definitely happening in there and you’ll retreat to a quiet corner.” He leans in close enough to me that I can smell his subtle cologne and shoves his hand deep into the tote, pulling my Kindle out in one fast swipe.<br>“Don’t you firefighters take obeying the law seriously?” I snark at him. “Seems to me you’re stealing my possessions and my lifeline.”<br>“Sue me. Hell, march downtown and file a report with any cop there. Good luck getting them to pursue it. I think they have much bigger fish to fry than me holding onto your electronics while we are at a social gathering. Don’t you think?”<br>“Grrr,” I growl at him before stomping off toward the gate with him on my heels. Before I can even acknowledge what is happening, he’s caught up to me and has me caged between him and the gate. I work hard to steady my breath, refusing to let him see how his closeness affects me. I feel his hand slide into the back pocket of my overalls. As quick as it’s there, it’s gone, along with my cell phone. The backup to my backup plan.<br>“I told you, Leni, I know you. You can have this with your Kindle app back on the way home!” he yells out to me as I let the gate behind me slam in front of him.<br>With a huff, I turn, open the gate, and storm angrily through it. Caught in a fit of laughter, he stands there watching me leave him behind. With the loud sound of the metal gate slamming behind me mixed with the booming laughter coming from Griffin, the party seems to come to a complete standstill.<br>Great . . . everyone is looking my way and my first instinct is to turn and run. But to prove to him I can do this, I stand tall, throw my long red hair over my shoulder, and march myself over to Shelby.</p>
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<p><strong>About Miranda</strong><br>Miranda is a loving wife and barely surviving mother of three occasionally good kids. Her hobbies include lying to herself about the calories in donuts and banana pudding, as well as running out of excuses when procrastinating. She's been an avid reader since she was a young girl. Whether she's by the pool, curled up in bed, or hiding in the closet, as long as she has a book in her hands she’s happy.</p>
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<p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Connect with Miranda<br></strong>Facebook: https://bit.ly/3f0ixa6<br>Twitter: https://bit.ly/3g0KOyl<br>Instagram: https://bit.ly/2OTH1an<br>GoodReads: http://bit.ly/2r6CGEi<br>Amazon: https://amzn.to/337VRT5<br>Stay up to date with Miranda by joining her mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/dtnc1P<br>Website: https://www.authormirandaelaine.com</p>
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sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-49795855532036901472020-10-08T18:01:00.001-07:002020-10-08T18:01:13.099-07:00<p> </p><figure class="wp-block-image is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; display: table; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" height="151" scale="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/4Tg1P2eNx_HOAeoLTIO4WinFmCbToeR_GzI_ETJjJg7gOCkjcraFOq5Xje6xjo-i63-5aCnUM64FBa7NOglx3CuQXil3_DLXPOuQ-AFBEDwMEVe0J6O98jh37hsRAe8AoYDt6icQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="388" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; display: table; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" height="525" scale="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/J4X8Cdwm_zCEEjNYSAzDIc4rPTNOrf9vP4HkaRThlHuVIJKhbTa7KjG8isnAh1xgTV-o52xc-1DQVXL9gWKMdiC9EmdJot9f8-ztUzKrp1Q7a50TMbkXl5HH7fxu8Px1rgr9rQ8S" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="351" /></figure><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Addicted to Him by </span></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times, USA Today </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and international bestselling author</span></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monica Murphy is now live!</span></span></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Eli Bennett.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Quarterback at our biggest rival high school.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">My brother’s worst enemy.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">So why can’t I stop thinking about him?</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">For one, he’s totally gorgeous and boy, does he know it. He’s an arrogant trash talker who brings drama wherever he goes.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And for some reason, he’s set his sights on me.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The more I get to know him, the more I realize he’s actually kind of…sweet. Deep down, he’s broken. Hurting. He’s dealing with a lot, but he also puts on a major front so no one can tell. I want to be there for him. I want to be with him. But because everyone in my life hates Eli, we have to keep our relationship a secret.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The problem with secrets is they never stay secret for long…</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Download today!</span> </p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/39Xo8wT" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #530bb1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://amzn.to/39Xo8wT</a></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple: <a href="https://apple.co/2Xr4bJV" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #530bb1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://apple.co/2Xr4bJV</a></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Nook: <a href="https://bit.ly/2DxCRCy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #530bb1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://bit.ly/2DxCRCy</a></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; 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caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; display: table; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" height="372" scale="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/KMju-1xCfPwG5_BiY8SPgRWnK6JVG_5809DNNzn0BzuMhW_JsARw0vj2GEdsadMdZWLPn3GHisgs_wHTXT9p7F48L5r-wu3iNHtlYxH_l1MJ-B0vcEazUmpPWERoXDAM6bGf2Lwq" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="372" /></figure><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Excerpt</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Your team is looking strong this season,” Eli says.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“That’s because we are strong.” It’s my turn to wear the cocky smile as I sit on a nearby</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">barstool. “Be prepared for us to kick your ass during our homecoming.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He makes a dismissive noise. “Good luck with that. We’ve been working on taking your</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">team down for years. This is going to be the game where we finally make it happen.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You really believe that?” I raise a brow.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He rounds the kitchen island so he’s across from me, resting his elbows on the marble</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">countertop before he leans in. His face comes closer and closer to mine, until he’s right there.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Directly in front of me. “I believe in my team, just as strongly as you believe in yours.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I realize our mouths are perfectly aligned. He’s definitely within kissing distance, and I</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">remember what it was like. Kissing Eli. Touching Eli. Feeling his hands on me. My breaths</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">become shorter and my heart thumps wildly. Maybe I should tell him to back off. Or maybe I</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">should back away myself. But I don’t move.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neither does he.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s weird having you here in my kitchen on a Friday night.” He reaches out, tugging</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gently on the end of my ponytail. “Wearing your Badger gear.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Right.” I release a shuddery breath, hoping he doesn’t realize how much he’s affecting</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">me. “Like I told you earlier, I need to change.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You can change in my room,” he offers, raising his brows.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m not going to your room tonight Eli,” I tell him sternly. I have to have some sort of</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">boundaries, or I won’t respect myself in the morning.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And neither will he.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Want to go for a swim?” he asks, still not changing his position.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still directly in my face.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I didn’t bring a swimsuit,” I answer, my voice soft.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“That’s okay. We don’t need swimsuits.” His eyes are dancing, looking more than a little</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pleased with himself.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m not skinny dipping with you.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“That’s a damn shame. I was hoping I could catch a glimpse of naked Ava.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ha. He wishes. “In your dreams.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You are so right,” he says with a sigh. “You don’t even know.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t want to know.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, I sort of do. Not that I’d tell him that.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I can wear my sports bra and briefs,” I tell him, and when he frowns, I continue, “To</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">swim in.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His frown disappears, replaced by a hopeful expression. “You’ll really swim with me?”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Yeah. Sure. But you can’t get too handsy.” Now I lean in even closer, our mouths only</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">inches apart. “I’m not that kind of girl.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He chuckles, and the sound is warm, wrapping all around me. “You give as good as you</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">get, don’t you?”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Even better, if you’re lucky,” I say, breathing deeply as I slowly pull away from him. I</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">don’t even know where I’m coming up with this stuff. Swear he brings it out of me. “But I don’t</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">think you’re ever going to get lucky with me, Bennett.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You can’t challenge me like that. Game fucking on.” He holds his hand out for a bro</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shake and I take it, ready for him to do some elaborate handshake ritual, but he tricks me at the</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">last minute.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, he brings my hand to his mouth, his gaze never leaving mine, as he oh so slowly</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kisses my knuckles. “I’m going to make you mine someday, Ava. Watch me.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh God.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am in so much trouble.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meet Monica</span></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="alignleft is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; float: left; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;"><img alt="" height="277" scale="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/XfkPX1NcUGop99ULcsy7kRmCZhbZjfvevQ7GqclTyWj06kNvB7b62md2Sj2Y6lueZOS6M5SYKgHE0nM-VxzVbo8ccaGueCjoWz2uBXa5cvb-VQsL2JoO4Vij84X6skoKTYLrjV3e" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="221" /></figure></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance. She’s also known as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, two kids, one dog, and four cats. When she’s not writing, she’s an assistant coach for her daughter’s high school cheer team, which is a two season sport. Meaning, she’s at practice with a bunch of teenage girls all the time. Or she’s at a football game. Or a basketball game. Maybe someday, she’ll even write about this experience.</p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connect with Monica</span></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Website: <a href="http://monicamurphyauthor.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #530bb1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://monicamurphyauthor.com</a></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Goodreads: <a href="http://bit.ly/MonicaMurphyGR" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #530bb1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bit.ly/MonicaMurphyGR</a></p><p class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro-1, ff-meta-serif-web-pro-2, serif; font-size: 18px; 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clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><br /></figure><img alt="" class="wp-image-8082" data-attachment-id="8082" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="TravelsnReads-Divider" data-large-file="https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=676" data-medium-file="https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=300" data-orig-file="https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png" data-orig-size="822,58" data-permalink="https://travelsnreads.com/?attachment_id=8082" height="30" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px" src="https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=822" srcset="https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=425 425w, https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=150 150w, https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=300 300w, https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png?w=768 768w, https://travelsnreads.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/travelsnreads-divider.png 822w" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="439" /></figure><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Callaghan kids are killing me!! We need book 2 now!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Be warned, tis book ends in a cliffhanger. That being said, I have been dying for Ava Callahan since book one. Then after her brother's story, I knew this was going to be good. </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Eli Bennett s her brother's sworn rival. He is an the opposing tram, gets under the Callaghan's skin in everyday. But there is something that draws Ava to Eli . Their love story is complex, but still adorable in a young way.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">I cant wait for the next book!</span><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><br /></figure></div>sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-60309841819150767522020-08-11T11:21:00.000-07:002020-08-13T11:26:03.835-07:00<p> </p>
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font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Growing up with six siblings, Leo Preston has always struggled to find his voice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">While his brothers are loud, greedy, and somewhat obnoxious, Leo is forever the quiet one.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The thinker. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; 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font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For Leo, Mia Kovács is like a prize, a gift wrapped in passion and devotion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And she’s his—his very own secret he doesn’t have to share. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Together, they can overcome anything…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">heartache and destruction, guilt and regret. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Mia gives Leo everything he didn’t know he needed, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">including her fragile heart. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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Reader. Mom. Wife. Master of awkward Sarcasm.
Jay McLean is a full-time reader, writer of New Adult and Young Adult romance,
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tessa Chauncy is the best kind of trouble. Beautiful, sweet and completely off limits. I’ve sat by and watched other men drool after her and forced myself to stay in check. Hey, I’m in the NHL... I have self-control in spades. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the bat of her lashes and quick whip of that sharply pointed tongue Tessa can knock grown men to their knees. I’ve seen them wither and crumble under her confident stare— something I’m pretty sure she learned from sparring with me, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">thankyouverymuch</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heaven help me, I’m probably going to get his fist to my face or his hockey stick shoved in very dangerous places for what I’m about to do, but I don’t think I care anymore.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I scoop more chicken onto a folded chunk of naan and moan as I savor the taste. There are some decent restaurants where I live, all within walking distance, which is a bonus, but none are as good as Tandor’s. I can’t even piece together what makes it so delicious but it’s mouth-watering amazing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The chicken I’ve devoured rolls in my stomach. Obviously it’s not because he’s a nice guy. I lean back in my chair. “What is it?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think the day you took me to get stitches in my head, yeah. You bopped me on the nose with a finger and said ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">cute and tough, nice’</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> before ignoring me the rest of the weekend.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His mouth opens a bit and he stares at me. Yeah. That dose of word vomit probably surprises the hell out of him too. But hell, in for a penny. He says he doesn’t give a shit about what Sawyer thinks? He should know what I think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He doesn’t take his eyes off me as he chews on what I think is chicken tikki masala. Slowly, he swallows and sets his own fork down. Leaning forward, elbows on the table, I’m tempted to drop my gaze to his mouth and watch his full lips move so sexily as he opens his mouth and asks, “Want to know when it started for me? When I started facing the reality that it was my best friend’s little sister that made my dick hard in my dreams at night and when I was on the road?”</span></span></div>
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Stacy Lynn is a go to author for me. I love her books. Hockey romance is one of my favorite reads. So this one was a no brainer.<br />
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Jason and Tessa have a weird relationship. Jason has been in love with her for years. She is his best friend's little sister. He has always really statued away. But. something has changed and Jason no longer wants to. He wants to make a go of a relationship with Tessa.<br />
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Tessa is coming out of a bad relationship. He ex stole everything she owns. She was no where to go and nothing to her name. Her brother takes her in and that is when everything changes. Jason finds her a job with the hockey team to ensure she stays in North Carolina and then his plan can fall into place.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every sip of air is shallow and burning, because in the arms of my best friend’s brother, I’m the closest I’ve ever been to sin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His eyes flick to my lips, and I remember the first time I tasted him, seven years ago before I left this town and vowed never to return. His hands grip my waist, and I remember the pain when he rejected me, when my entire world crashed down at his command. His jaw clenches, and my senses come alive with one stinging reminder.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m not his to kiss, and he’s not mine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I tried to stay away from Tyler Wagner, putting an entire country between us. But when his sister’s wedding brings us back to the same town, to the same house, I can’t avoid him, no matter how hard I try.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’s always there, his dark eyes bewitching, luring me into their depths. The memory of us pulls me under like a rip current, and when he flashes that smile, I lose my breath, along with my will, unable to escape his grip and find the surface.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, hours before our plus ones arrive for the wedding, I’m in his arms, begging him to make me hate him, knowing he never could.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If he kisses me right now, I’ll drown.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I’ll take him down with me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make Me Hate You is a best friend's brother romance that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seven miles and an hour later, and all the anxiety I’d felt the night before was completely gone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least, until I rounded the foyer into the kitchen and saw I wasn’t the only one up early on Sunday morning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tyler sat at the kitchen island, still in his navy blue sweat pants and simple white t-shirt, with one foot planted on the ground and the other hooked casually on the lower bar of his stool. His hair was an absolute disaster, the boyish waves sticking up this way and that. He had both hands wrapped around a mug of hot tea, his eyes focused on the iPad he had propped up in front of him, and BlueTooth headphones in his ears. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At first, he didn’t notice me, and I slowed my steps, standing silently at the entry of the kitchen and watching him. I’d done everything I could last night to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">avoid</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> his gaze, to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> look at him, and now that I had a stolen moment to observe, I found my chest tightening again, my mouth dry and sticky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His brown eyes were hidden beneath bent brows, expression serious as he watched whatever was on the screen. Small lines creased the edges of his eyes — lines that weren’t there when we were kids. He’d grown into a man somehow, overnight, it seemed. Then again, it had been years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’d seen him on social media, watched from afar as his YouTube channel took off. I’d seen pictures of him on Instagram — traveling through Europe, hiking in Australia, swimming in hot pools in Iceland. I didn’t </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">follow</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> him, of course, but his profile was public, which allowed me to flip through picture after picture on the nights when I was a pathetic mess.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, pictures and videos didn’t do justice to the actual man who sat studiously at that kitchen island.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He was something between the boy I used to love and the man I’d never know, familiar and unreachable all at once.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tyler shook his head at something, letting out a frustrated sigh and kicking back the bar stool a little before taking a sip of his tea. His eyes flicked to me then, back to the screen, and then, he did a double take, this time fixing his gaze on me and leaving it there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Something changed in his eyes when he looked at me, like a shadow passed over them and held him captive. I was dressed in jogger shorts and a modest tank top, but from the way he watched me, I might as well have been completely naked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s what his gaze did to me, what it always had done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kandi Steiner is a bestselling author and whiskey connoisseur living in Tampa, FL. Best known for writing “emotional roller-coaster” stories, she loves bringing flawed characters to life and writing about real, raw romance — in all its forms. No two Kandi Steiner books are the same, and if you’re a lover of angsty, emotional, and inspirational reads, she’s your gal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An alumna of the University of Central Florida, Kandi graduated with a double major in Creative Writing and Advertising/PR with a minor in Women’s Studies. She started writing back in the 4th grade after reading the first Harry Potter installment. In 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed it to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.” She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a die-hard hopeless romantic, and likes to highlight all the challenges of love as well as the triumphs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Kandi isn’t writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, talking with her extremely vocal cat, and spending time with her friends and family. She enjoys live music, traveling, anything heavy in carbs, beach days, movie marathons, craft beer, and sweet wine — not necessarily in that order.</span></div>
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Tyler and Jasmine have been given a second chance. They spent one night together many years ago. It drove Jasmine to move away and not speak or see Tyler again, even though he is her best friend's brother. Forced to come home to be the maid of honor in her best friend's wedding, she is back spending all her time with Tyler.<br />
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The 2 quickly fall back into their ways. The both are in relationships with other people, This was a big obstacle for me to get over. I kept asking myself why the author would do this. It made me like both Tyler and Jasmine less and less for how they treated their partners.<br />
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It was a fun read I probably liked it more because it was set in New England. That got a star alone for me.sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-62891932559961911062020-06-18T04:54:00.000-07:002020-06-18T04:54:28.761-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I sigh as I sip the last of my cold, burnt gas station coffee. This is a fresh start, even in an old world full of familiar faces. Besides, it’s been more than a decade since I last roamed the halls of any school here. Those painful years and cruel people are far behind me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is the USA Today bestselling author of 17 books, including the Causal Enchantment, Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, and The Simple Wild. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, First for Women, and Publisher's Weekly. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance 2013 for TEN TINY BREATHS and Best Romance 2018 for THE SIMPLE WILD. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages.</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">I am a huge K.A. Tucker fan. I liked this book. It was different than her other ones. It is a second chance romance book, with a little twist. Scarlet and Shane dated one summer in high school. High school is not the best time, and when you add it it that Scarlet's mom likes a good scandal inkling her, it makes high school down right impossible. So, Scarlet hightailed it out if town as soon as she could. Her mom and Shane opening the door for her exit. </b><br />
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I know my opinion is not going to be popular, but I just didn't love it. And I am a fan of Emma Scott's other books.sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-60588679716945642452020-06-16T14:48:00.000-07:002020-06-16T14:48:23.121-07:00<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s how her brother used to sing it when we were kids—a simple ploy to get under my skin and make me stick my fist in his face—but man oh man, did he get the order wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One night of “kissing” in New York catapulted us straight to the pregnancy portion of the song—surprise!—and now I have to figure out how to carry out the whole melody in reverse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But our situation is far more problematic than just a simple twist of nursery rhyme lyrics. Before our night together, Raquel Weaver was the best-known good girl in Hollywood—a twenty-nine-year-old sexpot virgin whom the world adored </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">watched like a hawk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Obviously, the consequences of that kind of reputation don’t just go away. Add in pregnancy hormones, the media, a fake fiancé, and a selfish manager, and you have the short list of my problems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s what my mom always said, but I have to admit, until today, I never paid it much attention. As a kid, I spilled shit all the time. Milk. Juice. Water. If it was liquid, I was splattering it all over fucking creation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Our mop got a lot of action, sure, but every time, my mom would simply laugh. Not a little, demure giggle, but big, uproarious belly laughing. Ellie Hughes thought life was made for living, and she’d be damned if she let me dwell in the valleys. Hell, maybe that’s why I was always wreaking havoc on all of our flooring—my accidents were a precursor to something upbeat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway, I haven’t thought much about all those puddles of laughter in a long time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hello, Today!,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the syndicated fluff show during the eight o’clock hour on TBC, prattles on about the perfect Christmas breakfast for a family of four while an obnoxious elf bounces around in the background. I roll my eyes as some celebrity—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">fuck if I know who it is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—pretends to know how to make frittatas and turn my eyes back to the paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Growing up, television was forbidden fruit in my childhood home. My hard-ass of a dad thought it was more important to read the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wall Street Journal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and understand the stock market than watch what he called </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">drivel</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. He was one of those top 1% people, and his power-wealthy position in life included uber-rich hedge funds, strategic million-dollar stock market swing trades, and a money-hungry mind-set.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The only time the one television—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m serious, one fucking TV</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—in our home was actually used, it revolved around big news conglomerates and State of the Union addresses by current presidents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">My morning routine normally synchronizes beautifully for an all-out news download before heading to the office. But today, because of a late dinner meeting last night and too many Christmas-themed cocktails that have nothing to do with the holly-sprig adorned ones on TV, I’m running behind schedule.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The great news is, as CFO of one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, I’m actually allowed to do that on occasion without getting docked on my time card. In fact, I haven’t seen an actual time card in ages. The only punching I do is at Tommy John’s Kickboxing on Wednesdays in a basement studio all the way over on 75th and Broadway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">In the interest of full punching disclosure: I suck at it. Mohammad Ali in training, I am not. But flab is real, friends, even for the studly men in your life, and punching a bag with little to no precision keeps the excess weight off me. In layman’s terms, it keeps the ladies from grabbing on to anything other than muscle in bed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Scratch that last line. They grab my dick; I didn’t mean to make it sound like they don’t. There’s actually more penile touching than any other kind of touching in the cottony comfort of my sheets, and I’m very good at touching the ladies, in turn, with my mouth </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> penis. In fact, when my dick hears the words </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">dick pic, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">it asks for photo credit because it was most certainly the one </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">taking</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the picture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">What I meant to imply was that they don’t grab on to a beer gut—and trust me, if I didn’t work out, they would. I love beer and chicken wings, and I indulge in them both on way too many occasions to maintain some kind of quota weight “naturally.” If it weren’t for all the strenuous, practically nightly kickboxing workouts, if I were a woman in the public eye, I would be a constant ludicrous headline for my “fluctuating waistline.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">My cell vibrates across the table, and I snag it off the glass surface to see </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incoming Call Cap</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> flashing on the screen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Harrison, you sly motherfucker, those stock tips you gave me last quarter have my portfolio growing green like I’m a damn cannabis farmer.” He forgoes a greeting and dives straight into what is most likely his selfish needs. “Should I be concerned you’re getting insider info?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Wow, it’s so great to hear from you too, bud.” I smirk and lick my finger to get traction on the thin paper and flip through the pages until I get to yesterday’s closing data for the Dow Jones and S&P 500. Quickly, I scan through the numbers. It’s only one week away from Christmas and a few weeks away from New Years’, and this month’s upward trend appears fairly optimistic for avoiding a choppy close to the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yesterday, HawCom was up five-fucking-percent. Seriously, dude, are you dragging me and my father’s company into some illegal bullshit?” he asks, and I look away from my newspaper to roll my eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">HawCom is the company I’ve been with for the past decade, and it just so happens to be owned by Cap’s father, Jared Hawkins. Financial management for a company of its scale has been tricky these days with the ongoing uncertainty of the market, but all in all, HawCom’s performance numbers have been stable and steadily growing for the last nine quarters. As a major media company with “silent” ownership in some of the world’s most relevant technology companies, it’s not completely unexpected, but it’s certainly not guaranteed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Is it difficult being the most ridiculous bastard on the planet?” I retort. “Because, fuck, I can imagine it gets hard coming up with new ways to be this insane.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite this idiot’s stupid question, everything I do is by the book. No insider trading. No fraud. It all comes from a mind that’s been trained since childhood to be strategic and understand economic patterns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">choose</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the way my life plays out—all of us do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">It took me more than three busy, painful decades and the loss of both parents to figure that out, but now that I have, the freedom in it is impressive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The truth is, until we die, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">all of us</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> get to choose our own destiny—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“I swear to God,” Cap grumbles. “I will end you if I wind up in some kind of high-security prison for stock fraud.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I laugh at the absurdity. “I help you grow your portfolio—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">without commission, mind you</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—and you’re threatening murder?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Relax</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” I snort. “The only thing illegal about the stock tips I gave you was the fact that I handed them to you on a silver-fucking-platter </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">without</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> asking for anything in return.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Speaking of handing shit to me on a silver platter, let’s do that again,” he says, a cunning smile apparent in his voice. “Who is looking profitable for the first quarter of next year?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Because you love me. Because you don’t want to see me become a vagabond, living on the streets.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hannah settles into the chair closest to mine, a sketchpad in her hands. She flips through it, and I can see page after page of drawings, some of them so realistic I want to tell her to stop so I can really check them out, but I keep quiet. I’m not about to bring attention to myself again. I don’t want to get kicked out of the class.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I freaking need this class.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the time Sanborne is done talking and telling all of us to try our hand at drawing, I feel like I’m about to burst with my need to talk to Hannah. “You mad at me?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her head bent, she’s concentrating on the movements of her pencil across the paper. “What?” she asks distractedly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hannah.” She glances up at me when I say her name, those pretty blue eyes extra wide. “Are you mad at me?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She frowns. “Why do you think I’m mad at you?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the way you’ve avoided me since class started,” I tell her. “I was the last person you gave a sketchpad to.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Maybe I saved the best for last?” she says weakly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t smile. I don’t say a word. This usually works for me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Hannah’s quiet too. And stubborn. I can tell by the jut of her chin. The way she studies me, her expression blank.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Damn. She’s good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Are you only going to talk to me on Snap, but not at school?” I ask, my voice low.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She blinks rapidly, like she can’t believe what I just said. “No.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That’s what it seems like.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A sigh escapes her and she drops her head, refocusing on the sketchpad. “I don’t know how to talk to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“In person.” She looks up, then immediately looks away. “I’m an idiot.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A smile starts to curl my lips and I immediately tell myself to stop. “You’re not an idiot.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’re forgiven.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She lifts her head when I say that, her plump lips turned upward, and I’m hit with a sudden flash of wanting to kiss her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yeah. No. Not going to happen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Great, thanks so much,” she returns, then gestures toward my blank sketchpad. “You better get started. She’s going to want to check out your technique.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’ve got the best technique in this school, don’t you know?” I can’t help but say, and Hannah’s cheeks turn pink again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She’s really cute when she blushes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Don’t be a perv,” she says, grabbing my discarded pencil and pointing it toward me. “Start drawing.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Do I have to?” I slide my fingers onto hers, my thumb curling around hers before I pluck the pencil from her grip.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope it did. All I have to do is look at her and she affects me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whatever’s happening between us is confusing as hell.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I didn’t listen to a word the teacher said,” I tell Hannah, and she scoots her chair closer to mine, launching into the same lecture Sanborne did, almost word for word.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I listen to the rhythm of Hannah’s speech, the excited way she speaks. She loves art, I can tell, and she genuinely wants to help me. I stare at her mouth, the way it moves, how her front teeth protrude the slightest bit, giving her this sexy overbite. I’m fucking entranced, caught up in her spell and when she finishes lecturing me with the faintest smile on her face, all I can do is smile in return.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh. So you do smile,” she says softly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I turn it into a frown. “No I don’t.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She laughs, and I soak up the sound.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s just as pretty as I thought it would be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance. She’s also known as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, two kids, one dog, and four cats. When she’s not writing, she’s an assistant coach for her daughter’s high school cheer team, which is a two season sport. Meaning, she’s at practice with a bunch of teenage girls all the time. Or she’s at a football game. Or a basketball game. Maybe someday, she’ll even write about this experience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Connect with Monica:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/MonicaMurphyFB">http://bit.ly/MonicaMurphyFB</a></span></div>
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I LOVED the first book in this series! I LOVED Drew and Fable's kids getting their own books. I could not wait to read this one. Sadly, this one fell way short for me. I was so looking forward to Jake's story. I thought it was going to be amazing. To be honest, this was not what I was expecting. The story was boring and not anything like the first book. I am so delated. The book was choppy, and the ending left me questioning so much.sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-15904320637575276592020-06-04T06:36:00.000-07:002020-06-04T06:36:00.648-07:00<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Because there’s no such thing as love at first sight--right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’ve just confessed to having a crush on you and catfishing you,” Felicia said. “Should I leave?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But you really do love Russian authors, British rock, and Australian beaches?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I tried to mentally scroll through all of our conversations and ascribe them to the woman standing in front of me. It wasn’t hard to see that it made more sense than the woman I’d gone to dinner with. The real Savannah. Who had been sweet but not as sharp-witted. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You, Michael, love true crime novels, British rock as well, and Belize. You hate chewing gum, buffering on the internet, and people who are cruel to animals.” She set her wine down on the quartz countertop. “It was me, I swear, and everything I wrote was the truth.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I studied her. She looked sincere. I’d really enjoyed talking to her and she clearly remembered our exchanges even though it had been a month back. They’d meant something to her, like they had to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">She tilted her head and gave me a small, but very sexy smile. “Oh, really? I owe you that?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Excellent.” She really was gorgeous. She was wearing a red sweater that contrasted with her dark hair and showed off a slim build. I could definitely imagine kissing her and more. “How does Thursday sound?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No, I don’t. And I don’t have time for games.” I’d already wasted a decade of my life focusing on my career only. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I wanted a relationship again. I wanted to be married, to wake up next to a woman who wanted to share her life with me. Over the years of being single I’d had a few hookups and a couple of women who had wanted a friends-with-benefits scenario and that had been perfect for me at the time. But now I wanted to know a woman inside and out, to love every inch of her, to have the luxury of being able to touch her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ironic, really. I wanted everything all at once as usual. It was how I’d been successful in my career. Go for it. Grab what I wanted by the balls. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I set my glass down and reached out and took her glass from her and set it next to mine. I slid my hand into her dark, straight hair. “You’re a very beautiful woman, Felicia. I’ve enjoyed talking to you, you little catfisher.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has since written over seventy-five novels and novellas in the romance and mystery genres. Erin has a special weakness for high-heeled boots, martinis, and Frank Sinatra. She lives with her renovation-addicted husband (he built her a bar, so it’s all good!) and their blended family of kids and rescue dogs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I swallowed hard. “How about the rest of your life? All the amazing things you’re going to do and be? Maybe you can’t see them yet, but I can.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I smiled. “Maybe no one ever bothered to look beyond the surface—I mean, you’re Tyler Shaw. The surface is pretty nice to look at.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He kissed me hard then, and deep, his tongue penetrating my lips, his hands sliding into my hair. The kiss grew hotter as he moved me backward toward the bed, shoving his pants down, and lifting me onto the sheets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“God, April,” he whispered as his mouth traveled down my throat and his hands roamed over my skin. “I want you so much. I want you so much it scares me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why?” I arched beneath his lips and tongue and teeth and palms and fingers as they moved over my body. I put my hands in his hair. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Because I keep imagining this life with you, this life full of things I’ve never wanted before.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What kinds of things?” As much as I loved his dirty mouth, his sweet words were just as thrilling, and I wanted to hear them all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I want to share a bed with you every night. And wake up to you every morning. I want to make breakfast for you, see you in the stands at Central High baseball games, reach all the stuff in the high cupboards in the kitchen. I want to be the one you come home to.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But what if I fuck it up?” He kissed his way up the center of my chest and braced himself above me. “What if I’m not good at it? What if I don’t deserve it?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tyler.” I took his face in my hands. “You deserve it. Do you hear me? You deserve to be loved the way I’m going to love you.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then his mouth was crushing mine and we were pressed chest to chest, rolling sideways with our arms and legs tangled as we tried to get under each other’s skin. He left my side only for the twenty seconds it took to put a condom on, and then he was back, easing into my body. When he was buried deep, he stopped and looked down at me. “I don’t know what the second act of my life is going to look like, but I know you’re the best part of it.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tell me again, I wanted to say, even as his mouth possessed mine once more and he began rocking into me with deep, steady strokes. Let me hear those words again, because they meant I didn’t have to be alone anymore. They meant the risk was worth it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Melanie is the author of the CLOVERLEIGH FARMS series, the ONE & ONLY series, AFTER WE FALL series, the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.</span></span></div>
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I love the Cloverleigh Farms Family. This one was April and Tyler's story. A chance at love for the first time. They grew up together, being just friends. Then one night became more. But Tyler left to play professional baseball and April went to college. They shared more than a night together.<br />
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Now, Tyler is back for his sister's wedding. April is in charge of the wedding at her family's farm. A second chance at the life they could have had is there for the taking. But, there is many roadblocks that could stop them.<br />
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I am a fan of JD Hollyfield's books. They are funny and witty. I liked Chicks, Man. It was ok. Not my favorite of all her books. Something didn't click with me. To be honest, it felt a little forced. I was expecting a rom com, maybe because that is what the blurb portrayed, but in reality it was more of a mystery and serious. It was a who done it type of book. I wished it stayed funny. The book started off good, but then split into a whole other book. It sort of felt like it was 2 books mashed into one.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What everyone seemed to miss about Jax was the splashes of light in his eyes. The random acts of kindness he performed when no one was watching. The way he made me smile and laugh.</span></span></div>
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Another fantastic book by Brittany C Cherry. You have to be I the right place to read one of her stories. You know it is going to be an emotional run, and have to be ready for what is about to happen.<br />
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Jax and Kennedy knew each other once upon a time from when they were kids and went to camp together. Jax had a rough life from since he was young. Kennedy had a rough in adulthood. Both are trying to overcome grief. When they end up neighbors, fate intercedes and healing commends.<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">The squawking erupts again nearby and saves me. There are no<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Like, are there chicken police? Because we might need the<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I drift directly behind Tripp while we approach the noise,<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"A time like this? You mean a random Tuesday night at a<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Oh, god, did you inhale a feather? Is that how this<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Lila. Ducks. <i>Ducks</i>. Not chickens. It's<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif=""><i>Duck penis</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Oh my god. Duck penis. <i>Duck penis should not look<br />
like that</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Tripp's bent double laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Where's security?" I demand. "Hello?<br />
Security? <i>Security?</i> I'll give whoever removes this duck a<br />
ten-thousand-dollar bonus. Right now."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">No one comes running for ten grand, because <i>no one<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">The squawking. It's a cry for help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"It's nature," Tripp says. He's wiping his eyes<br />
now, he's laughing so hard. "Give 'em a few. They'll finish up."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">The girl duck is racing back and forth under the bench.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">The boy duck is chasing her <i>with that thing</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">And I am <i>not</i> having it. "Shoo. <i>Shoo!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Lila!" Tripp calls, but I'm already gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Flapping my arms. Yelling. Charging the dugout and the<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Why are they even here? There's no pond here. Winter's<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">And instead, they're ruining the sanctity of my ballpark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Shoo!" I yell again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I hit the stairs down to the long covered bench, and the boy<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">He turns, pointing <i>that thing</i> at me, flaps<br />
his wings, and gets this evil glint in his eyes that means I really should've<br />
thought about what I was doing before I came in here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Woo her <i>nicely</i>," I snap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">He squawks—no, <i>quacks</i> at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Crap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I need to go back to kindergarten to learn my animal sounds<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"And <i>put that thing away!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Lila." Tripp's laughing so hard he's wheezing. He<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"I'd let it be if he wasn't attacking her."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Maybe that's how ducks have sex."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"<i>Then maybe ducks shouldn't exist</i>."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"<i>QQQUUUUAAAACCCCCKKKKK!</i>" the boy duck<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">It's like a <i>Braveheart</i> yell, and I realize<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I shouldn't be asking <i>why is the duck assaulting the<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I should be asking <i>what have humans previously done<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">It charges, wings flapping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">I scream and take off running. Tripp mutters a<br />
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dugout," he shouts, pointing to the dugout on the third base side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">Another light flashes up in the stands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Security!" I yell. "Arrest the duck! <i>Arrest<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">It's gaining on us. Quacking louder. And it can fly. <i>It<br />
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">It's going to swoop over us, poop on our heads, and whack us<br />
with that—that—that mutant <i>penis</i> and then scoop us up in its<br />
talons, and—"<i>Aaah!</i> It got me. <i>It got me!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">It <i>bit me on the butt</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span arial="" font-size:="" helvetica="" large="" sans-serif="">"Don't fuck with nature," Tripp grunts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I woke up with a start, sitting up in panic. There was drool in the corner of my mouth. Why was I in bed? Where was my son?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I remembered almost immediately that Maddox had arrived and had told me to take a power nap. Right. Geez. I slowed down in the hallway, putting my hand onto my chest to take a deep breath and calm down. Sully was fine. He was with Maddox. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But when I went into the living room, they weren’t there. I realized the bathroom door was closed and the shower was running. Hold on. If Maddox was in the shower, where was Sully? Was he lying on my bathroom floor, which I had to admit, hadn’t been cleaned recently? The thought of my child rolling around on that cold, damp germ-riddled floor had me opening the bathroom door to rescue him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My panic kicked into high gear again, and without hesitating, I ripped back the shower curtain to demand Maddox explain where the hell my child was. The words died on my tongue. Because Sully was in the shower with Maddox, looking pink and chubby and delighted, hand out in front of him to catch the water as he rested comfortably on Maddox’s hip. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His head was under the water, body turned toward me so Sullivan was out of the direct line of the stream. Which meant I could see every single full-frontal inch of Maddox. He was hard. Everywhere. Muscles on muscles, decorated with tattoos over a good fifty percent of his incredible body. Incredible and firm body. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hey, is everything okay?” he asked, pulling me out of my dumbfounded stupor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I yanked my gaze back to his face, mortified. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You didn’t sleep very long,” he said when I just stared at him. He didn’t look even remotely uncomfortable with the fact that he was standing under a stream of hot water totally naked in front of me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, I pried my tongue off of the roof of my mouth. “I’m sorry, oh my God. I didn’t mean to…” I gestured to his body. “I just woke up and I didn’t know where Sully was and I freaked out. I’m not used to having help…” I trailed off, pressing my lips shut. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maddox just gave me a grin. “Not a problem. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. I should have told you I wanted a shower.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Grab a towel before you take him,” Maddox said. “He’s slippery.” He looked down at Sully and bounced him on his hip a little. “Aren’t you, little man?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now that my eyes were studiously focused above the waist, and I’d dragged my sex-deprived mind out of the gutter, I was amazed at how at ease Maddox was with my son. He’d been made to hold a baby, and as I reached for a towel, I felt a yearning for a father for Sully for the first time ever. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Towel in hand I got as close as was necessary to take Sully safely without touching any of Maddox’s naked body. My cheeks were hot. “Maybe I can take a shower after you,” I said. “I think I’m on day three without one.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You could hop in now,” he said. “There’s room.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maddox said it like it was totally normal. Like he wasn’t naked in front of a woman who’d never seen him naked before. Like he had seen </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">me</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">naked before, which he most definitely hadn’t. Like we were a couple with a baby and not old friends, if you could even really say that. It wasn’t like I </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knew</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maddox. We’d never talked about anything real. He’d just always been around our house with Steven. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This new dynamic was bizarre for me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why are you teasing me?” I asked, genuinely curious. And again, no filter. “It was always the other way around. I teased you because I was older.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His eyebrows shot up as I took Sully from him and wrapped him fully in the towel. “Am I teasing you? Is that what I’m doing?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Well. Yes. Aren’t you?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He put his head under the water and ran his hand over it. A few water drops arched out and landed on my arm. So much wet skin. Everywhere, just skin and wet. Lord, I was losing it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was flirting, not teasing. There is a difference.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That befuddled me. “Why?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Because you’re an attractive woman and I’m a normal guy who likes to flirt with women. Or maybe I’m just being friendly.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I backed up, needing space. The room was warm and humid and I was having a very difficult time not looking where I shouldn’t look. “This arrangement isn’t going to work if you do that. Say suggestive things all the time.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Why? It’s not a big deal.” Maddox stared at me with those dark eyes. Intently. “Is it?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the hell was he really asking me? I had no idea. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was flustered and I took another step backward. “Maddy. Stop. You’re barely out of high school and I’m a mother. You’re going to be my nanny. We have to be professional. Maybe that’s not the right word, but you know what I mean. Friends who are helping each other. Platonic friends. Not </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">flirty</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You’re like a little brother to me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The look he gave me was smoldering. His nostrils flared. His shoulders tensed. He paused with the bottle of shampoo in his hand. “Sure,” he said, his casual voice completely at odds with the intensity of his expression. “Whatever you want, Savannah. I promise not to flirt with you.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Then he grabbed the curtain and pulled it shut, blocking him from my view. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good. Great. Perfect. Glad we had established boundaries. That was the way it needed to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I had no business behaving in any other way than as a big sister to Maddox. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">So why did I feel so disappointed? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because I didn’t look at him and see a kid brother anymore. I hadn’t known him in years and he was different now. It was terrifying. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was an eternal optimist. I believed in a happily ever after. I could watch romantic comedies for seventy-two hours straight. I loved </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">love</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My friends all told me I was too quick to overlook red flags and to give people second chances. The first was probably accurate. The second I stood by. Everyone deserves a second chance. But my bullshit meter was definitely broken. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sully’s father had looked great on paper. A contracts lawyer. Apartment in SoHo. Wealthy parents who had given him a private school education in Manhattan. He’d said he was interested in a relationship. In leaving behind his playboy twenties and settling down into something “real” since he had turned thirty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I had expected him to be shocked and not entirely thrilled with the news. I had not expected him to be livid. When I had told him I was having the baby, he’d punched a hole in the wall, terrifying me. He’d said terrible things, accused me of entrapment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just me getting the hell out of there and vowing to stay the hell away from Adam. It was probably the first time I would not have given someone a second chance. Not that he’d wanted one, but my concern had shifted from my own personal feelings to concern for my unborn baby. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laying Sully on my bed, I rubbed his soft skin with the towel and felt my heart swell with love for him. He was perfection even if his sperm donor had been, well, not so great. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moving quickly before Sully objected, I got a diaper on him and a clean onesie. Then little khakis and a blue sweater. The fact that they made khakis for six-month-old babies gave me a happiness I couldn’t even express. Could anything on the planet be cuter? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I frowned. Maddox was standing there in his towel. “What do you think he should wear, a skull and crossbones? He’s six months old.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That or maybe a puppy T-shirt or something. What you have on him now is what my grandfather wears to church.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Offended, I wanted to exit my bedroom, but he was blocking the door. “You have a lot of opinions for someone who isn’t a parent. I’m the fashion expert, remember? I can handle dressing a baby. My baby.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He held his hands up, nearly giving me a heart attack when his towel slipped. He grabbed it before it dropped to the floor. “Sorry. I was just teasing. I would never judge you on how you parent. I just thought since we’re friends, we can be cool with each other.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">That flustered me. I had really thought this was going to be a lot easier. More comfortable. But Maddox was confusing me. “I guess that’s fair,” I said, because I didn’t know what else to say. “I did used to tease you a lot when you were a kid, like I said before.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He was leaning on the doorframe, showing no signs of moving or getting dressed or even putting the towel back in place. He was just holding it in front of his junk, but his hips were exposed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My shoulders relaxed. I felt a warmth for him that was more familiar territory. Maddox had been a quiet kid, Steven his primary friend. I had felt sorry for him because he’d lived over a restaurant in downtown Stroudsburg while the rest of us in our school lived in suburban houses. His mother had been a waitress, very young, a MILF before the term had existed. Guys had always been catcalling her and flirting with her and she’d been sassy, flipping them off and hurtling wisecracks back. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Holy cow, his mother was only thirteen years older than me? That would have made her fifteen when he was born. Having been raising Sully on my own for six months at my age, I had a whole new respect for his mother. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The kids are all mostly normal, mostly not assholes.” There was warmth and pride in his voice. “Mike is great, too. I never thought I wanted a stepfather but he’s an alright guy. He’s the one who got me interested in ink. And motorcycles.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His stepfather owned an auto body shop back home and he’d seemed successful, moving Maddox and his mother into a colonial before they started producing children one after the other. They were a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">cool</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">family, with artistic children, and yes, skull and crossbones on their clothes. In comparison, my family had been very traditional. My mother was a teacher, my father an accountant. There was a lot of khaki and beige in our house. I was comfortable with beige. I wanted a colonial in neutral paint colors someday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enticing Liam, an all new stand-alone contemporary romance by </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author Kristen Proby.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Princess Eleanor has had it up to her royal eyeballs. She’s surrounded by </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">suitable</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> men, each more rude and obnoxious than the last. None of them are worthy of her heart—not to mention her virginity. So what’s a girl to do? Flee to Montana to stay with her brother, lay low, and avoid both the media and the men, that’s what.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liam Cunningham is the head of security in Montana for the royal family. For a man who has seen the worst of human nature in the Army, being in Cunningham Falls is a balm to his tattered soul. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But when Ellie proposes the idea of Liam being her sex coach, how can he resist?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> She’s the sexiest damn thing I’ve ever seen in my whole godforsaken life. Even with the tousled hair and smeared makeup. And in that barely-there outfit, it’s taking all the strength in me not to reach out and touch her soft skin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“No.” She holds up a hand and lifts her head so she can level me with narrowed blue eyes. “We’re talking about sex and nakedness. I think you can call me Ellie. Not Your Highness or Princess or Eleanor.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Ellie.” I clear my throat. “You don’t really want what you’re asking.” She smirks and pulls a knee up to her chest. For protection or because of nervousness, I’m not sure. “Because I’m young, and I don’t know my own mind?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This is a trick question. “No, because you don’t know me, and I’m telling you, I’m not the man who should be teaching you about these things. You should find someone kinder, softer. Gentler.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Well, that sounds bloody boring,” she counters and then tips her head to the side. “I may be inexperienced, but I’m not stupid, Liam. I’m old enough to know myself and what I want.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> She licks her lips, and it’s almost my undoing. Ellie has the kind of lips you don’t just want to kiss. You want to explore them. Bite. Sink in and live there for a few good hours because the glories that a man is sure to discover and experience are endless. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Her curves turn me inside out. Her hair is thick and begs to be twisted around my fingers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> And that view I got of her bare back last night kept me up into the wee hours of the morning with a hard-on that rivaled granite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">But I’m not right for her. That I know for sure. I’ve seen too much. Done horrible things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristen was born and raised in a small resort town in her beloved Montana. In her mid-twenties, she decided to stretch her wings and move to the Pacific Northwest, where she made her home for more than a dozen years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two cats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-kerning: none;">I love Kristen Proby's stories. I think I have read all her books. I am a fan royal books. There seem to be a lot of those lately. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Princess Eleanor is inning away from one thing and into the arms of </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">Liam Cunningham is the head of security in Montana</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818;"> for her family. There has always been a spark between the 2 and now that they are in the same place together, things heat up. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818;">Because Liam is security detail for Eleanor and her family, he is trying to keep her at arm's </span></span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">length. The chemistry is strong and evident between both. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enjoyed this one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><strong>Release Date: February 17th</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Rock Bottom</b><b><i>, a standalone romance in</i></b><b><i> the Dawson Family Series featuring Dean Dawson</i></b><b><i> by </i></b><b>New York Times</b><b><i> & </i></b><b>USA Today</b><b><i> bestselling author Emily Goodwin.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rory’s life is a mess. After getting dumped by her boyfriend, let go from her job, and losing her apartment, she takes a chance on a new job in a new town. Things can’t get any worse, right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When the foundation of Dean Dawson’s life crumbles to pieces at his feet, he swears off relationships of any kind and goes back to a life of bachelorhood, loving and leaving different women every night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After dodging what could possibly be the world’s worst blind date, Rory finds herself face to face with Dean—a temptation she knows she should avoid. It’s just one night, and there’s no harm in having a little fun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They say when you hit rock bottom the only way to go is up, but nothing is ever that simple.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Must be nice to have family members who own a bar and a bakery.” I inch a little closer. “My brother owns his own vet clinic. I get a family discount on wormer.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Dean laughs, and it rumbles right through me. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a laugh I can describe as sexy before, but everything about this man is turning me on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “It is nice getting free food and drinks.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I bet. Though I’d probably weigh five hundred pounds after a month of all that free food.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Dean grabs a menu and hands it to me. “The house pretzel with cheese is better than the fries.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “That does sound good. It’s not too late to order food?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> He shakes his head. “The kitchen is open until ten.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Good. I feel bad when it’s way too close to closing time.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “That’s very considerate of you.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I worked in retail in college.” I give the menu one more glance and decide on the soft pretzel and cheese. “It was irritating when people came in right before closing.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I try not to go anywhere if it’s within fifteen minutes of closing, unless it’s my sister-in-law’s bakery. Then I’ll go in a minute before and order whatever takes the longest to make.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I’m kidding,” he says. “And she’d probably tell me to get the fuck out anyway.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Oh, I would too.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Shit. I have no idea of the names of any Canadian colleges. “The, uh, Central University of…of…” Canada is divided into territories, right? “…of the Northern Territory.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Oh my fucking gosh. If I were to drop dead right now, the universe would probably be doing me a favor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “It’s a small school. Private too. And girls only.” Just pick up the shovel, Rory, you’re doing a good job digging yourself a hole to crawl in. “Do you come here often?” I blurt, needing to change the subject.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “If I say yes it makes me sound pathetic, but since my brothers own the place, we all come here to hang out.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emily Goodwin is the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bestselling author of over a dozen of romantic titles. Emily writes the kind of books she likes to read, and is a sucker for a swoon-worthy bad boy and happily ever afters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> I love Emily Goodwin's books, they seem to have just the right angst and romance to peak my interested every sing time. Rock Bottom was Dean and Rory's story (I see what you did there Emily.... Rory and DEAN!!!!!!) Dean is coming off a divorce from a cheating spouse and Rory seems to be unlucky in love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That would be a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">hell </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">yes.” He took my hand and pulled me to my feet. “Turn around.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was totally bare before him—stretch marks, C-section scar, less-than-perky breasts and all. Unlike many of my friends, I’d never had surgery to restore my post-baby body to its former tight, bouncy, unmarked state. Now I was kind of wishing I had.</span></span></div>
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I have been a Melanie Halrow fan for a while. Her books just click with me. Her writing is real and raw. This book is the realist. Divorced and embarrassed over her public meltdown. Sylvia heads home with her 2 kids to take charge of her life. She is back with her family and tying to raise her kids and start over.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are that toxic high school couple you hear about, the one you witness in the hallway as they avoid each other. You laugh at them in class when they’re forced to work together, their gazes full of hatred. We are the couple you gossip about when they win homecoming prince and princess their sophomore year…</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “A truce hug then? Come on.” He lets go of the door handle and faces me fully, stretching his arms out in invitation. “I’ll leave you alone after this, okay? I promise.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This could be the last time I hug him. This entire encounter has been weird. Confusing. We’re a mess. We would never work, and us going ’round and ’round in circles tonight just proves that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> So what’s the harm in getting one last hug from Ash? It’s just a hug. A brief moment of bodily contact and then I’ll send him away. He won’t bug me again. He’ll get over his so-called feelings for me. He’ll give his heart to someone else or even better, he’ll discover he actually has one, and he’ll forget all about me. He’ll give it to someone else, and he’ll finally leave me alone forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> He holds me with a desperation, almost as if he’s afraid to let me go, and when I lift my head, tilting it back so I can stare into his eyes, I find he’s already watching me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Stop talking.” He presses two fingers to my lips, silencing me. When he’s seemingly assured I won’t speak, he lightens the pressure, gently caressing my lips. Back and forth. Making me tingle.</span></span></div>
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“You don’t even know what you’re asking for, princess.”</div>
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She let go of a soft, cynical laugh. “I’m no princess, Leif.”</div>
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Need and lust and gluttony.</div>
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“Then why am I the one being condemned?”</div>
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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.</div>
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If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then You Happened, an all-new </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">small town stand-alone romance</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author K. Bromberg, is available now!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I was only supposed to be there six months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">They say it’s better to have loved and lost, then not to have loved at all. Does that hold true when the love is based on a lie to begin with?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just face it, Knox. You’re head over heels in love with me.” Jack finally smiles, dimple winking and those eyes lighting up as he takes a step toward me, holding the scoop to his chest. “You can’t be near me because you want me, and you can’t talk to me because you get all flustered and tongue-tied.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He places the scoop in my hand but doesn’t let it go when I try to take it. “It’d be much easier and a whole lot less distracting if I could say the same of you.” He lets go of the scoop and dips the tip of his hat in an aw-shucks kind of way. “But I’m not one to lie.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His eyes darken and then narrow. “Just like you’re the woman who keeps living her privileged life . . . fiddling while Rome burns down around her?” he counters, making me want to scream that he knows nothing about me or how I live or what I’ve been through for the last year. A small part of me is shouting about how that was his point, but I tell the voice to shut up. “And if by good looks and smooth words, you’re implying I’m like Fletcher, I suggest you not infer that again.” That muscle in his jaw feathers in contempt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He twists his lips and stares at me in a way that feels like he is seeing right through me. It’s unnerving and unsettling, and I force myself not to look away because his silence is telling me that maybe he thinks I am. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since publishing her first book in 2013, Kristy has sold over one million copies of her books across sixteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by Passionflix with the first movie slated to release in the summer of 2018.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Series: Cupids #3</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author: Lila Monroe</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genre: Romantic Comedy</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Release Date: January 28, 2020</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it fate…. Or just the Romeo effect? Discover the hot and<br />
hilarious new stand-alone romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author,<br />
Lila Monroe!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seth Harding is the King of Meet-Cutes. If you get trapped<br />
in an elevator with a handsome stranger, or stranded on a moonlit cruise with<br />
the man of your dreams, chances are, it’s not fate bringing the two of you<br />
together, it’s Seth somewhere, pulling the strings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At least, that’s what I find out, when someone hires Seth to<br />
help win <i>my</i> heart. It would be romantic… if he weren’t all<br />
wrong for me. And Mr Right…?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, he might just be the guy behind the scenes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, my faith in soulmates is hitting a major<br />
complication. Seth is cynical, and argumentative… and seriously irresistible.<br />
Soon, the sparks between us are impossible to ignore. But can this hopeful<br />
romantic really find love with a man who engineers happily-ever-afters for a<br />
living? And when all the tricks and tests are stripped away, what makes two<br />
people truly meant to be?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find out in the latest laugh-out-loud read from “The<br />
reigning queen of romantic comedy”, Lila Monroe! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cupids Series:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Cupids Anonymous<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. What’s Your Sign?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. The Romeo Effect<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. The Break-Up Artist (May 2020)</span></div></div></div><br />
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This was a miss more or less for me. I am wondering if it is because I have not read the other books in this series, but to be honest, I hard a real hard time getting into it.sassyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640850980585609754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008338645640678590.post-29104024641409378522020-01-28T09:04:00.001-08:002020-01-28T09:05:44.972-08:00<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>"Absolutely SWOON-WORTHY! Sweet and sexy and so romantic! Prepare to be swept away by Andrew and Grace!" - A.L. Jackson, </b><b><i>New York Times</i></b><b> bestselling author</b></span></h3></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>It was the only thing Andrew McPherson and Grace Morgan could afford.</b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">They promised they would never see each other again, but fate had other plans. Andrew’s entire life has been spent working toward one goal—to own the top advertising and public relations company in the world. He’s driven, ruthless when it comes to business, never letting anything stand in his way…until Grace.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grace has worked hard to build her advertising career. She’s fiercely talented and dedicated to her clients. Grace has no interest in getting involved with a man when she knows her focus should be on her career and paying off her mounting debt.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Excerpt</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a loud knock on the conference room door that startles both Jamie and me. She jumps up and opens the door, just as Eddie pops his head inside. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sorry to interrupt, ladies,” he starts. “We have the conference room reserved for a client meeting in five minutes.” </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I glance at my watch and see that it’s almost nine o’clock. Jamie and I have been in here for almost an hour. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Shit,” I mumble, grabbing my empty coffee cup. “I have to get to work.” </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Me too,” says Jamie, following me from the conference room back toward our desks. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I stop abruptly, causing Jamie to run into my backside when I see Drew standing in my cube, staring out my window over a cloudy, rainy Manhattan. His hands are shoved into his pockets and his dress shirt is rolled up to his forearms. Tan, muscular arms stick out from under that crisp dress shirt. Even casual, he looks like the powerhouse CEO that he is. My heart rate kicks up a notch at the sight of him. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Jamie nudges me forward, I clear my throat as I do my best to look unaffected by his presence. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mr. McPherson,” I acknowledge him, but don’t look at him. I slide into my desk chair and enter the password to my computer, bringing the screen back to life. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Good morning,” he says from behind me and I still keep my eyes trained on my computer. “And good morning, Jamie,” he says, acknowledging her. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I glance up at Jamie and see her smile at him knowingly. Dammit, Jamie. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Morning, Mr. McPherson. Busy weekend getting to know New York City?” she asks him with the kind of innocence only a skilled liar could pull off. I’m going to fucking kill her. I narrow my eyes at her and she winks at me. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I spin around in my chair to look at Drew, whose eyes jump back and forth between us, and I can see he’s picked up that I’ve filled her in. I hang my head in shame and shake my head. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was a wonderful weekend,” he tells her honestly. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Do anything exciting?” she asks, her tone snarky and her questions intruding. “Or anyone?” she says under her breath and I choke. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are you okay?” Drew asks me. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Fine,” I cough out, tossing a glare at Jamie, who giggles and slides into her desk chair. I pick up a pen off my desk and throw it at her. It hits her back. She bursts into laughter and Drew shakes his head in amusement at us. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He leans over my shoulder and whispers into my ear, “I missed you last night.” His warm breath causes me to shiver and catch my breath. “I didn’t like waking up and you not being there,” he continues, knowing the effect he has on me. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I shift in my chair and sit up straight, trying to drown out the throbbing that has started between my legs. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I spin slowly toward him and stop, his face mere inches from mine. “I slept remarkably well,” I tell him. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">He smiles. “Liar.” </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m not lying,” I whisper. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You are.” He brushes a knuckle over my top lip and my skin breaks out in goosebumps. “When you lie, your upper lip twitches.” Jesus Christ, this man has me all figured out. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I hold his gaze and my heart stammers in my chest. Looking at him, I can’t help but feel that I’ve missed him too. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’d like to meet with you later to go over a few things,” he says, standing up. “How does eleven thirty in my office sound?” </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sounds fine,” I muster out. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“See you then, Gracie.” </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drew saunters out of my cube and down the hallway. I can’t help it as my eyes follow him as he walks through the rows of cubes until he reaches his office. I notice Jamie watching him too before she spins around in her chair and faces me. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Holy fuck,” she hisses. “That man has it bad for you.” I look back at Drew’s office and watch the door close before I look at Jamie again. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I know.” And sadly, I have it just as bad for him. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><img alt="Rebecca Shea Profile Pic" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3198" height="300" src="https://cattyjanecom.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/rebecca-shea-profile-pic.jpg?w=600" width="300" /><b>About Rebecca Shea</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rebecca Shea is the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bestselling author of the Unbreakable series (Unbreakable, Undone, and Unforgiven), the Bound & Broken series (Broken by Lies and Bound by Lies) and two stand alone novels, Dare Me and Fault Lines. She has also co-written two books with her friend, A.L. Jackson, The Hollywood Chronicles: One Wild Night and One Wild Ride</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her family. From the time Rebecca could read she has had a passion for books. Rebecca spends her days working full-time and her nights writing, bringing stories to life. Born and raised in Minnesota, Rebecca moved to Arizona in 1999 to escape the bitter winters. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dream With Me, an </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">all-new standalone contemporary romance in the beloved With Me In Seattle Series</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bestselling Author Kristen Proby</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is LIVE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kane O’Callaghan knows what it is to have his work shown all over the world. His pieces are on display in palaces and museums, including the O’Callaghan Museum of Glass just outside of his beloved hometown of Seattle. Kane is a bit of a recluse, spending time on his farm alone and committed to his art. His life is full.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wandering through museums is Anastasia Montgomery’s favorite way to spend her time. Not only does art feed her soul, but it inspires her own art of designing wedding cakes. When her muse seems to be gone, she finds her again among the beauty in the museums of Seattle, and the O’Callaghan Museum of Glass is her favorite. She’s never met the artist, but he must be absolutely brilliant, if he can make such beautiful things out of glass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">But when she sees him again at a charity fundraiser, and ends up spending an incredible, unforgettable night with the mysterious glass smith, Anastasia finds herself thinking of Kane and little else, even her precious work. Will this relationship bloom into the romance of a lifetime, or will their dreams of success get in the way of true love?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This was another fast and light read by Kristin Proby. Another With me in Seattle book. I think I have read every book in this series. This story was Kane and Anastasia's story. It was a very quick insta love story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I must say, this was not my favorite in this series. There is a few reasons why. I am not a huge fan of insta love. This one was very quick and odd. I felt like something was missing because of this. Just wish there was more of a build up. </span><br />
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