tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88181291026842308382024-03-14T00:10:42.229-04:00Craves The AngstBook BlogCraves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.comBlogger2231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-36040445009150780892022-09-24T14:56:00.001-04:002022-09-24T14:56:14.048-04:00NEW RELEASE - ENTHRALL SHADOWS (Enthrall Sessions #10) by Vanessa Fewings Review:<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">NEW RELEASE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">ENTHRALL SHADOWS (Enthrall Sessions #10)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">by Vanessa Fewings</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTl2TEQl7-yFtVzA98VNdD5K-ArLCdw2QXQ1p_FBm84J8NLBDVNGyzm4fpuanhAC6xU-5yLYCTKb4nK_nlcWr3ecUFaFGL_iI_wCt0Yr643DOoC9SIo-OVwmEOrOoHKzyJzY2IH3YGJ6MG-P4MQtQWQjdcsQPDmjYHqyvPAVbt2SG7JDfpQQ9qX_9Bqg/s1620/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_Cover%20Image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTl2TEQl7-yFtVzA98VNdD5K-ArLCdw2QXQ1p_FBm84J8NLBDVNGyzm4fpuanhAC6xU-5yLYCTKb4nK_nlcWr3ecUFaFGL_iI_wCt0Yr643DOoC9SIo-OVwmEOrOoHKzyJzY2IH3YGJ6MG-P4MQtQWQjdcsQPDmjYHqyvPAVbt2SG7JDfpQQ9qX_9Bqg/w426-h640/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_Cover%20Image.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Henry Cole's novel is now live on</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Amazon Kindle Unlimited!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BOOK BLURB:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Henry delivers a storm of passion that only a Cole can summon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The enigmatic older brother to famous psychiatrist Cameron Cole, Henry is a charismatic and beautiful mystery. Head of the family empire. Powerful in business.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Devastating in bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Former Navy SEAL, scarred and tormented from fierce battles and broken hearts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The man has demons.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But they don’t frighten me. I crave him, even as I struggle to resist him.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s not until I find myself alone with Henry in the middle of the wilderness that I realize I’ve fallen irrevocably and hopelessly in love with this remarkable man.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The only problem—we come from different worlds. Society deems us an unthinkable match. As a dominatrix, I’m a dangerous scandal in the making.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">If anyone discovers our forbidden romance, lives will be destroyed. An empire will fall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ours is an impossible love.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Except if there’s one thing I’ve learned from my time at Enthrall, if you want to reach the brightest light, you have to delve deep into the darkest shadows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And the dark is my specialty.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ENTHRALL SHADOWS</b> is the hotly anticipated story of Cameron Cole’s older brother Henry Cole and premier dominatrix Lotte Chamberlain.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">PURCHASE NOW:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09YKJL3B9/">Amazon US</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enthrall-Shadows-Sessions-Book-10-ebook/dp/B09YKJL3B9/">Amazon UK</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Enthrall-Shadows-Sessions-Book-10-ebook/dp/B09YKJL3B9/">Amazon CA</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Enthrall-Shadows-Sessions-Book-10-ebook/dp/B09YKJL3B9/">Amazon AUS</a></span></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHdV8_yu4TGYNsu43gnidsHlKh2PILMwY0xZVFIz-K96D-3QtTk4E2FEk5QQvdGg6aKGr57kYgnrMIeqs-V9fTbNWJfJmPW6XLKYtSs2zoVqV3uhxi2ABuOY6bnEDemRlRjkGG0nIwF54Nr4l3EkiqOIgogGkrYjhgon_umW6-EMCPJn_bExlM61D_A/s1080/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_teaser%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="719" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAHdV8_yu4TGYNsu43gnidsHlKh2PILMwY0xZVFIz-K96D-3QtTk4E2FEk5QQvdGg6aKGr57kYgnrMIeqs-V9fTbNWJfJmPW6XLKYtSs2zoVqV3uhxi2ABuOY6bnEDemRlRjkGG0nIwF54Nr4l3EkiqOIgogGkrYjhgon_umW6-EMCPJn_bExlM61D_A/w426-h640/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_teaser%201.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggRs8adA55jkU4CV6lMDPn6TJ2vKsplpHLm3We3MhwPNUlPx2J20zpnosf9CMXFBWEyzoVryYBERbOv4SIlzTZ2u2r6gDUeZi-NgLuyCK9vb6Quh36IZGmKdhGwS-C2kgYZiGtVFpdWxbGNmGSMtozrpN-SMy-paAJz94r6HvqWJPAEygxyBMBtV5UgQ/s552/Book%20Reviews%205%20Stars%20Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="552" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggRs8adA55jkU4CV6lMDPn6TJ2vKsplpHLm3We3MhwPNUlPx2J20zpnosf9CMXFBWEyzoVryYBERbOv4SIlzTZ2u2r6gDUeZi-NgLuyCK9vb6Quh36IZGmKdhGwS-C2kgYZiGtVFpdWxbGNmGSMtozrpN-SMy-paAJz94r6HvqWJPAEygxyBMBtV5UgQ/w400-h81/Book%20Reviews%205%20Stars%20Banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BOOK REVIEW:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">5 Stars!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Beautiful imagery, sexy, witty, adventurous... and utterly addicting. A must, MUST read!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>The Full Review:</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>ENTHRALL SHADOWS</b> was so well written, as all of <i>Vanessa Fewings</i> novels are. I love ALL of the <i>Enthrall Sessions </i>characters, but I was waiting patiently for Henry Cole! And wow, did we get him.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Henry Cole is a former Navy SEAL turned CEO of the reputed Cole Tea industry. He is haunted by a tumultuous past riddled with guilt and pain. He’s barely hanging on most days. When suddenly confronted with that very painful past in the most heartbreakingly cruel way possible, he needs an escape. So he finds himself trespassing into Chrysalis, the swanky BDSM club he knows his brother, Cameron Cole, has a part in.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There, he meets the stunningly beautiful premier dominatrix—Lotte Chamberlain. The attraction is instant. Sparks are ignited into a full-blown inferno. But they are from two very different worlds, and there’s no combining such disparate spheres. Or at least that’s what Henry thinks. They can’t seem to stay away from one another. The intense pull is magnetic. And contrary to what Henry thinks, he needs the formidable and unrelenting Lotte to help him along his journey into the past.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>Story/Characters...</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Since the moment Henry Cole appeared on canvas as a battle-worn warrior, he’s been a slow reveal, accentuating the lives of those around in this series. However, he remained a mystery. I was so excited to see where his story would take us. I wasn’t disappointed. On the contrary. I was intoxicated by his darkness and exhilarated by his charm. Having served and survived captivity in Afganastan, he suffered the worse kind of torture. His time there fundamentally changed him and left him with PTSD. I loved the way the author handled his strengths as well as his weaknesses. Henry is a true hero.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have always liked Lotte, but this book really explores who she is as a character—her solid morals and individualism. She’s confidently brazen, brilliant, and kind. There’s a reason she’s loved by all the characters in this series. She’s there for Henry in a way I don’t think anyone else could have been. She guides and helps him on his journey of rediscovery as he lays to rest old wounds and finds new love and a sense of peace he never expected. In return, Henry helps Lotte regain a part of herself stolen by a painful past of her own. In a genuine pride and prejudice story, they both lay down preconceptions and find an acceptance neither thought possible.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Henry and Lotte together... WOW! Their chemistry is off the charts hot, hot, HOT! Incendiary! I just loved them together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To add to the awesomeness of this book, we get visits from past characters and little insights into their continuing lives! Yay! And Cameron Cole... need I say more? He comes through once again. Ahh, I just love him!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><b>The Wrap Up:</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Told in duel POV’s, everything about this read is intelligent and good. It’s the best kind of adult fun, and is an exquisite addition to the <i>Enthrall Sessions</i> series! You won’t want to pass up!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>NOTE:</i> <b>ENTHRALL SHADOWS</b> is the tenth book in the Enthrall Sessions series, but the story is so well laid out and written that you won’t necessarily have to read the previous books to understand what’s happening. However, you should. ALL the books in this series are excellent! I honestly can’t get enough.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDvCom7tpj0lCwXkvLMgNZ3fCg6Wi1epAzjq1-Hyf9P-BxVs6zuJ8FHS6pBg7mLoMZ38I-W8F7VUsqxtJTgRE9qurC3EXE81c3Mfay73e15keWf7e0m2A993JGGV70fLFd54XOsI3BhoK8HLmc_nx30axEsKZz5_aEyEOImZIkAOy7FHZJpPhLAWv9A/s593/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_all%20book%20imgs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="593" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDvCom7tpj0lCwXkvLMgNZ3fCg6Wi1epAzjq1-Hyf9P-BxVs6zuJ8FHS6pBg7mLoMZ38I-W8F7VUsqxtJTgRE9qurC3EXE81c3Mfay73e15keWf7e0m2A993JGGV70fLFd54XOsI3BhoK8HLmc_nx30axEsKZz5_aEyEOImZIkAOy7FHZJpPhLAWv9A/w400-h301/Enthrall%20Shadows_Enthrall%20Sessions%2010_all%20book%20imgs.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></b></div></div><br />Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-40257148012842982752022-05-01T12:01:00.005-04:002022-05-01T12:01:47.097-04:00ENTHRALL ECSTASY (Enthrall Sessions #9) by Vanessa Fewings Review:<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjZEOlkerCAGS4eEFgLku81RjAyWVhMMCifU2cVpggArib306zW5vG3-rEsGyKodMsSv0bXIqsyQ6xf7Arjn13PVAAHzUi5dXPaPaFnGgGRsNNpff8sRm6tbsunCZtAgPxX8vZ4uCi2tQBlatN6dJLo67UPPddrKNWMLeNfpT3k-YiJCcKbVsuXu4D5Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjZEOlkerCAGS4eEFgLku81RjAyWVhMMCifU2cVpggArib306zW5vG3-rEsGyKodMsSv0bXIqsyQ6xf7Arjn13PVAAHzUi5dXPaPaFnGgGRsNNpff8sRm6tbsunCZtAgPxX8vZ4uCi2tQBlatN6dJLo67UPPddrKNWMLeNfpT3k-YiJCcKbVsuXu4D5Q=w472-h396" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>From USA Today Bestselling Author Vanessa Fewings comes the eagerly anticipated next novel in the celebrated romance series the ENTHRALL SESSIONS.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Cameron Cole’s trusted head of security Shay Gardner has someone in his sights: new submissive Rue Asher.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB3PWHIRZtV5U9K6r1t-wOvZQkRajQEg9vK7eOV7NGvRdQ3yQFtM0qXJNGRAJsxJqBcqk-k9FiQ8dTypYnQfYtYQyEY-934cMCSFtGMEk4cUK8JZZ2WypZ1F8NhQ2zbY0IMMrokuyVvHf4QWGn67smiWxD2PnK9NUKqsRYaiK1CLcqPafAyHW8ufGCfA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1080" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB3PWHIRZtV5U9K6r1t-wOvZQkRajQEg9vK7eOV7NGvRdQ3yQFtM0qXJNGRAJsxJqBcqk-k9FiQ8dTypYnQfYtYQyEY-934cMCSFtGMEk4cUK8JZZ2WypZ1F8NhQ2zbY0IMMrokuyVvHf4QWGn67smiWxD2PnK9NUKqsRYaiK1CLcqPafAyHW8ufGCfA=w368-h332" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BOOK BLURB:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s my sworn duty to protect her.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But I find myself craving not just her safety…but her love.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A love that comes with a price. I’m unable to resist her demands to become her Dom, but I fear she has no idea of the intense play I’m capable of.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I will take her beyond her limits. Beyond her imagination. I will reveal to her depths of pleasure she didn’t know was possible.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rue will soon call the secretive world of ENTHRALL her home.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For the answers lie in the ecstasy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">BUY LINKS:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">US: <a href="https://amzn.to/3LuwkXx">https://amzn.to/3LuwkXx</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">UK: <a href="https://amzn.to/3vsNaAj">https://amzn.to/3vsNaAj</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Aus: <a href="https://amzn.to/3Lw9KxA">https://amzn.to/3Lw9KxA</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CA: <a href="https://amzn.to/3OOzKX6">https://amzn.to/3OOzKX6</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">MY REVIEW:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>5 Stars!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In Short: ... <b>a brilliant addition to the Enthrall series ... an absolute must-read!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>This book was amazing in every way. The scenes were captivating, daring, and full of life. Vanessa Fewings really outdid herself with this one!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The <i>ENTHRALL</i> series is one of my all-time favorites. I’ve done so many rereads, that I’ve lost count. Each and every book brings something new to the storyline, yet holds a familiar and comforting enticement. I’ve enjoyed each book in this line immensely, and <b>Enthrall Ecstasy</b> is one more book to add to the “favorites” lineup.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Enthrall Ecstasy</b> starts out with Shay Gardner, head of security at Enthrall, intervening in a situation involving a newly trained sub, Rue Asher. She seems to have gotten herself in over her head and an acquaintance has asked Shay to step in and get her out. The moment Shay sees Rue, he knows she’s a bewitching temptation he has to stay away from. But when Rue sees Shay, she knows she’s found “the one” - her master - and she’s going to put everything into taming the beast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Shay has been featured in other <i>ENTHRALL </i>books and he was always a curiosity to me. He was intriguing and mysterious and I was fascinated by all his dark corners. I really wanted to get to know more about him and see his mysteries revealed. <i>Vanessa Fewings</i> delivers his story beautifully! She fleshed out his characters so wonderfully in this book. He was captivating and alluring and dangerously delicious. Oh, how I loved getting to know him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And he met his perfect match. I thoroughly enjoyed Rue as well. She was a spitfire and I loved how vulnerable yet tough she was. She was savvy and unique, and she had gumption - which she desperately needed in order to break through to Shay. I enjoyed getting to know her. All her desires and idiosyncrasy were riveting to read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Shay and Rue were enchanting together and their chemistry was supremely HOT! They had such passion and intensity! The lengths they went to for one another were awe-inspiring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Enthrall Ecstasy</b> is filled with excitement, eroticism, angsts, and a whole lot of fire! Shay and Rue’s chemistry induced those wonderful tummy flutters and butterflies I love so much. Theirs was a truly romantic story with a heavy dose of seduction and intrigue. The story flowed beautifully and passionately. I was entranced!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Now.. let’s talk about the returns! I admit. I did a few squeals. The author brings back all the Enthrall family in such a lovely, seamless way and as always, my absolute favorite - Cameron Cole - delivers miracles. I'm so awestruck every time this character steps onto canvas. He's so real and lifelike that I forget he's actually a character in a book! I always enjoyed the bromance between Cameron, Richard, and Shay, but it was front and center in this book and it filled me with the happies!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As I said, <b>Enthrall Ecstasy</b> is a brilliant addition to the <i>ENTHRALL</i> series, with a familiar backdrop and new designs. Everything about it had a "rush to finish" kind of feel. I HAD to keep reading. I needed to know what happened next. 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I was spellbound and utterly enjoyed everything about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An absolute must-read!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-81272790838138957452021-07-18T14:50:00.005-04:002021-07-18T14:50:35.941-04:00New Release and Review Post: THE RAVISHING by Vanessa Fewings and Ava Harrison is NOW LIVE!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6mOXYkyzCIE/YPR1GeXn4-I/AAAAAAAAzJw/KhuSuRjf3SUBNIqEjTycr27hJklmhV0dgCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/The%2BRavishing_Banner%2BArt%2B560_FINAL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6mOXYkyzCIE/YPR1GeXn4-I/AAAAAAAAzJw/KhuSuRjf3SUBNIqEjTycr27hJklmhV0dgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BRavishing_Banner%2BArt%2B560_FINAL.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE RAVISHING</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>by Vanessa Fewings & Ava Harrison</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>NOW LIVE!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bq2FfFUzLHE/YPR1LRRHlQI/AAAAAAAAzJ0/pcN6xWFJBnAQcbnR9AgE7FIWIt_gM6SOACLcBGAsYHQ/s840/The%2BRavishing_Cover%2BImage%2B560.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bq2FfFUzLHE/YPR1LRRHlQI/AAAAAAAAzJ0/pcN6xWFJBnAQcbnR9AgE7FIWIt_gM6SOACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BRavishing_Cover%2BImage%2B560.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>THE BLURB:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑎:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My father was ruthless.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cold. Calculated. Formidable.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Every decision. Every step. Every thought. Every breath he controlled.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I never thought anyone could despise him as much as I did.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was wrong. So wrong.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There was one person.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He wanted revenge. I was the willing pawn.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He was dangerous, beautiful, broken, and most of all a way to get back at my father.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But there’s one thing I didn’t count on . . .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Falling in love.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑢𝑠:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Stephen Glassman is my sworn enemy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And so, I felt no guilt as I took his most valuable possession.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">His darling daughter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anya’s suffering is my new favorite pastime.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My promise to kill her one day? Inevitable.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">She’s mine now. Mine to control. Mine to seduce. Mine to own.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Who knew revenge would be this sweet?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon US: <a href="https://shor.by/TheRavishingUS">https://shor.by/TheRavishingUS</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon UK: <a href="https://shor.by/TheRavishingUK">https://shor.by/TheRavishingUK</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon CA: <a href="https://shor.by/TheRavishingCA">https://shor.by/TheRavishingCA</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon AU: <a href="https://shor.by/TheRavishingAU">https://shor.by/TheRavishingAU</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Also Available on audio:</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Narrated by Connor Crais and Vanessa Edwin</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Audio US: <a href="https://shor.by/TRAudioUS">https://shor.by/TRAudioUS</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Audio UK: <a href="https://shor.by/TRAudioUK">https://shor.by/TRAudioUK</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hardcover: <a href="https://shor.by/TRHardcover">https://shor.by/TRHardcover</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paperback: <a href="https://shor.by/TRPaperback">https://shor.by/TRPaperback</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>THE REVIEW:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hv9R_IgttUY/YPR1tkqaq3I/AAAAAAAAzKE/zF8eHPyJedcj9MFj30yNNV-9QqCD6zQ1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s552/Book%2BReviews%2B5%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="552" height="81" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hv9R_IgttUY/YPR1tkqaq3I/AAAAAAAAzKE/zF8eHPyJedcj9MFj30yNNV-9QqCD6zQ1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h81/Book%2BReviews%2B5%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;">REVIEWERS NOTE: </span><i>This ARC was generously provided by the author(s)/publisher in exchange for an honest review.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>5 Stars!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In Short: <b>THIS WAS AMAZING!!! I loved this book from beginning to end. Sexy, angsty, and the best slow burn I've read all year! A must, MUST read.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Full Review:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Being a fan of both Vanessa Fewings and Ava Harrison, I knew this read would be the one book I'd HAVE to read this year, even if I read nothing else. I was not disappointed in any way. <b>THE RAVISHING was gripping, intriguing, exciting, and superbly written. Cassius and Anya just clicked, even when it seemed they shouldn’t.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Story/Characters...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cassius Calvetti is the descendant of Italian aristocracy but though he might have been born into privilege and wealth, that didn’t save him or his family from the wrath of greed. After a harrowing night where he lost nearly everything, he’s set on revenge and nothing will stop him from getting his pound of flesh.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyone looking in on Anya’s life would think she’s the spoiled princess of a wealthy businessman. That’s certainly the view Cass had of her. But her life is shackled to a gilded cage filled with isolation and loneliness. She’s an implement of revenge and when all the secrets come pouring out, everything changes, and neither Cassius nor Anya were prepared for what was to come.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I LOVED Cass and Anya together. They were a very unlikely pair as both seemed to be on opposite sides of the page. Cass is set on taking his revenge for everything that happened to him, and Anya just wants her freedom. When Cass and Anya come together, neither were expecting the instant spark between them. Cass sure wasn’t expecting the fire and spirit Anya gave him.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I enjoyed everything about Anya. She was full of life and bravery but also wielded a kind, pure soul. I loved her bite. She was sassy and mature in all the right ways. She really finds her strength and that was enchanting to watch play out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As soon as I finished the book, I immediately wrote to one of the authors and asked if I could marry Cass. THAT’S how much I loved him. I’m sure my hubs won’t mind. ;) Seriously though, Cass was a complicated character. He seemed tough and full of anger, but he has layers, people! LAYERS! And I loved watching each and every one of those layers get peeled back by Anya.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Wrap Up:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Fewings and Harrison</i> made an amazing duo. This story had lots of twists and turns, ups and downs, and a slow burn that really kept me glued to the pages needing to see what happened next. <b><u>THE RAVISHING</u> is a must-read, slow-burn romance you will devour in one sitting!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>....</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER HERE:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vanessafewingsauthor/posts/10159534528126354">see it on Facebook</a>!</span></b></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
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Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-92186237613832883792021-07-14T02:00:00.001-04:002021-07-14T02:00:00.206-04:00REVIEW TOUR - THE SPARK by Vi Keeland is Now Available:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mvEEm3tYbYs/YOqUxBiD-5I/AAAAAAABsn8/DTYlhif_N0ooQyovxC9fT_jeP0RB7qv2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1940/RT%2BBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1940" height="124" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mvEEm3tYbYs/YOqUxBiD-5I/AAAAAAABsn8/DTYlhif_N0ooQyovxC9fT_jeP0RB7qv2QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h124/RT%2BBanner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Title: The Spark<br /></b></span><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Author: Vi Keeland<br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance<br /></b></span><b><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Release Date: July 12, 2021</span></span></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yAvuWDXWabU/YJlAWwSetVI/AAAAAAABn20/62yjY9Q2J7gTlq23yZf_0mZgt9hE__cRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/The%2BSpark%2BEbook%2BCover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yAvuWDXWabU/YJlAWwSetVI/AAAAAAABn20/62yjY9Q2J7gTlq23yZf_0mZgt9hE__cRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w250-h400/The%2BSpark%2BEbook%2BCover.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Before I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">You see, I’d gone away for a few days, and in my haste to get out of the airport, I’d grabbed the wrong suitcase.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">After checking out the expensive footwear and tailored clothes, I dialed the number on the luggage tag hoping maybe Mister Big Spender might have my bag.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">A deep, velvety voice answered, and as luck would have it, he had my suitcase, too.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Donovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the exchange.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">He got me to admit that I’d snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. Donovan wasn’t just handsome with a panty-dropping voice. He was also funny, smart, and surprisingly down to earth for a man who wore seven-hundred-dollar shoes.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Did I mention he also <i>did my laundry while I slept</i>?</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Definitely</i> too good to be true.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">So what did I do to repay him for his kindness?</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">My life was too complicated for such a great guy.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">In the months that passed, I thought about Donovan often. But New York City had eight-million people, so what were the chances I’d run into him?</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Then again, what were the chances I’d run into him a year later…when I’d just started dating <i>his boss</i>?</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">THE REVIEW:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gU4jnBiN0Rk/YO25y3gxnVI/AAAAAAAAzJE/fI6OvF2awJgxaFKmt2bqXQYjGECUKpoyACLcBGAsYHQ/s552/Book%2BReviews%2B3%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="552" height="81" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gU4jnBiN0Rk/YO25y3gxnVI/AAAAAAAAzJE/fI6OvF2awJgxaFKmt2bqXQYjGECUKpoyACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h81/Book%2BReviews%2B3%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></b></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><i>This ARC was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>3 Stars!</b></div><div><b>In Short: <i>Fun, energetic, and a solid, sweet romance! I enjoyed this one.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Full Review:</b></div><div>Donovan Decker came from nothing but decided long ago that his circumstances wouldn’t stop him from succeeding. And he did. He’s one of the top attorneys in the city. Up for promotion in the firm he’s been working hard at for the last seven years, he hasn’t had much time for anything else. But the moment he meets Autumn, he sees possibility. Too bad she doesn't feel the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>After coming back from a bachelorette party weekend with the girls, Autumn realizes she’s left the airport with the wrong luggage. Taking a chance and calling the owner on the luggage tag, she walks into a coffee shop expecting to just exchange suitcases but is immediately taken with the handsome guy behind the sexy voice on the phone. After a weekend with him, she realizes he’s the epitome of too-good-to-be-true and hightails it out of there.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fast forward ten months later and a chance meeting brings Donovan and Autumn back together. This time Donovan is determined to not let Autumn disappear again.</div><div><br /></div><div>I liked Donovan a lot. He had charm and was witty and he was a great guy. But... he was a bit TOO perfect if that makes sense. He always did the right thing. He always said the right thing. He was a bad boy, done good. He was successful and didn’t mind paying it forward. As I said, he was a good guy, but his layers were... thin. If you are in the mood for a good guy, then Donovan is PERFECT. Right now, I’m into heroes with a bit more complexity and I wish the author had explored his darker parts a little more. HOWEVER, I loved his determination when it came to Autumn. He knew they would be something special together and the spark between them was so strong and fiery. He wasn’t willing to walk away from that and I enjoyed watching him break down her strong walls.</div><div><br /></div><div>Autumn was a nice girl, but she had relationship issues - with good reason. I liked her well enough as a character, but she made a single decision early on that tested my like for her. I don’t enjoy reading books with any form of cheating and though what Autumn had with her second “non” love interest couldn’t really be classified as a relationship, she kept it as a barrier between her and Donovan and I don’t enjoy those kinds of complications. If it hadn’t been for that, I would have really liked her character.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Wrap Up:</b></div><div>Overall, the romance was sweet with a couple of twists and turns. It was an easy, fun read with humor, light angst, and good characters. I especially enjoyed the side characters, Bud and Storm. They added depth to the story.</div></div></span><div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Before I even met Donovan Decker, I knew his shoe size.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">You see, I’d gone away for a few days, and in my haste to get out of the airport, I’d grabbed the wrong suitcase.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After checking out the expensive footwear and tailored clothes, I dialed the number on the luggage tag hoping maybe Mister Big Spender might have my bag.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A deep, velvety voice answered, and as luck would have it, he had my suitcase, too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Donovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the exchange.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He got me to admit that I’d snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. Donovan wasn’t just handsome with a panty-dropping voice. He was also funny, smart, and surprisingly down to earth for a man who wore seven-hundred-dollar shoes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did I mention he also <i>did my laundry while I slept</i>?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Definitely</i> too good to be true.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So what did I do to repay him for his kindness?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My life was too complicated for such a great guy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the months that passed, I thought about Donovan often. But New York City had eight-million people, so what were the chances I’d run into him?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then again, what were the chances I’d run into him a year later…when I’d just started dating <i>his boss</i>?</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="-moz-border-radius: 15px; background-color: #232323; border-radius: 15px; font-color: white; height: 300px; overflow: auto; padding: 3px;" width="100%"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">CHAPTER 1</span></b></div><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Autumn</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I’m definitely getting too old for this.</i></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;">I tossed a pile of mail on the couch and plopped down beside it. It was barely six o’clock, and I wouldn’t have minded climbing into bed and calling it a day. I needed a vacation from my four-day mini vacation. Thank goodness I’d scheduled myself a weekend to recover. My girls’ trip/early bachelorette party in Vegas for my friend Anna—the one where we were all going to relax by the pool and get spa treatments—had turned into all-night clubbing and almost missing my flight home earlier today because I’d overslept. It had definitely been a while since I drank more than two glasses of wine in the span of a week, and I was feeling my ripe old age of twenty-eight before the sun had even set this Friday night. Thank God I didn’t have to work tomorrow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I briefly considered going the hair-of-the-dog route and sucking back a vodka cran while zoning out on Netflix, but then my phone rang, crashing me back to reality.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ugh…</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Dad</i> flashed on the screen. I should’ve just gotten it over with and spoken to him, but I didn’t have the energy. Nonetheless, allowing myself to avoid the stress speaking to my father would inevitably cause reminded me of the other thing I needed to do that I’d been avoiding all afternoon. <i>Laundry.</i> One of my least-favorite tasks—mostly because it required me to sit downstairs in my building’s dingy basement laundry room. Up until a few months ago, I would start my laundry and come back forty-five minutes later to make the switch to the dryer. But that practice had come to a halt after one of my loads went missing—an entire load of wet bras and underwear. Who the hell stole wet clothes? At least nab dry ones. Nevertheless, it was an expensive lesson, and now I didn’t leave the basement until my clothes were washed and dried.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sighing, I begrudgingly went to the bedroom, where my suitcase still sat on the bed, and unzipped it. I’d packed a linen skirt on top that I hadn’t wound up wearing, and I figured I’d hang it in the bathroom and hope the wrinkles worked themselves out over the course of a couple of steamy showers. I hated ironing almost as much as I hated doing laundry downstairs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But when I flipped open the top of the suitcase, my linen skirt wasn’t on top. At first I thought my bag must’ve been selected for search, and things hadn’t been put back in order… Though the wingtip shoe I lifted was most definitely not mine.</div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Shit.</i></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;">I rummaged through the suitcase in a panic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Slacks, running clothes, a men’s dress shirt… A sickening feeling washed over me, and I scrambled to look at the luggage tag. I’d never filled out the identification card inside, but the leather had my initials embossed on the outside.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And this one…had no initials.</div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Crap. Crap. Crap.</i></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;">I’d grabbed the wrong bag off the luggage carousel. I started to sweat. All of my makeup was in that bag! Not to mention a week’s worth of my best outfits and shoes. I needed to get it back. Rushing to the kitchen, I grabbed my cell from the charger on the counter and Googled the number for the airline. After wading through a half-dozen prompts, I reached a recording.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Thank you for calling American Airlines. Due to unprecedented call volume, your estimated wait time is approximately forty-one minutes.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Forty-one minutes!</i> I blew out a rush of air. <i>Great. Just great.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the meantime, while I waited on hold on speakerphone, listening to staticky music, it hit me that whoever’s luggage I had might very well have mine. I hadn’t even checked the luggage tag to see if, unlike mine, the identification information was filled in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I zipped back down the hall to my bedroom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bingo!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Donovan Decker</i><i>—</i>kind of a cool name. And he lived here in the city! Thankfully, Donovan even had his phone number listed. <i>It couldn’t be that easy, could it?</i> I doubted it, but considering I still had forty minutes before I could speak to someone at the airline, I wasn’t losing much for trying. So I swiped to end my call. I started to punch in the numbers on the tag, and then decided to hit *67 first to make my number private. With my luck, the guy wouldn’t have my luggage, but he’d be a total creeper.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was caught off guard when a man’s deep voice answered on the first ring. I hadn’t yet figured out what I was going to say.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Uhhh. Hi. My name is Autumn, and I think I might have your luggage.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That was quick. I just hung up with you guys two minutes ago.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He must’ve thought I was calling from the airline. “Oh, no. I don’t work for American. I traveled home this morning and must’ve grabbed the wrong bag at JFK.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“What are your initials?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“My initials?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yeah, you know, the first letter of your first name and the first letter of your last name.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I rolled my eyes. “I know what initials are. I just don’t understand why you would ask—<i>Oh!</i> Does that mean you have my luggage? I have my initials embossed on the luggage tag.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That depends on what your initials are, Autumn. The first letter matches.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“My initials are AW.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Well, then it seems you are indeed the thief who clipped my luggage.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sure, I hadn’t checked my luggage tag, but it offended me that he was calling me a thief. “Wouldn’t we both be thieves? Since you’re in possession of <i>my</i> luggage?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I only took yours because it was the last one left rotating around the carousel. You see, unlike you, <i>I</i> checked the luggage tag the first time it passed, and when I saw it wasn’t mine, I left it for the rightful owner to claim. But the line at baggage customer service was twenty deep, and I had a meeting I was already late for. So I took the one I have hostage until the airline could sort it out.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My shoulders slumped. “Oh. Sorry.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It’s fine. Are you here in the City?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I am. Could we possibly meet to swap bags?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Sure. When and where? I’m out now, but I’ll be back in an hour or two.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tag had an address on the Upper East Side, but I lived on the West Side, farther downtown. “Could we meet at the Starbucks on 80th and Lex?” That was closer to him, but at least I’d only have to drag the suitcase onto one subway.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I can’t think of any <i>excuse</i> not to. What time?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That was sort of a weird way to phrase a yes, and the way he emphasized the word <i>excuse</i> seemed odd. But hey, I was getting my bag back. So what if he turned out to be a little strange? At least I’d hidden my phone number, and we were meeting in a public place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“How about eight?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’ll see you then.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It sounded like he was about to hang up. “Wait…” I said. “How will I know it’s you?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’ll be the one holding your luggage, Autumn W.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I chuckled. “Oh, yeah. Sorry...long week in Vegas.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I bent and lifted the shoe from the top of the bag. Ferragamo. <i>Expensive.</i> And big, too. A quick peek revealed it was a size thirteen. The inner teenager in me couldn’t help but think <i>big feet, big…</i>.<i> </i>Plus, the guy had a deep, sexy voice. I would definitely be exploring more of the dude’s luggage after we hung up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’ll meet you at eight,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“See you then.” I was just about to swipe my phone off when something hit me. <i>Oh God!</i> “Hello? <i>Wait</i>...are you still there?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It took a heartbeat or two, but the sexy voice came back on the line. “What’s up?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Ummm… Did you…open my bag?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I unzipped it at the airport to make sure it wasn’t mine when I noticed the luggage tag initials.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Did you…see anything?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“There was a pink thong on top, so that pretty much sealed the deal that it didn’t belong to me. But I didn’t rummage through, if that’s what you’re asking.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I forgot I’d shoved that thong in at the last minute. It had been at the back of a drawer when I’d checked the hotel room one last time on my way out. But I’d take him seeing my underwear over <i>the other</i> stuff inside my bag. I blew out a sigh of relief. “Okay, that’s great. Thank you. I’ll see you at eight at Starbucks.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Whoa. Hang on a second—not so fast. You sounded pretty nervous that I might’ve gone through your bag. Are you hiding something sinister in there? I’m not going to be walking around with a suitcase full of drugs or something, am I?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I cracked a smile. “No, definitely not. I just...I’d prefer if you didn’t go through it.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Did you rummage through mine?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I glanced at the shoe in my hand. Taking out one measly piece of footwear wouldn’t be considered rummaging, right? <i>Nah.</i> “No, I didn’t.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Are you planning on it?” he asked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I had no idea what the man looked like, yet I could tell by his voice that he was smiling now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Nope,” I lied.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Alright. Then we have a deal. I won’t go through your bag, and you won’t go through mine.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Okay. Thank you.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Do I have your word on that, Autumn W? I might have some things I’d prefer you didn’t see in there.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Like what?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He chuckled. “See you at eight.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After we hung up, I tossed the shoe back into the suitcase and bent to close it. But as I reached for the zipper, my curiosity got the best of me. Was he just screwing with me, or did he really have something in here he didn’t want me to see? Of course, I knew what I had in mine, which made me extra curious.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I shook my head and started to pull the zipper closed. About halfway, I laughed out loud. Who was I kidding? Now that I didn’t have laundry to do, I had almost a full two hours to kill before I met Mr. Bigfoot. This suitcase would taunt me all that time. I’d most certainly give in eventually, so why not put myself out of that misery and just take a little look-see inside now? Then I’d be able to relax. He’d never know I hadn’t lived up to my end of the bargain. Not to mention, for all I knew, he was elbow deep in <i>my</i> suitcase right now. In that case, it would only be fair that I got to go through his, right?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I nibbled my lip for a few seconds as a wave of guilt washed over me. But I quickly forced that out of my mind. <i>Of course I’m right.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feeling justified now, I unzipped the suitcase and took a minute to mentally note how everything was packed: a white dress shirt was folded on top, and two shoes were set on either side, heels facing up. I carefully unpacked those and placed them on the bed next to the suitcase in the same order. The next layer had more folded clothes: two expensive dress shirts, a pair of sweats, boxer briefs, and a few T-shirts, one of which had something emblazoned on the front—familiar lettering that began HA—so I unfolded it to see what it said. <i>Harvard Law.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ugh. <i>One of those.</i> No wonder he could afford Ferragamo shoes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Underneath the pile of clothes was a white laundry bag—the kind a hotel gives you to put your dry cleaning in, but most people used it to separate their dirty clothes. With no desire to sort through smelly socks, I started to fold the clothes back into the suitcase, feeling a twinge of disappointment. But when I smoothed out the layers of the pile, I felt something lumpy and hard underneath in the plastic laundry bag. So I took the clothes back out and looked inside, hoping to find…I’m not sure what. Though what I found was definitely not what I expected.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bag was filled with at least twenty or thirty of those little shampoo bottles hotels give out. Actually, a closer inspection revealed some were conditioner and a few were moisturizer. Buried on the very bottom were also three little sewing kits and half-a-dozen toothbrushes wrapped in plastic—the kind you could get at the front desk of a hotel when you forgot yours.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What the heck had Mr. Bigfoot done? Rob a housekeeping cart? This kind of stuff, though a lesser quantity, is what you’d usually find in my suitcase since I was broke all the time. But it wasn’t the type of thing you’d expect in the suitcase of a man who had gone to Harvard and wore seven-hundred-dollar dress shoes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now I was even more curious to meet Donovan Decker.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I arrived at Starbucks almost twenty minutes early, so I went online to treat myself to a flat white with honey almond milk. Even ordering it had me salivating, thinking about the sweet, creamy drink. Expensive coffee was my indulgence, but it didn’t happen too often with the five-dollar price tag and my skimpy budget.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stood at the end of the counter, waiting for my drink and mindlessly scrolling on my phone, when a man walking through the front door caught my attention.</div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Oh, wow.</i></div></i><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that was one good-looking man. Describing him as merely tall, dark, and handsome didn’t cut it, not by a mile. Jet-black hair framed a magnificent face with a chiseled, masculine bone structure, full lips, and a Romanesque nose. I wasn’t the only one to notice, either. I watched as the Adonis took a step back outside to hold the door open for a woman exiting the store, and the poor lady caught one glimpse of him and literally tripped over her own feet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seemingly oblivious that he’d caused the incident, he extended a hand to help her up, flashed a killer smile, and strolled inside. His bright blue eyes scanned the room, stopping right on my ogling ones. Embarrassed at being caught, I quickly diverted my attention back to my phone. A few seconds later, I was still pretending to be enraptured by my screen when footsteps came to a halt in front of me. I glanced up and blinked a few times. The guy from the door flashed a crooked smile.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Were you able to control yourself?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My forehead wrinkled. “Excuse me?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His eyes danced with mirth, and his voice lowered. “I bet you couldn’t.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stared at him for an awkward moment before finally shaking my head. “What on Earth are you talking about?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The man’s brows furrowed. “We made a deal, remember? I wouldn’t go through yours, if you didn’t touch mine?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’d watched the man walk in, stood right in front of him staring for at least a solid minute, and it took until <i>now</i> for me to notice he had something in his hand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Oh my God. You have my suitcase!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He laughed but still looked perplexed. “What did you think I was talking about?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I…I don’t know. I was thoroughly confused.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I thought you saw me walk in.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I did. But I hadn’t made it past your face.</i> “No, I hadn’t noticed. Sorry. I guess I was just zoning out.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The barista behind the counter yelled my name. I was glad for an excuse to put some distance between this guy and me. I needed a moment to gather my wits. Though when I returned, I still felt a little off-kilter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Thank you for meeting me to swap suitcases,” I said. “I’m really sorry I took the wrong one.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“No problem.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I rolled his case forward and released the handle. But the Adonis didn’t do the same. In fact, he pulled my bag closer to his side.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Before we switch...” He tilted his head and studied my face. “I’m curious to know if you kept your word.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I mimicked his pose and tilted my head. “What if I say I didn’t?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Well, then you’d have to pay a penalty for violating the terms of our deal.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I raised a brow, intrigued. “A penalty?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He nodded. “That’s right. There’s a penalty.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I laughed as I lifted my coffee for a sip. “I just got back from a girls’ weekend in Vegas. Pretty sure this overpriced drink just used up the last five dollars in my bank account.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I wasn’t referring to a monetary penalty.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“What kind of a penalty, then?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He stroked the stubble on his chin for a moment. “You’d have to have coffee with me.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did this guy really think that would be a hardship? I debated how to answer. If I told the truth, it would be embarrassing. I mean, I went through the man’s personal belongings. But the flipside was I’d get to check him out some more over coffee. Then again, I’d be agreeing to spend time with a complete stranger. Though…whenever I met a guy online, I usually met him at a coffeehouse, and I probably knew more about this guy after going through his suitcase than I would from an online chat. Not to mention, none of my online dates had looked like Donovan Decker lately. In fact, none had made it further than coffee in a while.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Adonis had been watching my face as I debated my answer. His smirk made me think he already knew I’d checked out his bag. So, what the hell?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stood tall and met his stare. “Was the lady from housekeeping harmed in the robbery?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His eyes narrowed for a heartbeat, but then a giant smile spread across his face. He held his hand out toward the seating area. “After you, Autumn W.”</div></span>
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<div style="-moz-border-radius: 15px; background-color: #232323; border-radius: 15px; font-color: white; height: 300px; overflow: auto; padding: 3px;" width="100%"><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0c176c1f-7fff-3d98-f0fe-b9c1a7c279b1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I’m gonna grab a beer,” he said. “You want something?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I’ll take a beer, too.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He chuckled. “Is it bad that I had to think for a second whether you’re legal to drink? It feels wrong giving you alcohol, for some reason.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“You’ve dropped me off at the damn bar! How could you think that?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I know. It’s fucked-up.” He laughed as he walked backwards into the house. “Be right back.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">A minute later, Jace returned with two chilled bottles of Miller Lite. He popped one open and handed it to me. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Thanks.” I took a long sip that felt great going down. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">We polished off the rest of the food, and by the time I finished the beer, I felt pretty tipsy. Between the soft breeze blowing Jace’s scent my way and the buzz, I was on cloud nine.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace took it upon himself to clear our wrappers and napkins, stuffing everything into the paper bag. As he went back into the kitchen, he asked, “Want another beer?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I’d love one.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">When he returned, he set the bottle in front of me and sat back down. He put his feet up on an empty chair and leaned his head back, closing his eyes. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He sighed. “This is exactly what I needed…to chill at home.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">That made me happy. “Give your head a break tonight. You can always worry about work tomorrow.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Yeah. I think I’m gonna take your advice on that.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">While his eyes were closed, I was able to enjoy staring at his profile—his strong, angular jaw and slightly cleft chin, his perfect nose and kissable lips, the way the sun brought out a reddish tone in his otherwise black hair. Jace was even more beautiful with the sun shining on him. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I eventually closed my eyes as well, enjoying the breeze that offset a little of the heat. My eyes opened suddenly when I heard his chair skid against the cement.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Fuck it.” He got up. “I’ll be right back.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My heart raced a little. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is he doing? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">A few minutes later, Jace returned in his swim trunks. They were blue with tiny anchors, a nautical pattern. Not that I was looking closely at his lower half or anything. I’d just started to make my way up to his chest when he dove into the pool, his gorgeous, hard body disappearing under the sky blue water.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He emerged and shook his head to clear the water from his hair. “You comin’ in or what?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I got goose bumps. I hadn’t planned to, but I couldn’t resist the invitation. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Sure.” I got up from my seat and unwrapped the towel. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace watched as I entered the pool. But what was he thinking? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I dove in and swam toward him, feeling more comfortable in my bathing suit now that I was submerged in the water.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He flashed a mischievous grin. “Wanna race?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I splashed him. “Why? You think you can beat me just cuz your legs are longer?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He cocked a brow. “There’s only one way to find out, right?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Over the next several minutes, Jace and I swam in tandem from one end of the pool to the other. Sometimes he’d beat me to the other side, and a few times, I beat him.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Eventually, we got into a water fight. The next thing I knew, he was chasing me, then lifting me up and tossing me in the water. He did that several times. It was the most fun I’d had in a long time. I hadn’t a care in the world. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then he lifted me up again, and I was certain he was going to toss me into the water, just like all of the other times. Instead, though, he just held me. Our eyes locked as my legs wrapped around his waist. He was going to have to drop me, because I sure as hell wasn’t climbing off him willingly. As he continued to hold me, the world seemed to stop. I could see the reflection of the palm trees in his gorgeous eyes, made luminescent by the sun. Those eyes then dropped to my lips. I could see his chest rising and falling. He swallowed hard. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy shit.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Something was happening. My heart was going a mile a minute. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">And then…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“What are you doing?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace dropped me like a hot potato at the sound of Nathan’s voice. My body hit the water with a loud splash.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What the hell is he doing here?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My voice was shaky as I wiped the water from my eyes. “Wha…why are you home? I thought you were driving to meet that girl.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“She canceled on me, so I came back after the job interview.” Nathan’s eyes traveled between Jace and me. He seemed suspicious.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Oh.” I exhaled, moving a strand of hair out of my mouth. “How…how did the interview go?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“It was okay. Too hard to tell if they’re gonna call me back, though.” He looked straight at Jace. “You guys seemed to be having fun. Didn’t realize I was missing out on a…pool party.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace was silent.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I felt the need to chime in. “Jace decided to take his debut dip in the pool. We were just playing around.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Nathan looked between us again. “I see.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace finally spoke. “Well, it’s hot as all hell today. So…”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“You guys down if I make some dinner?” Nathan finally asked.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“We actually already ate,” I told him. “Jace went to Checkers.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Nathan turned to his friend. “Since when do you eat dinner this early?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace cleared his throat. “I was starving.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“We didn’t think you were going to be home,” I said. “Otherwise, we would’ve waited.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I guess I’ll give you that.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Jace got out of the water and dried himself off. He then laid out on one of the loungers, displaying his gorgeous, tanned body in all of its glistening glory. His feet dangled off the end of the chair.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Nathan snapped his fingers in front of my face. “I asked if I got anything in the mail. Earth to Farrah.”</span></span></p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span><span> </span>Jesus. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I hadn’t even heard him the first time.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfjyonAAXbU/YC6h3r7IpbI/AAAAAAAAylY/_kTjI7OoBa0owCo8BRD90O0NAH-wdS2wQCLcBGAsYHQ/s898/The%2BCrush_Cover%2BImage_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfjyonAAXbU/YC6h3r7IpbI/AAAAAAAAylY/_kTjI7OoBa0owCo8BRD90O0NAH-wdS2wQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BCrush_Cover%2BImage_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BOOK BLURB:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone, second-chance story of forbidden love…</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s natural to want the one you can’t have. And for as long as I could remember, I’d secretly wanted my brother’s best friend, Jace.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">He was six years older and always treated me like the sister he never had.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fast forward a decade.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We were all in our twenties now. Jace had moved in with my brother, Nathan, and me to help us make ends meet after our parents died. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was just the three of us—an odd family dynamic. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Living under our roof, Jace was as bossy and protective as ever. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But he certainly didn’t look at me like a sister anymore. That was what made things so complicated. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was pretty much hot and bothered twenty-four-seven. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And he was torn.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The signs were subtle, at first. Like on movie night, I’d casually rest my leg against his, and he wouldn’t exactly shift away.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Still, I assumed he would never…go there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nathan would kill us.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The knowledge of that wasn’t enough to stop the inevitable, though.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Eventually our slow burn exploded. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But more than the physical attraction, we’d developed a strong connection. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We just couldn’t get caught, right?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">That sounded simple.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Until it wasn’t.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a story of forbidden love, broken trust, and an unexpected second chance. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">GOODREADS LINK: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56337264-the-crush">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56337264-the-crush</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PRE-ORDER LINKS:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apple Books: <a href="http://apple.co/3ruvaRW">http://apple.co/3ruvaRW</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">B&N: <a href="http://bit.ly/2NrcLpA">http://bit.ly/2NrcLpA</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kobo: <a href="http://bit.ly/2ZfGq82">http://bit.ly/2ZfGq82</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Google Play: <a href="http://bit.ly/3b0HkdS">http://bit.ly/3b0HkdS</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Audio: <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZhQH3I">https://amzn.to/2ZhQH3I</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paperback: <a href="https://amzn.to/34Hwh73">https://amzn.to/34Hwh73</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AMAZON LIVE RELEASE ALERT: <a href="https://fave.co/2KoLPUN">https://fave.co/2KoLPUN</a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0bxP3ytrXA/YC6h4O5p3DI/AAAAAAAAylc/VKhhNLXl5SgxZ0AqjrN-12jEbTaoncsTACLcBGAsYHQ/s560/The%2BCrush_Teaser%2B1_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w0bxP3ytrXA/YC6h4O5p3DI/AAAAAAAAylc/VKhhNLXl5SgxZ0AqjrN-12jEbTaoncsTACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BCrush_Teaser%2B1_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y160zMxL-Wk/YC6iK_MfMoI/AAAAAAAAyls/4RsQ71x_EdIn8U6vzvuao-MwHK1m7pnzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s532/Just%2BOne%2BYear_Penelope%2BWard%2BBio%2BPic2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y160zMxL-Wk/YC6iK_MfMoI/AAAAAAAAyls/4RsQ71x_EdIn8U6vzvuao-MwHK1m7pnzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Just%2BOne%2BYear_Penelope%2BWard%2BBio%2BPic2.jpg" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span>enelope Ward</b> is a <i>New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i> and #1 <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestselling author of contemporary romance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">With over two million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>AUTHOR LINKS:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/penelopewardauthor" style="font-family: verdana;">https://www.facebook.com/penelopewardauthor</a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PenelopesPeeps">https://www.facebook.com/groups/PenelopesPeeps</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/PenelopeWardAuthor">http://instagram.com/PenelopeWardAuthor</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/PenelopeAuthor">https://twitter.com/PenelopeAuthor</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pLVM4LyMp94/YC6h3uM4YYI/AAAAAAAAylU/ESvAal6ROMgeb0VLPFzLYVPdm5ngEqvrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/The%2BCrush_Full%2BWrap_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pLVM4LyMp94/YC6h3uM4YYI/AAAAAAAAylU/ESvAal6ROMgeb0VLPFzLYVPdm5ngEqvrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BCrush_Full%2BWrap_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></div><br /> <p></p>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-5192946389007109002021-02-09T10:28:00.006-05:002021-02-09T10:28:46.753-05:00NEW RELEASE! NATE: An Enemies to Lovers Standalone from TIJAN!<p> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZrrCwkXnhg/YCKmH6SGT9I/AAAAAAAAykY/frwAe7P66oElKC6F22X_t9q18W12NM-2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Now%2BAvail%2BBanner2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NZrrCwkXnhg/YCKmH6SGT9I/AAAAAAAAykY/frwAe7P66oElKC6F22X_t9q18W12NM-2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Now%2BAvail%2BBanner2.jpg" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Remember Nate from the Fallen Crest series???<br />He's back!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">NATE:</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">An Enemies to Lovers Standalone</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">by TIJAN</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">NOW AVAILABLE!<br /></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nate is live!! It's an enemies-to-lovers and can be read as a standalone.<br />Go and grab it.<br /><br />Links are at @tijansbooks or <a href="https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl">https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrf9uS3JXNc/YCKmHWScepI/AAAAAAAAykQ/y0vP0qQBl0whSsrSa9vmPV0XCV0rmq02gCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Now%2BAvail%2BBanner%2B2_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrf9uS3JXNc/YCKmHWScepI/AAAAAAAAykQ/y0vP0qQBl0whSsrSa9vmPV0XCV0rmq02gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Now%2BAvail%2BBanner%2B2_2.jpg" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BOOK BLURB:<br /><br />Nate Monson was gorgeous, obnoxiously wealthy, and a player.<br />He was also the person who could destroy my world with a single decision.<br /><br />I walked into that bar looking for him.<br />He saw me. I saw him.<br />The chemistry sizzled between us, but no.<br /><br />I hated Nate Monson.<br />I hated him with everything in me, even though my body did not.<br />It didn’t matter.<br /><br />Nothing I wanted mattered.<br />He thought I wanted to get laid.<br />What I wanted was for him to disappear.<br />But first, I had to tell him that he had a daughter.<br /><br />** Nate is an enemies-to-lovers 97k standalone.<br /><br />....</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Buy Links:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088MPGLMC">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088MPGLMC</a><br />Apple: <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/nate/id1512881248">https://books.apple.com/us/book/nate/id1512881248</a><br />Nook: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nate-tijan/1137005232">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nate-tijan/1137005232</a><br />Kobo: <a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nate-20">https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nate-20</a><br /><br />Add to Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53441976">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53441976</a><br /><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">All links are at @tijansbooks or<br /><a href="https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl">https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl</a><br /><br /></span></b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQeRuBXDc4o/YCKmHTgYKtI/AAAAAAAAykM/YPlHyzgJZtYHolb0Y7Y1LPy2Lu5uEXRpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Book%2BImages_2_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nQeRuBXDc4o/YCKmHTgYKtI/AAAAAAAAykM/YPlHyzgJZtYHolb0Y7Y1LPy2Lu5uEXRpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Book%2BImages_2_2.jpg" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nate is live!! It's an enemies-to-lovers and can be read as a standalone.<br /><br />Go and grab it.<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Links are at @tijansbooks or <a href="https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl">https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqgAqMFK-7Q/YCKmHeTH-KI/AAAAAAAAykU/tw0aFEiFGsYuLL21vZwVR_Emccgq27KLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s840/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Book%2BImages2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqgAqMFK-7Q/YCKmHeTH-KI/AAAAAAAAykU/tw0aFEiFGsYuLL21vZwVR_Emccgq27KLQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Nate_Fallen%2BCrest%2BSeries_An%2BEnemies%2Bto%2BLovers%2BStandalone_Tijan_Book%2BImages2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nate is live!! It's an enemies-to-lovers and can be read as a standalone.<br /><br />Go and grab it.<br /><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Links are at @tijansbooks or <a href="https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl">https://books2read.com/u/31Gwkl</a></span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></b></div></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-50263933300283864642021-01-19T08:00:00.002-05:002021-01-19T08:00:03.724-05:00Review Tour - THE INVITATION by Vi Keeland is Now Available:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KTJ09Q8gMBM/YARiPtucDFI/AAAAAAAAyfE/-bmmZZlsJAYcZRrxBij1BzFDddEWKAz0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_RT%2BBanner550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KTJ09Q8gMBM/YARiPtucDFI/AAAAAAAAyfE/-bmmZZlsJAYcZRrxBij1BzFDddEWKAz0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_RT%2BBanner550.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">THE INVITATION</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">IS NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My review...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XVxfCuLIWhU/YARly1qVzKI/AAAAAAAAygY/ZYr6fkyNE7AzBECqeDImecFMF8MXwkLYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s552/Book%2BReviews%2B4%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="112" data-original-width="552" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XVxfCuLIWhU/YARly1qVzKI/AAAAAAAAygY/ZYr6fkyNE7AzBECqeDImecFMF8MXwkLYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Book%2BReviews%2B4%2BStars%2BBanner.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: red;">Reviewer Notes:</span></b> <i>I received an eARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">✦✦✦✦</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>4 Stars!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>...had me seriously catching the butterflies.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Review:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I thoroughly enjoyed this read! Hudson and Stella just clicked! They were fun and exciting and the story itself was full of romance and swoon! I already want to reread it...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>How it begins...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Stella and her friend Frasier decide to crash an uppity wedding, and in the process, Stella meets a handsome... jerk. The whole meet-cute was delightfully entertaining, and Hudson immediately stole the show with his intense eyes and sophisticated style. In the first few pages, I could tell Stella would be a great character, full of quirks and adorable weirdness. I wasn’t wrong. I loved her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The characters...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This book has fantastic character building, showing us capable, honest, and loveable characters with interesting backstories—and, of course, great bad guys who were fun to hate. The mains were sexy and likable. I appreciated the little extras the author added to her characters. The writing on the fruit, the diaries, the fact Stella could sniff a random object and pinpoint its exact scent and composition... it was all so much fun to read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The twist...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Throughout the book, there’s a buildup to the conflict, which the author shows through a few flashbacks. It’s not unexpected, but it’s totally unique and had me completely glued to the pages to find out how it was all going to work out. The plot turns were fun and different. I just loved them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The story...</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I love <i>Vi Keeland</i>. She writes great stories. This one is probably one of my favorites by her. It was an easy read that had me chasing those delicious little tummy flutters you get when something exciting is happening. The story was flirty and charming with a slow build from enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, all with a sexual tension that had me seriously catching the butterflies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Conclusion:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Overall, this was an entertaining, engaging, ROMANTIC read that I completely enjoyed. It’s exactly what I needed as my first book of 2021 to wash away these uncertain days for a few gratifying hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">✦✦✦✦</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSZ63FZBFMQ/YARiTYEW60I/AAAAAAAAyfI/yvsonnY0PSMTynW5ImR9ohZuXCHtxM0DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s879/The%2BInvitation_Cover%2BImage%2B550.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="550" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSZ63FZBFMQ/YARiTYEW60I/AAAAAAAAyfI/yvsonnY0PSMTynW5ImR9ohZuXCHtxM0DQCLcBGAsYHQ/w250-h400/The%2BInvitation_Cover%2BImage%2B550.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div><div><b style="font-family: verdana;">Title: The Invitation</b></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Author: Vi Keeland</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Release Date: January 18, 2021</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>BLURB</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first time I met Hudson Rothschild was at a wedding. I’d received an unexpected invitation to one of the swankiest venues in the city. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hudson was a groomsman and quite possibly the most gorgeous man I’d ever laid eyes on. He asked me to dance, and our chemistry was off the charts. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I knew it wasn’t a good idea to get involved with him, considering the wedding I was at. But our connection was intense, and I was having a great time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Though the fun came to a screeching halt when Hudson figured out I wasn’t who I’d said I was. You see, that unexpected invitation I received? Well, it hadn’t actually been addressed to me—it was sent to my ex-roommate who’d bounced a check for two months’ rent and moved out in the middle of the night. I figured she owed me an expensive night out, but I guess, technically, I was crashing the wedding.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once caught, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. As I bolted for the door, I might’ve plucked a few bottles of expensive champagne off the tables I passed, all while the gorgeous, angry groomsman was hot on my tail. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Outside, I jumped into a taxi. My heart ricocheted against my ribs as we drove down the block—but at least I’d escaped unscathed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Or so I thought.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Until I realized I’d left my cell phone behind at the table. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take one guess who found it? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the crazy story of how Hudson Rothschild and I met. But trust me, it’s only the tip of the iceberg.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>GOODREADS LINK...</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55923227-the-invitation">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55923227-the-invitation</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>PURCHASE LINKS...</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">US: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T84VZS6/">https://amzn.to/35NPG7b</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">UK: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08T84VZS6/">https://amzn.to/39CRC3f</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">CA: <a href="https://amzn.to/3qySjlf">https://amzn.to/3qySjlf</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">AU: <a href="http://amzn.to/39E8BCq">http://amzn.to/39E8BCq</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Apple Books: <a href="https://apple.co/390y226">https://apple.co/390y226</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Paperback: <a href="https://amzn.to/32TqSsE">https://amzn.to/32TqSsE</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Audio: <a href="https://smarturl.it/w3bj77">https://smarturl.it/w3bj77</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Kobo: <a href="https://fave.co/38mUou3">https://fave.co/38mUou3</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">B&N: <a href="https://fave.co/3s1hfmT">https://fave.co/3s1hfmT</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Google Play: <a href="https://fave.co/2MzcikO">https://fave.co/2MzcikO</a></div></span></div><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YzePzEXMuV0/YARicEVnzeI/AAAAAAAAyfQ/guCPvglEbQccPzpTPdTVOK4bfkeZJTvCACLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B1_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YzePzEXMuV0/YARicEVnzeI/AAAAAAAAyfQ/guCPvglEbQccPzpTPdTVOK4bfkeZJTvCACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B1_2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1nYlpEYoU0U/YARicLREPII/AAAAAAAAyfM/xncEbgeqkwYcHKhWGbfB7HKt7xBVSbndQCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B2_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1nYlpEYoU0U/YARicLREPII/AAAAAAAAyfM/xncEbgeqkwYcHKhWGbfB7HKt7xBVSbndQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B2_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xRNm-YyliIs/YARilXFaBJI/AAAAAAAAyfY/Wl3rGI2IINYbb09zuPdHPddWGhSpIOwcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s502/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2BName%2Bblack2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="106" data-original-width="502" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xRNm-YyliIs/YARilXFaBJI/AAAAAAAAyfY/Wl3rGI2IINYbb09zuPdHPddWGhSpIOwcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2BName%2Bblack2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVK5N6vb06E/YARioy-jasI/AAAAAAAAyfc/CIsYb5zP5lUHdu7q7L3GLd7jwiTMWl5RwCLcBGAsYHQ/s524/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2Bheadshot2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVK5N6vb06E/YARioy-jasI/AAAAAAAAyfc/CIsYb5zP5lUHdu7q7L3GLd7jwiTMWl5RwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2Bheadshot2.jpg" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">V</span>i Keeland</b> is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty-five languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>AUTHOR LINKS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Profile: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland">https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ViKeelandFanGroup">https://www.facebook.com/groups/ViKeelandFanGroup</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Website: <a href="http://www.vikeeland.com">http://www.vikeeland.com</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ViKeeland">https://twitter.com/ViKeeland</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland">http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_Wwo9CNFeg/YARi2XkPe2I/AAAAAAAAyfo/aAIaza-8Zb0i0GLXKsiQQsRFEWJAaADgACLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Full%2BWrap550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_Wwo9CNFeg/YARi2XkPe2I/AAAAAAAAyfo/aAIaza-8Zb0i0GLXKsiQQsRFEWJAaADgACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Full%2BWrap550.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-82089167925004804052021-01-18T08:00:00.006-05:002021-01-18T08:00:00.619-05:00New Release! THE INVITATION by Vi Keeland is NOW LIVE!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNsLCM96MC0/YARePy6L0LI/AAAAAAAAyds/pnsCiGVSVB04Cx6y4sszzoj7zNKNz1uzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Release%2BBanner2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNsLCM96MC0/YARePy6L0LI/AAAAAAAAyds/pnsCiGVSVB04Cx6y4sszzoj7zNKNz1uzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Release%2BBanner2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>RELEASE BLITZ</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Title:</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The Invitation</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Author: Vi Keeland</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Release Date: January 18, 2021</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XjPbdjuuzVg/YAReW_7SHEI/AAAAAAAAyd0/LlA6PLc_bqYgSZ668wvcki1qqtK8dHiMACLcBGAsYHQ/s879/The%2BInvitation_Cover%2BImage%2B550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XjPbdjuuzVg/YAReW_7SHEI/AAAAAAAAyd0/LlA6PLc_bqYgSZ668wvcki1qqtK8dHiMACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Cover%2BImage%2B550.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>BLURB...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The first time I met Hudson Rothschild was at a wedding. I’d received an unexpected invitation to one of the swankiest venues in the city. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hudson was a groomsman and quite possibly the most gorgeous man I’d ever laid eyes on. He asked me to dance, and our chemistry was off the charts. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I knew it wasn’t a good idea to get involved with him, considering the wedding I was at. But our connection was intense, and I was having a great time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Though the fun came to a screeching halt when Hudson figured out I wasn’t who I’d said I was. You see, that unexpected invitation I received? Well, it hadn’t actually been addressed to me—it was sent to my ex-roommate who’d bounced a check for two months’ rent and moved out in the middle of the night. I figured she owed me an expensive night out, but I guess, technically, I was crashing the wedding.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once caught, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. As I bolted for the door, I might’ve plucked a few bottles of expensive champagne off the tables I passed, all while the gorgeous, angry groomsman was hot on my tail. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Outside, I jumped into a taxi. My heart ricocheted against my ribs as we drove down the block—but at least I’d escaped unscathed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Or so I thought.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Until I realized I’d left my cell phone behind at the table. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Take one guess who found it? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the crazy story of how Hudson Rothschild and I met. But trust me, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>GOODREADS LINK...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55923227-the-invitation">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55923227-the-invitation</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PURCHASE LINKS...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">US: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T84VZS6/">https://amzn.to/35NPG7b</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">UK: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08T84VZS6/">https://amzn.to/39CRC3f</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">CA: <a href="https://amzn.to/3qySjlf">https://amzn.to/3qySjlf</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">AU: <a href="http://amzn.to/39E8BCq">http://amzn.to/39E8BCq</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apple Books: <a href="https://apple.co/390y226">https://apple.co/390y226</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Paperback: <a href="https://amzn.to/32TqSsE">https://amzn.to/32TqSsE</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Audio: <a href="https://smarturl.it/w3bj77">https://smarturl.it/w3bj77</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Kobo: <a href="https://fave.co/38mUou3">https://fave.co/38mUou3</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">B&N: <a href="https://fave.co/3s1hfmT">https://fave.co/3s1hfmT</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Google Play: <a href="https://fave.co/2MzcikO">https://fave.co/2MzcikO</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nvrKzkvT5rY/YARedAghB4I/AAAAAAAAyd4/nVAMqxq-RVI2EY2KZIcPY1lJS1vyI1BwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B2_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nvrKzkvT5rY/YARedAghB4I/AAAAAAAAyd4/nVAMqxq-RVI2EY2KZIcPY1lJS1vyI1BwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Teaser%2B2_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-heRy_raRZkI/YAReiC1RP0I/AAAAAAAAyeA/-l9HaEv0DWoCXBoGzQmWuvPi1RaeNvR_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s502/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2BName%2Bblack2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="106" data-original-width="502" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-heRy_raRZkI/YAReiC1RP0I/AAAAAAAAyeA/-l9HaEv0DWoCXBoGzQmWuvPi1RaeNvR_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2BName%2Bblack2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xu6OgF2J5NQ/YARgZ9KnFoI/AAAAAAAAyeo/zTn6t1K43kIw4unbu8T8YrupHLqIj5tXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s524/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2Bheadshot2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xu6OgF2J5NQ/YARgZ9KnFoI/AAAAAAAAyeo/zTn6t1K43kIw4unbu8T8YrupHLqIj5tXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Inappropriate_Vi%2BKeeland%2Bheadshot2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">V</span>i Keeland</b> is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty-five languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">AUTHOR LINKS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Profile: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland">https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ViKeelandFanGroup">https://www.facebook.com/groups/ViKeelandFanGroup</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Website: <a href="http://www.vikeeland.com">http://www.vikeeland.com</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ViKeeland">https://twitter.com/ViKeeland</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland">http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland</a></span> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dfjn9wFm6o8/YARjAtbiFSI/AAAAAAAAyfs/RDGFR2G5ab80Bj9V4rEvVNBWqDJimVbSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Now%2BLive550.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dfjn9wFm6o8/YARjAtbiFSI/AAAAAAAAyfs/RDGFR2G5ab80Bj9V4rEvVNBWqDJimVbSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Now%2BLive550.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">....</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-80779860640331590602021-01-14T08:00:00.001-05:002021-01-14T08:00:10.690-05:00YOU'RE INVITED! Excerpt Reveal for THE INVITATION by Vi Keeland, Coming January 18th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHlGiO8XE5M/X_9okWF02OI/AAAAAAAAybI/38tI_KCqsd0-5lXd3BzPTi0DN2QLoUEsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/The%2BInvitation_Excerpt%2BReveal%2BBanner%2B550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHlGiO8XE5M/X_9okWF02OI/AAAAAAAAybI/38tI_KCqsd0-5lXd3BzPTi0DN2QLoUEsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/The%2BInvitation_Excerpt%2BReveal%2BBanner%2B550.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>EXCERPT REVEAL</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Title: The Invitation</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Author: Vi Keeland</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Release Date: January 18, 2021</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Excited about Vi Keeland’s upcoming release, The Invitation?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Check out this SNEAK PEEK of CHAPTER 1!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<div style="-moz-border-radius: 15px; background-color: #232323; border-radius: 15px; font-color: white; height: 300px; overflow: auto; padding: 3px;" width="100%"><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f732ada3-7fff-7699-b78c-23a0b51ef69d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">CHAPTER 1
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stella</span></p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I can’t do this…” I stopped halfway up the marble staircase.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher paused a few steps ahead of me. He walked back down to where I stood. “Sure you can. Remember the time we were in sixth grade and you had to make that presentation about your favorite president? You were a nervous wreck. You thought you were going to forget everything you’d memorized and be standing there with everyone staring at you.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Yes, what about it?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Well, this is no different. You got through that, didn’t you?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fisher had lost his mind. “My fears </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all came true</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that day. I got up in front of the blackboard and started to sweat. I couldn’t remember a single word I’d written. Everyone in the class stared, and then </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> heckled me.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher nodded. “Exactly. Your worst fear came true, and yet you lived to see another day. In fact, that day turned out to be the best day of your life.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I shook my head, bewildered. “How so?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That was the first time we’d ever been in the same class. I thought you were just another annoying girl like the rest of them. But after school that day, you ripped into me for teasing you while you were trying to do your presentation. That made me realize you </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weren’t</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> like the other girls. And that very day I decided we were going to be best friends.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I shook my head. “I didn’t speak to you for the rest of the school year.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher shrugged. “Yeah, but I won you over the next year, didn’t I? And right now you feel a little calmer than you did two minutes ago, don’t you?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I sighed. “I guess I do.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He held out his tuxedo-clad elbow. “Shall we go in?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I swallowed. As terrified as I was of what we were about to do, I also couldn’t wait to see what the inside of the library looked like all done up for a wedding. I’d spent countless hours sitting on these steps, wondering about the people walking by. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher waited patiently with his elbow out while I debated another minute. Finally, with another loud sigh, I took his arm. “If we wind up in jail, you’re going to have to come up with the bail money for both of us. I’m way too broke.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He flashed his movie-star smile. “Deal.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">As we climbed the remaining steps to the doors of the New York Public Library, I went over all of the details we’d discussed in the Uber on the way here. Our names for the evening were Evelyn Whitley and Maximilian Reynard. Max was in real estate—his family owned Reynard Properties—and I’d gotten my MBA at Wharton and recently moved back to the City. We both lived on the Upper East Side—at least that part was true. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Two uniformed waiters wearing white gloves stood at the towering entrance doors. One held a tray of champagne flutes, and the other a clipboard. Though my legs somehow kept going, my heart felt like it was trying to escape from my chest and take off in the opposite direction. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Good evening.” The waiter with the clipboard nodded. “May I have your names, please?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher didn’t flinch as he doled out the first of what would be a night full of lies. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The man, who I noticed had an earpiece in, scanned his list and nodded. He held a hand out for us to enter, and his partner handed us each bubbly. “Welcome. The ceremony will take place in the rotunda. Seating for the bride is on your left.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Thank you,” Fisher said. As soon as we were out of earshot, he leaned close. “See? Easy peasy.” He sipped his champagne. “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oooh, this is good</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had no idea how he was so calm. Then again, I also had no idea how he’d managed to talk me into this insanity. Two months ago, I’d come home from work to find Fisher, who was also my neighbor, raiding my refrigerator for leftovers—a common occurrence. As he ate two-day-old chicken Milanese, I’d sat at the kitchen table sorting through my mail and having a glass of wine. While we talked, I’d sliced open the back of an oversized envelope without checking the address on the front. The most stunning wedding invitation had been inside—black and white with raised gold leaf. It was like a gilded work of art. And the wedding was at the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of all places—right near my old office and where I’d often sat and had my lunch on the iconic stairs. I hadn’t visited in at least a year, so I was seriously pumped to get to go to a wedding there.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though I’d had no idea whose wedding it was—a distant relative I’d forgotten, maybe? The names weren’t even vaguely familiar. When I turned the envelope over, I quickly realized why. I’d opened my ex-roommate’s mail. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ugh</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. That figured. It wasn’t me who was invited to a fairytale wedding at one of my favorite places in the world.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But after a couple of glasses of wine, Fisher had convinced me it </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">be me going, and not Evelyn. It was the least my deadbeat ex-roommate could do for me, he’d said. After all, she’d snuck out in the middle of the night, taken some of my favorite shoes with her, and the check she’d left behind for the two months of back rent she owed had bounced. At a minimum, I ought to get to attend a ritzy, thousand-dollars-a-plate wedding, rather than her. Lord knew none of my friends were ever getting married at a venue like that. By the time we’d polished off the second bottle of merlot, Fisher had decided we would go in Evelyn’s place—crash the wedding for a fun night out, compliments of my no-good former roomie. Fisher had even filled out the response card, writing that two guests would attend, and slipped it into his back pocket to mail the next day. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I’d honestly forgotten all about our drunken plans until two weeks ago when Fisher came home with a tuxedo he’d borrowed from a friend for the upcoming nuptials. I’d balked and told him I wasn’t going to crash some expensive wedding for people I didn’t know, and he’d done what he always did: gotten me to think his bad idea wasn’t really that bad. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Until now. I stood in the middle of the sprawling lobby of what was probably a two-hundred-thousand-dollar wedding and felt like I might literally pee my pants. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Drink your champagne,” Fisher said. “It’ll help you relax a bit and put some color back in your cheeks. You look like you’re about to attempt to tell the class why you like John Quincy Adams so much.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I squinted at Fisher, though he smiled back, undeterred. I was certain nothing was going to help me loosen up. But nevertheless, I gulped back the contents of my glass. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fisher tucked one hand casually into his trouser pocket and looked around with his head held high, like he didn’t have a fear in the world. “I haven’t seen my old friend </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">party animal Stella</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in a long time,” he said. “Might she come out to play tonight?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I handed him my empty champagne flute. “Shut up and go find me another glass before I bolt.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He chuckled. “No problem, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evelyn.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> You just sit tight and try not to blow our cover before we even get to see the beautiful bride.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Beautiful? You don’t even know what she looks like.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“All brides look beautiful. That’s why they wear a veil—so you can’t see the ugly ones, and everything is magical on their special day.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“That’s so romantic.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Fisher winked. “Not everyone can be as pretty as me.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Three glasses of champagne helped calm me enough to sit through the wedding ceremony. And the bride definitely didn’t need a veil. Olivia Rothschild—or Olivia Royce, as she would be now—was gorgeous. I got a little teary eyed watching the groom say his vows. It was a shame the happy couple weren’t really my friends, because one of their groomsmen was insanely attractive. I might’ve daydreamed that Livi—that’s what I called her in my head—would fix me up with her new hubby’s buddy. But alas, tonight was a ruse, and I was no Cinderella story. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The cocktail hour took place in a beautiful room I’d never been in. I studied the artwork on the ceiling as I waited at the bar for my drink. Fisher had told me he needed to use the restroom, but I had a feeling he’d really snuck off to talk to the handsome waiter who had been eyeing him since we’d walked in. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Here you go, miss.” The bartender slid a drink over to me. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Thank you.” I took a quick look around to see if anyone was paying attention before dipping my nose inside the glass and taking a deep sniff. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Definitely not what I ordered.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Ummm, excuse me. Is it possible you made this with Beefeater gin and not Hendricks?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The bartender frowned. “I don’t think so.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I sniffed a second time, now certain he’d made it wrong. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">A man’s voice to my left caught me off guard. “You didn’t even taste it, yet you think he poured the wrong gin?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled politely. “Beefeater is made with juniper, orange peels, bitter almond, and blended teas, which produces a licorice taste. Hendricks is made of juniper, rose, and cucumber. There’s a different smell to each.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Are you drinking it straight or on the rocks?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Neither. It’s a gin martini, so it has vermouth.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“But you think you can smell that he used the wrong gin, without even tasting it?” The guy’s voice made it clear he didn’t think I could. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I have a very good sense of smell.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The man looked over my shoulder. “Hey, Hudson, I got a hundred bucks that says she can’t tell the difference between the two gins if we line them up.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A second man’s voice came from my right, this one behind my shoulder a bit. The sound was deep, yet velvety and smooth—sort of like the gin the bartender </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should’ve </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">used to make my drink. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Make it two hundred, and you’re on.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Turning to get a look at the man willing to wager on my abilities, I felt my eyes widen.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh. Wow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The gorgeous guy from the bridal party. I’d stared at him during most of the wedding. He was handsome from afar, but up close he was breathtaking in a way that made my belly flutter—dark hair, tanned skin, a chiseled jawline, and luscious, full lips. The way his hair was styled—slicked back and parted to the side—reminded me of an old-time movie star. What I hadn’t been able to see from the back row during the ceremony was the intensity of his ocean blue eyes. Those were currently scanning my face like I was a book. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I cleared my throat. “You’re going to bet two-hundred dollars that I can identify gin?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The gorgeous man stepped forward, and my olfactory sense perked up. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> smells better than any gin</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I wasn’t sure if it was his cologne or some sort of a body wash, but whatever it was, it took everything in my power to not lean toward him and take a deep whiff. The sinfully sexy man smelled as good as he looked. That pairing was my kryptonite. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">There was a hint of amusement in his voice. “Are you telling me it’s a bad bet?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I shook my head and turned back to speak to his friend. “I’ll play along with your little bet, but I’m in for two hundred, too.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When my eyes returned to the handsome man on my right, the corner of his lip twitched just slightly. “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nice</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” He lifted his chin to his friend. “Tell the bartender to pour a shot of Beefeater and a shot of Hendricks. Line ’em up in front of her, and don’t let us know which is which.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A minute later, I lifted the first shot glass and sniffed. It honestly wasn’t even necessary for me to smell the other, though I did it anyway, just to be safe. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Damn</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">… I should’ve bet more. This was too easy, like taking candy from a baby. I slid one shot glass forward and spoke to the waiting bartender. “This one is the Hendricks.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The bartender looked impressed. “She’s right.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Damn it,” the guy who had started this game huffed. He dug into his front pocket, pulled out an impressive billfold, and peeled off four hundred-dollar bills. Tossing them in our direction on top of the bar, he shook his head. “I’ll win it back by Monday.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Gorgeous Guy smiled at me as he collected his cash. Once I took mine, he lowered his head to whisper in my ear.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Nice job.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh my.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> His hot breath sent a shiver down my spine. It had been way too long since I’d had contact with a man. Sadly, my knees felt a little weak. But I forced myself to ignore it. “Thank you.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He reached around me to the bar and lifted one of the shots. Bringing it to his nose, he sniffed before setting it back down and smelling the other.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I don’t smell anything different.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“That just means you have a normal sense of smell.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Ah, I see. And yours is…extraordinary?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. “Why yes, it is.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He looked amused as he passed me one of the shots and held the other up in toast. “To being extraordinary,” he said.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I wasn’t generally a shot drinker, but what the hell? I clinked my glass with his before knocking it back. Maybe the alcohol would help settle the nerves this man seemed to have jolted awake.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I set my empty shot glass on the bar next to his. “I take it this is something the two of you do on a regular basis, since your friend plans to win it back by Monday?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Jack’s family and mine have been friends since we were kids. But the betting started when we went to the same college. I’m a Notre Dame fan, and he’s a USC fan. We were broke back then, so we used to bet a Taser zap on games.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“A Taser zap?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“His father was a cop. He gave him a Taser to keep under his car seat just in case. But I don’t think he envisioned his son taking hits of fifty-thousand volts when a last-minute interception made his team lose.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I shook my head. “That’s a little crazy.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Definitely not our wisest decision. At least I won a lot more than he did. A little brain damage might help explain some of his choices in college.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I laughed. “So today was just a continuation of that pattern, then?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Pretty much.” He smiled and extended his hand. “I’m Hudson, by the way.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Nice to meet you. I’m St—” I caught myself in the nick of time. “I’m Evelyn.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“So are you a gin aficionado, Evelyn? Is that why I didn’t smell anything different between the two?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. “I wouldn’t consider myself an aficionado of gin, no. To be honest, I mostly drink wine. But did I mention my occupation? I’m a fragrance chemist—a perfumist.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“You make perfume?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I nodded. “Among other things. I developed scents for a cosmetics and fragrance company for six years. Sometimes it was a new perfume, other times it was the scent for a wipe that removes makeup, or maybe a cosmetic that needs a more pleasant smell.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Pretty sure I never met a perfumist before.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. “Is it as exciting as you’d hoped?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He chuckled. “What exactly is the training for a job like that?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Well, I have a chemistry degree. But you can have all the education you want, and you still won’t be able to do the job unless you also have hyperosmia.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“And that is…”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“An enhanced ability to smell odors, an increased olfactory acuity.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“So you’re good at smelling shit?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I laughed. “Exactly.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">A lot of people think they have a good sense of smell, but they don’t really understand how heightened the sense is for someone with hyperosmia. Demonstrating always worked best. Plus, I really wanted to know what cologne he was wearing. So, I leaned in and took a deep inhale of Hudson. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Exhaling, I said, “Dove soap.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He didn’t look completely sold. “Yes, but that’s a pretty common soap choice.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. “You didn’t let me finish. Dove Cool Moisture. It’s got cucumber and green tea in it—also a common ingredient in gins, by the way. And you use L’Oreal Elvive shampoo, same as me. I can smell gardenia tahitensis flower extract, rosa canina flower extract, and a slight hint of coconut oil. Oh, and you use Irish Spring deodorant. I don’t think you’re wearing any cologne, actually.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson’s brows rose. “Now that’s impressive. The wedding party stayed in a hotel last night, and I forgot to pack my cologne.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Which one do you normally wear?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Ah… I can’t tell you that. What will we do on our second date for entertainment if we don’t play the sniff test?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Our second date? I didn’t realize we were going to have a first.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson smiled and held out his hand. “The night’s young, Evelyn. Dance with me?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">A knot in the pit of my stomach warned me it was a bad idea. Fisher and I were supposed to stick together and limit contact with other people to minimize our chances of getting caught. But glancing around, my date was nowhere in sight. Plus, this man was seriously magnetic. Somehow, before my brain even finished debating the pros and cons, I found myself putting my hand in his. He led me to the dance floor and wrapped one arm around my waist, leading with the other. Not surprisingly, he knew how to dance. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“So, Evelyn with the extraordinary sense of smell, I’ve never seen you before. Are you a guest or a plus one?” He looked around the room. “Is some guy giving me the evil eye behind my back right now? Am I going to need to get Jack’s Taser from the car to ward off a jealous boyfriend?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I laughed. “I am here with someone, but he’s just a friend.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“The poor guy…”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. Hudson’s flirting was over the top, yet I gobbled it up. “Fisher is more interested in the guy who was passing out champagne than me.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson held me a little closer. “I like your date much better than I did thirty seconds ago.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Goose bumps prickled my arms as he lowered his head, and his nose briefly brushed against my neck.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“You smell incredible. Are you wearing one of the perfumes you make?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I am. But it’s not one that can be ordered. I like the idea of having a true signature scent that someone can remember me by.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I don’t think you need the perfume to be remembered.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He led me around the dance floor with such grace, I wondered if he had taken professional lessons. Most men his age thought slow dancing meant rocking back and forth and grinding an erection against you. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“You’re a good dancer,” I said.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson responded by twirling us around. “My mother was a professional ballroom dancer. Learning wasn’t an option; it was a requirement if I wanted to be fed.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I laughed. “That’s really cool. Did you ever consider following in her footsteps?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Absolutely not. I grew up watching her suffer with hip bursitis, stress fractures, torn ligaments—it’s definitely not the glamorous profession they make it out to be on all those dance-contest TV shows. You gotta love what you do for a job like that.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“I think you have to love what you do for any job.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“That’s a very good point.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">The song came to an end, and the emcee told everyone to take their seats. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Where are you sitting?” Hudson asked.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I pointed to the side of the room where Fisher and I had been seated. “Somewhere over there. Table Sixteen.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">He nodded. “I’ll walk you.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">We approached the table at the same moment as Fisher, who was coming from the other direction. He looked between Hudson and me, and his face asked the question he didn’t say aloud. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Umm…this is my friend Fisher. Fisher, this is Hudson.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson extended his hand. “Nice to meet you.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">After shaking with a silent Fisher, who seemed to have forgotten how to speak, he turned to me and took my hand once again. “I should get back to my table with the rest of the wedding party.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Okay.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Save a dance for me later?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">I smiled. “I’d love to.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Hudson turned to walk away and then turned back. As he walked backwards, he called, “In case you pull a Cinderella on me and disappear, what’s your last name, Evelyn?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">Thankfully, him using my fake name reminded me not to give him my real one as I’d almost done the first time. “It’s Whitley.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Whitley?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh God</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Did he know Evelyn? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">His eyes swept over my face. “Beautiful name. I’ll see you later.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Uhh…okay, sure.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">When Hudson was barely out of earshot, Fisher leaned close to me. “My name’s supposed to be Maximilian, sweetheart.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Oh my God, Fisher. We have to leave.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Nah.” He shrugged. “It’s no big deal. We made up Maximilian anyway. I’m your plus one. No one knows the name of the person Evelyn brought. Though I still want to play a real estate tycoon.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“No, it’s not that.”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“Then what is it?”</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">“We have to leave because he knows...”</span></span></p><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white; font-family: verdana;">★★★</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>
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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU by Various Authors!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dJ_EPceEd8Q/X8KK2GGb0oI/AAAAAAAAyXM/wjAA_bi4Sag-jnfjD2mW8d66YmdodbERgCLcBGAsYHQ/s561/All%2BI%2BWant%2BFor%2BChristmas%2BIs%2BYou%2B-%2BTitle%2Bin%2BRed2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="561" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dJ_EPceEd8Q/X8KK2GGb0oI/AAAAAAAAyXM/wjAA_bi4Sag-jnfjD2mW8d66YmdodbERgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/All%2BI%2BWant%2BFor%2BChristmas%2BIs%2BYou%2B-%2BTitle%2Bin%2BRed2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It’s the season for gift giving! </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Six FREE standalone holiday short stories!</span></b></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W_x3opGzFyI/X8KK_cHZ86I/AAAAAAAAyXc/4A7VxhOWbIoxnYOfMlHw08S1ePAaSfT6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s896/All%2BI%2BWant%2BFor%2BChristmas%2BIs%2BYou%2B-%2BeBook%2Bhigh%2Bdef2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W_x3opGzFyI/X8KK_cHZ86I/AAAAAAAAyXc/4A7VxhOWbIoxnYOfMlHw08S1ePAaSfT6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/All%2BI%2BWant%2BFor%2BChristmas%2BIs%2BYou%2B-%2BeBook%2Bhigh%2Bdef2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Grab your free copy today, before it goes away! </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Available for only a limited time!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://BookHip.com/FTPABW">https://BookHip.com/FTPABW</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>ABOUT THE BOOK...</b></span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Lights Out Love by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cole is utterly annoyed by his neighbor Josie’s obnoxious Christmas display. When she blows out power on the street, he marches over and lets her know what he thinks of the mess she’s made. But when the only generator in town brings the two nemeses together…the Christmas display isn’t the only thing burning bright.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>The Forbidden Christmas Gift by Samantha Young...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It’s Christmas at Shaw’s Department store in Edinburgh! Reid Shaw should feel nothing but gratified by his success. But he’s not satisfied because the sexy Scot wants forbidden fruit for Christmas: Evan Munro. Reid’s Evan’s boss. He’s thirteen years older than her. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh … and she’s his best friend’s little sister. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Christmas Magic by Aurora Rose Reynolds...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A broken down truck, twelve Christmas trees, and a little holiday magic help, Milly Hendricks and Tyler Speeds find their happily ever after. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Ho Ho Holy Hotness by Lani Lynn Vale...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ho ho holy hotness—those were the first words out of Nola’s mouth the first time she saw Soren walk up the length of her driveway. Soren the delivery guy who also happened to be an emergency room doctor, have abs of steel, and delivered a mean package. She knew he was the one from the moment that he gave her his candy cane.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Alaskan Jack by TL Swan...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Holly's having a bad day. A missed plane, an unexpected road trip, and the storm of all storms. When a mountain man comes to her rescue, taking refuge in his cabin is her only choice. 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PANDORA'S PLEASURE by Vanessa Fewings is NOW LIVE!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMH6Hrg-S54/X7U4fMVgYAI/AAAAAAAAyVg/rTffG1Y9puA9cxp-_FG35HjZEbDWuxx5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s550/Pandora%2527s%2BPleasure%2BLive%2BImg_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="550" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YMH6Hrg-S54/X7U4fMVgYAI/AAAAAAAAyVg/rTffG1Y9puA9cxp-_FG35HjZEbDWuxx5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Pandora%2527s%2BPleasure%2BLive%2BImg_2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"This is a crazy, super sexy, and suspenseful story that I won't soon forget."</i> -Carol's Reviews</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now LIVE → Pandora’s Pleasure by USAT Bestselling Author Vanessa Fewings</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">#1Click <a href="https://books2read.com/PandoraPleasure">https://books2read.com/PandoraPleasure</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>"Pandora's Pleasure is an intoxicating mix of political intrigue, erotic romance and suspense. In this standalone romance Vanessa Fewings brings together two unlikely and yet destined characters."</i> -Darkreads</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Available on Amazon or Read with Kindle Unlimited</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">💎 <b>BOOK BLURB:</b> 💎</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">USA TODAY Bestselling Author Vanessa Fewings returns with a new romance, ushering in an alpha for the ages.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Damien Godman is a dangerous mystery.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There’s nothing quite like his thrust of power. Once you feel it inside you, you’ll never be the same. It creates a whitehot passion. One that I crave. His strong body. His willful mind. His unbreakable spirit. Just thinking of him makes me melt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">It wasn’t always this way. This man once made me seethe with hatred. He was my enemy. Now he makes me burn with desire. Because he became my lover.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But this is a love that comes with a price. There’s only so deep you can dive before you’re lost forever. I should escape before it’s too late.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Before Damien completely consumes me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">💎</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PURCHASE NOW AT...</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">💎</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon US: <a href="https://amzn.to/3ntqGIB">https://amzn.to/3ntqGIB</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon CA: <a href="https://amzn.to/3f4T5BC">https://amzn.to/3f4T5BC</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon UK: <a href="https://amzn.to/3lDCmIq">https://amzn.to/3lDCmIq</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Amazon AU: <a href="https://amzn.to/3kznZU3">https://amzn.to/3kznZU3</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Craves the Angst Review of</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>PANDORA'S PLEASURE</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>by Vanessa Fewings</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Reviewer's Note:</i></b> <i>I received an eARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>5+ Stars!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>... my favorite book of 2020!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Review:</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><u>Pandora’s Pleasure </u></b>is hands down, my favorite book of 2020! Full of intrigue. Captivating characters. Erotic scenes. Brilliant writing. Duel POV’s. And an addicting story.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I absolutely LOVED this read.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Story/Characters...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pandora Bardot was reared since birth to be the perfect status symbol to represent her family’s illustrious royal lineage. Molded by the finest eduction, taught the highest social graces and etiquette with unparalleled personal representation, her future was never her choice. That became obvious when she was paired with Damien Godman, eldest son to the nation’s most affluent banking tycoon. She’s beautiful, sensual, educated, and full of hope. He’s gorgeous, dark, mysterious, jaded, and cold.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Their attraction was indisputable, but it was supposed to be a marriage of convenience, both settling into a life planned out for them as their families ascend in power...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">... true love and an erotic awakening were never supposed to be part of “the plan”.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>Thoughts...</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ahhh, I just fell so deeply in love with Pandora and Damien.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When introduced, Pandora is very innocent in the ways of the world. She’s sweetly naive, being packed away her whole life in a gilded cage of privilege and innocence. Yet she is open-minded, ready to explore new and adventurous things. Under Damien’s dominance and tutelage, she experiences true awakening and freedom. When she emerged from her protected cacoon, she did so splendidly, becoming fiercely brave, strong and a real heroine of the story. Pandora shined so brightly. She is definitely in my top five beloved female characters. She really had me falling quite in love with her.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Damien was so mysterious. Even with us getting his POV, I found him to be mystifying and a bit devious. He was privileged as well, but he’s seen and experienced the lows of life and acquired real-world experience. Hiding his debauchery behind a high-class facade, he yearns for a partner to share that side of himself with. Thinking he had to accept a life devoid of those pleasures, and sure Pandora is nothing but a spoiled debutante, he’s as surprised as she is to find commonality. I found it fascinating to watch Damien’s shift as he realized the precious and rare gifts lying underneath Pandora’s own facade. I loved him so much!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i>The Wrap Up:</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was an extraordinary story with supremely superb writing. Vanessa Fewings wordsmithing always inspires, but this book was filled with beautifully written prose and steamy scenes. The characters are sophisticated, sexy, and full of dark charm. She has a way of writing wonderfully rounded characters that still maintain their mystery and aloofness, which ALWAYS has me yearning to know more about them. Damien and Pandora are absolutely on that list. We got a romantic, sensually charged, completed story, and yet I still wanted to know more, more, more!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a read ... and read again kind of book.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>....</b></span></p>Craves the Angsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09838499773546034818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818129102684230838.post-48719242848797675132020-05-04T08:00:00.000-04:002020-05-04T09:49:00.285-04:00BLOG TOUR with BOOK EXCERPT - FALLEN CREST CAMPOUT by Tijan is now available:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t like this.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A hand went to the back of my chair, a head popped up between our two front seats, and that was announced. Mason was in the driver’s seat and I was in the passenger seat. Logan looked at each of us. He was wearing a distinct frown-smirk combo on his face as he said his piece. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Problem was, he’d been saying it since we left Boston, since we landed in California, and since we’d been in the rental and driving three hours past Fallen Crest. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’d been said. It’d been heard. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were now at the part where we wanted to murder my brother-in-law. Or, correction, where I wanted to murder my brother-in-law. Mason was stoic and driving. He was able to get in the zone and tune Logan out. Taylor was sitting in her chair, reading on her phone. She had the whole tuning-out thing too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not me. I was a mom, so somehow that meant I always had to be aware and alert, and now I was close to grinding my teeth and yelling for a Logan time-out. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Five minutes in the back, please. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mason grunted. “Tough shit.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nice. Maybe he wasn’t so ‘tuned out.’ </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked at Taylor. “Can you keep him under control?” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She glanced up from her phone. “You know the answer to that question. You’ve known him longer.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Touché. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“<i>I’m</i> not sleeping with him.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taylor just laughed. “Shouldn’t have said that. He’s probably refraining from twenty different inappropriate jokes as I’m talking.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“<i>Ahem.</i>” Logan gave us both a look. “It’s because I love both of you—in <i>different</i> ways—and respect both of you that I’m not touching that. But Sam…” Logan leveled me with an aggrieved look, his eyebrows raised. “Can you watch what you say? Old Logan would’ve been all over that one, and can you imagine the innuendos?” He gestured to himself, his face tight. </span><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“But I’m here. Being polite—” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Sorry. I thought since you’re older and in law school, you’d be more mature.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It’s like you don’t know me at all.” But he was grinning. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Logan.” Insert some assertive tone here. I had to make my point. “We got a babysitter for the weekend. I got permission for a full weekend off from my training. Your brother is on a much-needed vacation before football training starts, and I have been needing Heather time even though I saw her a few weeks ago.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a point. What was it? “So shut it, okay?” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was my point. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“All I’m saying is that we were supposed to do the yacht. Nate and Matteo were up for it. Now suddenly we’re doing a camping thing. I’m not clear on the why?” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mason glanced into the rearview mirror. “It was Nate’s idea. He said something about family research. What’s your issue? You like camping.” </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s when we were young. We did stupid shit back then like. We’re old now. If we go camping, I prefer it to be on things like yachts. Or we stay in a mega-mansion and our camping is napping by the pool. I like that type of camping.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taylor frowned at him. “Babe.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shot her a look, frowning slightly, but his face softened. He reached out, touching her leg. “It’s nothing. I’ll get over it.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TITLE: <b>Maximum Dare</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SERIES: <b>standalone</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AUTHOR: <b>Vanessa Fewings</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GENRE: <b>Contemporary Romance</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RELEASE DATE: <b>April 30, 2020</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RATING: <b>5 Stars!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I’m in love with both of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I don’t fall to my death first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I absolutely loved this read! From the enticing cover to the gratifying last page, this whole book is filled with swoon and fun. I couldn’t get enough, and when I finished the last word, I was left with an insatiable desire to start it all again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daisy Whitby is a twenty-three-year-old shopgirl who dreams of more. She’s sweet and loving if not a bit introverted and shy. And she’s just been dumped. It was so unexpected, she’s left in a tailspin of “what did I do wrong?” and “how did this happen?”. Now she’s on a reckless mission to expose her ex’s new girlfriend to be the shallow boy-hopper she believes her to be. There’s only one thing standing in her way - the irresistibly hot older brother who came out of nowhere... and who she can’t stop thinking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Max Marquis is an extremely successful lawyer in Rio. He has taken time away from his busy schedule to visit his home in England, set to have some quality family time, and a bit of relaxation. But what he finds instead is a bright-eyed, sweet and adorable girl left heartbroken by his younger brother. There’s an immediate connection and sizzling chemistry... and a whole lot of complications in between.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the moment Daisy and Max have their meet-greet, we were taken on a fun-filled road trip of lighthearted entertainment and slow-build romance. Daisy’s desperation and life-affirming dares both broke my heart and had me laughing out loud. The situations she puts herself in were awkward and hilarious. She was beautiful and batty all at the same time. I simply adored her! Max was patient and kind, sexy and cuddly. I loved this man! And the story itself? Just a perfect, PERFECT romance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time I dig into a <i>Vanessa Fewings</i> book, I find the meaning of “indulgence”. She writes beautifully, taking the reader on an incredible journey with vibrant backdrops and colorful characters. This authors books ALWAYS intoxicated and beguile me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">writes both contemporary and suspense romance novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PERVADE LONDON (duet 1) is her latest romantic suspense novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PERFUME GIRL (stand-alone) is her contemporary romance novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Readers can also listen to Vanessa as she hosts the podcast The Romance Show, a captivating podcast featuring authors and industry professionals in the romance genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanessa can be found on her Facebook Fan Page and in The Romance Lounge, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Goodreads. She enjoys connecting with fans all around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website: <a href="https://vanessafewings.com/">https://vanessafewings.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1507905.Vanessa_Fewings">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1507905.Vanessa_Fewings</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Fallen Crest Campout, an all-new not-to-be-missed Fallen Crest and The Crew series crossover novella by New York Times bestselling author Tijan, is available now!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My planned trip for two unexpectedly turned into a trip for one. Rather than let my breakup get me down, I packed my bags and decided a week at a luxury resort was just what I needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until I overheard a gorgeous man pretending to be someone he wasn’t in order to steal a reservation from a guest who hadn’t shown up yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I realized there were two rooms, instead of calling him out, I pretended to be his sister. That’s how the story of “Milo and Maddie Hooker” began. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My fake brother spent the next few days showing me around his hometown. When it was time to leave, neither of us really wanted to go yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as hot as our chemistry was, we never crossed the line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milo knew I’d just come out of a tough relationship and didn’t want to mess with a vulnerable woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So instead, at the end of our trip, we made a pact to meet again in three months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when I got back home, reality hit in a big way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I worried I may have lost my handsome stranger forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or had the memory of him just become my favorite souvenir?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With over two million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twenty-five languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was my in - my chance to warn him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">None of his mates from his football team were here. The only reason I’d found out about this party was because I’d seen Morgan showing off about the event on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turning up like this probably seemed a bit stalkerish – but trust me, this was about saving a man who’d once saved me…back when all I’d known was grief. This was me looking out for Nick now, making sure he didn’t blow up his life for a girl who could never truly love him. It was easy to see why she’d hunted him down. Nick was a rising football star destined to follow in his dad’s iconic footsteps.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why did he have to look so adorable with his tousled dark blond hair and expressive grey eyes? Chiseled features made him stand out even in this freakishly good-looking crowd, along with his athletic physique. I was now entering the hating phase…the I-can’t-bear-to- be-in-the-same-room phase. Yet Nick still made my insides do a flip-flop. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last few weeks had been crushing in so many ways. The house we’d shared in Bermondsey was going to be sold. Moving out was inevitable because Nick was now living with Morgan in her Chelsea high-rise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That girl was my opposite: Tall and blond and a first prize winner in the genetics lottery. I was a brunette with blue eyes who wore round-rimmed glasses – my look was more the girl next door. Not wild and sexy like Morgan, a woman who chased after endless fun and thrived on surprises.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before she’d stolen my man, I’d followed Morgan’s make-up tutorials posted for and viewed by millions. She had two speeds – partying fashionista or poolside babe. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My speed was literally in reverse. There was no competing with a woman who was an expert at wooing men with her fake charm. And I’d never have the kind of money it would take to look like her. She indulged in cosmetic surgery to tweak imperceptible imperfections, giving her a flawless, airbrushed appearance that was hard to imitate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nick was destined to become another “Most Hated” post on Morgan’s Instagram page after she’d tired of him and moved on. It was inevitable. That was her thing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn’t let it happen to him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few minutes alone with Nick and I’d be able to show him the evidence I’d found on Morgan’s social media pages to prove she was bad news. He seemed oblivious to the long list of exes mentioned in her blog posts – whimsical fancies who formed the fodder for her emotional breakdowns and at the same time garnered her more followers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But even knowing all of this, I still hesitated – guilt for stealing that envelope niggling at my conscience.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Don’t do it.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Don’t lower yourself to her standards.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rummaging around in my handbag, I retrieved the envelope ready to slip it back into Morgan’s Prada purse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Oh, no!</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They were leaving.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hand in hand, Nick and Morgan waved goodbye to the crowd like they were a celebrity couple. My worried glare tracked their movement along the other side of the window.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having not quite used up my stalker quota for the evening, I decided what the hell and grabbed my parka from the barstool, pulling it on. I followed them out and was hit with a blast of freezing cold January wind that stung my face.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A limo was waiting for them. A chauffeur wearing a grey suit opened the back door in a formal gesture so that Morgan could elegantly slide into the back.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nick stopped short of climbing in behind her to pin me with a look of disbelief. My humiliation rose with each faltering step and I forced a weak smile to reassure him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It’s just me, your ex. The girl with no life who refuses to let you go.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gathered the courage to sprint forward, holding out the envelope. “She dropped this—”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SLAM!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My glasses went flying as I collided with a rock-hard male body. My cheek squished against a woolen coat as my body fell heavily against his, a flood of pheromones rushing through me from his heady cologne. It reminded me of endless nights filled with sordid pleasures. At first I was reluctant to look up, afraid I might be disappointed after that incredible preview…</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hi, there,” he said, his tone amused, his accent seductively foreign.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dazed, I peered up at his face. He was too tall to kiss, this dark stranger with a three-day stubble. His masculine scent stirred a forbidden desire deep inside of me and I couldn’t speak for a moment. He was so damn gorgeous. His temples revealed just a hint of grey – making me think he was in his thirties. His hypnotic brown eyes crinkled with kindness as he gave me a dazzling smile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thank you?” I finally said. The response had made sense in my head.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He must have found it humorous, as I saw his full, kissable lips quirk up in a smile – a smile that suddenly faded as he glanced over my shoulder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone from behind me gripped my arms and dragged me away from him, forcing me to trot on unsteady heels towards an SUV. I had no choice but to move in that direction, feeling dizzy as the world whooshed by.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My handbag slipped off my shoulder and landed on the ground as that someone then shoved me against the front of the vehicle, pushing me forward until my cheek pressed against the hard metal of the car bonnet. I tried to push myself up, but my hands were suddenly drawn behind my back and I was held down, incapacitated – and vaguely aware that the handsome stranger was watching.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My cheeks ablaze, I cringed at the thought that Nick was seeing this, too.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lifted my head a little and saw Morgan climb out of the limo. She whipped out her iPhone and pointed it in my direction. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flash was blinding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’re probably wondering what I’m doing hanging off the edge of London’s tallest building, The Shard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, yeah, and they’re half brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I’m in love with both of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, when it comes to love, you have to hang on tight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">writes both contemporary and suspense romance novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PERVADE LONDON (duet 1) is her latest romantic suspense novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> PERVADE MONTEGO BAY (duet 2) is available now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PERFUME GIRL (stand-alone) is her contemporary romance novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Readers can also listen to Vanessa as she hosts the podcast The Romance Show, a captivating podcast featuring authors and industry professionals in the romance genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vanessa can be found on her Facebook Fan Page and in The Romance Lounge, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Goodreads. She enjoys connecting with fans all around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website: <a href="https://vanessafewings.com/">https://vanessafewings.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1507905.Vanessa_Fewings">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1507905.Vanessa_Fewings</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Release date April 27th, 2020</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Excerpt from</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><span style="color: white;">MY FAVORITE SOUVENIR by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Good afternoon. You’ve reached the Four Seasons Resort, Vail, Colorado. How may I direct your call?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took a deep breath. “Hi. I checked out early this morning. My reservation was for ten days, but I only wound up staying two nights. Is there any chance you might still have my room available? Or any room, for that matter? My flight was canceled because of the storm.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Let me take a look. What’s your last name?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Appleton.” I shook my head. “Actually, the reservation was under Ellis. My fiancé’s last name.” <i>Or ex-fiancé.</i> But I’d let her call me Mrs. Ellis at this point if it meant I could have a place to sleep tonight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Give me one moment and I’ll check.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thank you.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sat down in the lobby of the Best Western, the third hotel I’d been to in the last two hours. It was dumb of me to check out this morning. Though, at least I was consistent. After making the bad decision to go on my previously planned honeymoon alone, I’d brilliantly decided to check out only two days into the trip…<i>without</i> looking at the weather report for Vail. When I arrived at the airport, I had no idea that a blizzard was on the way. But the airline had assured me my flight was still scheduled as planned. And they’d kept their word right up until five minutes before we were supposed to board, when they announced a two-hour delay. Two hours turned into three, and three turned into five, and when we hit six hours of sitting on uncomfortable plastic seats outside the gate, they finally admitted it wasn’t going to happen. Every other flight had been canceled by then. And now, every hotel seemed to be full.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hotel operator came back on the line.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hi, Mrs. Ellis?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cringed at being called that, but answered anyway. “Yes?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I’m sorry. After you checked out, your room was rebooked. We’re actually sold out for the night because of the storm.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sighed. <i>Of course you are.</i> “Okay. Thank you.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was just my luck lately. I called four more hotels, until one said they might have a few rooms available. Apparently they had guests that hadn’t checked in yet and were in the process of making calls to confirm whether they would still be arriving today. Rooms would be freed up on a first-come, first-served basis. So I decided to take a chance and head on over. It was already seven o’clock at night, and there was no point in sitting here anymore. Surprisingly, Uber was still running, even though the airport had called it quits hours ago. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Out front, the snow was coming down hard. A giant SUV with snow chains on the tires pulled up in front of the door. I couldn’t check the license plate or get a look at the make and model of the vehicle since it was covered in snow, so I walked over to the car and motioned for the driver to roll down the window. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Are you Hazel?” the older woman behind the wheel asked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I smiled. “Yes.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Heading over to the Snow Eagle Lodge?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Yes, please.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though the next hotel was only two miles away, it took fifteen minutes to get there. By the time we pulled up, the conditions were almost white-out. It couldn’t be safe driving in this anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“God, it’s really terrible out here,” I said as I pulled up the hood of my jacket. “Be careful driving tonight.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, I will, honey. The next place I’m driving is home. I only picked you up because you were on my way. Good thing you’re at your hotel now. No one is going to be on the roads tonight anymore.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Great.</i> This place really better have a room for me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I climbed out of the SUV, a gust of snow smacked me in the face, despite the fact that we were parked under the building’s overhang. The wind made it look like someone had shaken a snow globe, hard. Inside the hotel, I wiped flakes from my eyelashes and glanced around the lobby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Oh no.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This didn’t look good. A line of at least thirty or forty people snaked five rows deep, waiting to get to the reception desk. I sighed and wheeled my luggage to behind the last person. More than half an hour later, I finally reached the front. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hi. I called earlier, and the person I spoke to said some rooms might become available, that you were going to contact guests who hadn’t showed and see if they were still coming?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The woman nodded with a frown. “Yeah. I can put you on our waitlist. But we’re still making calls, and to be honest, it’s not looking too good.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My shoulders slumped. “Okay. Well, I guess please add me to your wait list.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The woman lifted a clipboard and set it down on the counter. She thumbed through a few pages and turned it to face me, pointing at the next available line, which was two from the bottom of the page. “Just add your name and cell phone number.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I scribbled both and let the pages above the one I’d been writing on fan back into place. Noticing the sheet at the top looked just like the one I’d signed, five or six pages down, I glanced through all the papers. There had to be at least a hundred names and telephone numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Are these <i>all</i> on your waiting list?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hotel clerk nodded. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How many people haven’t checked in?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I think about a dozen.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh God. This really wasn’t good. But maybe people had just added their names and left, like in a packed restaurant. Maybe the bulk of people ahead of me on the list had found other hotels.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turning around, whatever hope I’d talked myself into immediately deflated. Every seat in the lobby area behind me was taken. Some were even sitting on the floor, leaning against their luggage. With very few options, I wandered over and found an empty space on a carpeted area of the floor, not too far from the concierge desk. Though I knew it was futile, I took out my iPad and continued to search for a hotel with availability. Even if I found one, getting there would be a miracle on its own at this point.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nearby concierge desk had been empty while I scrolled and made calls, but now two women walked over. One I recognized as the manager, since I’d spent a half hour staring at the people behind the front desk while I’d waited in line. The other had on a nametag and held a clipboard. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop on their conversation from where I sat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“These seven we still haven’t reached,” the manager said. “All of the other rooms have been checked in, or we’ve reallocated them to people from the waiting list.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The employee flipped through the pages and looked around the full hotel lobby. “Jeez. And this storm is supposed to stick around for days.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a guy standing on the other side of the concierge desk. His back was to the ladies talking, but he craned his neck, and I thought he, too, might be eavesdropping. Figuring he was probably just as bored as me, I went back to my iPad search—until a few minutes later when I noticed him scribbling something with a pen on the inside of his hand. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What the hell is he doing?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wrote for a few seconds and then seemed to go back to eavesdropping. The manager had walked away, leaving the employee to make her phone calls. She hung up from one call and dialed again. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hi. This is Catherine from the Snow Eagle Lodge. I’m trying to reach Milo or Madeline Hooker.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The minute she said the names, the eavesdropper scribbled on his hand again. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catherine continued leaving her message. “I just wanted to confirm whether you’d still be arriving this evening. Your reservation is guaranteed, so we’ll hold it as long as you need. However, if the storm has perhaps caused a change in your travel plans, we do have a long wait list of guests who could use the two rooms you have booked. My number here is 970-555-4000, if you could please return my call at your earliest convenience. Thank you.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The same thing went on with the next two calls. Catherine left a message and the eavesdropper scribbled. Curious about what he was up to, I kept my eye on him. After the hotel clerk finished making her calls, she went back to the front desk. Eavesdropper picked up his backpack and casually strolled down a nearby hallway. I leaned to watch where he was going, and he eventually pulled up his hood and exited out a side door I hadn’t even noticed was there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought it was odd, but I figured the show was over. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But a few minutes later, a guy with the same ski jacket walked through the front lobby door. He pulled his hood down, and I got a look at his face for the very first time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Damn, he was handsome. Medium brown hair that was kind of shaggy and needed a cut, full lips, hazel eyes, and tanned skin. His warm skin tone really stood out against the pasty color of most people in Colorado this time of the year, including me. It was a shame I loathed men right now, because he was seriously gorgeous. He dusted some of the snow from the shoulders of his jacket and went to wait in line. It was much shorter now, with only two men in front of him, mostly because people weren’t braving the storm anymore. I had no idea what possessed me to do it, but I decided to get up and wait behind the guy. Maybe I was imagining things to keep myself entertained, but I had the distinct feeling he was up to something.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it was his turn at the front desk, I moved as close as I could to listen without seeming like a stalker.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Hi. I’m checking in,” the man said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Great. What’s your last name, sir?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He cleared his throat. “Hooker. Milo Hooker.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I squinted. The guy was totally full of shit. I knew it! </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The unsuspecting hotel clerk punched a bunch of keys on her keyboard and smiled. “I have your reservation right here. Two rooms for two nights, breakfast included. Is that right?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Uhhh…” The guy nodded. “Yeah. I booked two rooms. But it turns out I’m only going to need the one.” He looked over his shoulder. “Looks like you won’t have a problem filling the other one, though.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She smiled. “No, we definitely won’t. I’ll just need a credit card and a picture ID please, Mr. Hooker.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I waited. This was the moment of truth. If he wasn’t actually Milo Hooker, he was going to have to make up some excuse. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The guy reached into his front pocket like he was going to pull out his wallet. For a second, I thought I might’ve been wrong, but then he pulled out a wad of cash.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I lost my wallet on the slopes today. Luckily, I had some cash sent over through Western Union before the storm got too bad. Can I just pay cash?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The young woman hesitated. “You don’t have any ID at all? I’m not supposed to check people in without photo identification.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fake Milo poured on the charm. He leaned forward and showed off a set of cavernous dimples. “We could take a selfie together?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The woman giggled. <i>She actually giggled.</i> “Let me just check with my manager.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She disappeared into the back and returned with the manager a few minutes later. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A crazy idea popped into my head. <i>She said there were two rooms</i>… I made a spur-of-the-moment decision and approached the counter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“There you are, Milo.” I rested my hand on the guy’s shoulder. “My flight was canceled. I hope they still have our rooms.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fake Milo turned and looked at me with his brows furrowed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was going to blow it if I didn’t do something, so I turned my attention to the two hotel employees. “My brother and I booked rooms here for two nights, but I was trying to get out before the storm. Obviously I had no luck. I spent the entire day in the airport. Please tell me you still have my room? I’m dying for a hot bath.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milo looked at me, then the hotel employees, then back at me. I smiled and arched a brow. For a second, I almost felt bad for the guy. He looked so bewildered. Since he still seemed to be at a loss for words, I figured I should continue talking. “We went skiing early this morning and had our backpacks stolen. Between that and the storm coming, I figured it was a sign that I should get back home early. Apparently Mother Nature had other plans. We should have two rooms—Milo and Madeline Hooker. Someone actually just left me a message on my cell asking us to confirm. Her name was Catherine, I believe.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The desk clerk nodded. “That was me. The storm has a lot of people stranded here unexpectedly without rooms, so we were checking in with guests that hadn’t arrived yet.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The manager looked back and forth between Fake Milo and me. “We’ll have to take a hundred-dollar deposit for incidentals on each room since you don’t have a credit card.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I smiled. “Of course.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She nodded to her employee. “Check them in. It’s fine.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The man next to me still had his mouth hanging open. So I dug into my purse, being careful not to show my wallet, which was supposed to have been stolen, and scooped out all of the cash. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How much are the rooms?” I asked the clerk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Let’s see. With tax, they come to three-hundred-and-forty-two dollars each, for the two nights, and then we have to collect the hundred-dollar deposit.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Shit.</i> I didn’t think I had that much cash. I counted the money in my hand and slid it over in front of Fake Milo. “Can you spot me forty dollars? You know I’m good for it, bro.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Uh, yeah. Sure.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After we paid and got the room keys, we walked side by side to the elevator bank in silence. It wasn’t until we were alone and the elevator doors slid shut that Milo turned to me. “What the hell just happened?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I laughed. “We just got rooms, that’s what happened.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He shook his head. “But who are you?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I noticed you standing near the concierge desk and eavesdropping while she called the guests who hadn’t arrived yet.” I reached forward and took the man’s hand, opening it to display blue ink. “You wrote down the names of the guests. I thought it was odd, so I followed you to the front desk to see what you were up to. When you made up that bogus story about losing your wallet so you could justify not having any ID, I knew you were full of shit.” I shrugged. “When the woman said there were two rooms on the reservation, I saw an opening and took it.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How did you know I’d go along with it?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I smiled. “I didn’t. But that’s what made it so much fun!” I covered my chest with my hand. “My heart feels like it’s trying to ricochet out of my ribcage at this moment. It’s been a long time since I did anything risky like that.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His eyes roamed my face. I got the feeling he still wasn’t sure what to make of me, even though I’d just explained what I’d done. He looked down at my lips, which were still curved in an excited smile. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why is that?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My forehead wrinkled. “Why is what?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why’s it been a long time since you’ve done anything risky? It looks to me like you enjoyed it.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I blinked a few times, not having expected a question that would tug at my heartstrings, and my smile fell. “I don’t know. I guess I kind of turned into a different person over the last few years.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fake Milo’s eyes locked with mine. We’d gone from pulling off a crazy stunt and laughing, to an odd seriousness. His eyes flickered to my lips and back once again. “That’s a shame. You have a great smile.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warmth spread through me, and I couldn’t seem to unlock my eyes from the stranger’s—at least until the elevator dinged and the doors opened on the third floor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This is us,” he said. “Rooms 320 and 321.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh. Right. Okay.” I stepped out and followed the signs to our rooms. Since we were, of course, family, they’d put us right next to each other. We stood a few feet apart as we opened our respective doors. As my lock unlatched and I turned the handle to go inside, something dawned on me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I almost forgot! I owe you forty dollars for the room.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No, don’t be silly. I just didn’t have enough cash and didn’t want to hand the woman a credit card when we weren’t supposed to have ID. I’ll just throw my bag in the room and go downstairs to find an ATM. They must have one somewhere.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I thought you couldn’t wait to take a hot bath, or was that part of the act?”</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I laughed. “No, it actually wasn’t. I wasn’t lying when I said I spent the entire day at the airport. A hot bath sounds pretty amazing right about now. But I can grab your cash first. It won’t take me long.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fake Milo scratched at the stubble on his chin. “I’ll tell you what. I’m going to take a quick shower and then go downstairs to the bar for a drink. Take your bath. You can find me there afterward to give me the money.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Okay.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Alright, well, enjoy your soak, sis.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’re probably wondering what I’m doing hanging off the edge of London’s tallest building, The Shard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I don’t fall to my death first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, when it comes to love, you have to hang on tight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maximum Dare is the STANDALONE contemporary romance novel from Vanessa Fewings, USA TodayBestselling Author of the The ICON Trilogy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">writes both contemporary and suspense romance novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PERFUME GIRL (stand-alone) is her contemporary romance novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Readers can also listen to Vanessa as she hosts the podcast The Romance Show, a captivating podcast featuring authors and industry professionals in the romance genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vanessa can be found on her Facebook Fan Page and in The Romance Lounge, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Goodreads. She enjoys connecting with fans all around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Website: <a href="https://vanessafewings.com/">https://vanessafewings.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I’ve narrowed it down to two men:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">writes both contemporary and suspense romance novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> PERVADE MONTEGO BAY (duet 2) is available now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’re probably wondering what I’m doing hanging off the edge of London’s tallest building, The Shard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I’ve narrowed it down to two men:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh, yeah, and they’re half brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I’m in love with both of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I don’t fall to my death first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, when it comes to love, you have to hang on tight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Daisy:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’re probably wondering what I’m doing hanging off the edge of London’s tallest building, The Shard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can explain. Kind of. Because I’m not even sure who the invitation came from to join the Dare Club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I’ve narrowed it down to two men:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max Marquis, a tall, gorgeous Brazilian lawyer with an accent to die for and Nick Banham, a dashing English athlete who may have just broken my heart. Their reasons? Could be love. Could be a desire to watch me suffer. Or maybe those two are the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh, yeah, and they’re half brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I’m in love with both of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So you see, thrill-seeking is just what I might need to sort this all out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I don’t fall to my death first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, when it comes to love, you have to hang on tight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maximum Dare is the STANDALONE contemporary romance novel from Vanessa Fewings, USA TodayBestselling Author of the The ICON Trilogy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Fewings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">writes both contemporary and suspense romance novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PERVADE LONDON (duet 1) is her latest romantic suspense novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> PERVADE MONTEGO BAY (duet 2) is available now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PERFUME GIRL (stand-alone) is her contemporary romance novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THE ICON TRILOGY is a romantic suspense about Zara Leighton, London’s most brilliant art investigator on the hunt for the notorious thief known as Icon. Vanessa’s previous novels include the bestselling Enthrall Sessions, a romance series spanning eight books about a woman who gets swept up into Enthrall, L.A.’s premier club that caters to the secret desires of the elite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Readers can also listen to Vanessa as she hosts the podcast The Romance Show, a captivating podcast featuring authors and industry professionals in the romance genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prior to publishing, Vanessa worked as a registered nurse and midwife. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has lived in Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus and the USA. Born and raised in England, Vanessa now proudly calls herself an American and resides on the East Coast with her husband and their foxhound Sherlock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vanessa can be found on her Facebook Fan Page and in The Romance Lounge, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Goodreads. She enjoys connecting with fans all around the world.</span></div>
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