BLURB:
Alone on Valentine’s Day, Leo Rankin
attends the library’s Blind Date With a Book event hoping for something he can
take to bed with him that night, and finds himself competing against Gerri Webb
for the last remaining book. Wild child Gerri is not his usual type. Yet he
feels an immediate, sizzling attraction and agrees to share the book and its
accompanying bag of candy hearts.
The whole idea of a Blind Date With a Book is to go off genre, so Gerri doesn’t mind when their flirty conversation suggests they unwrap each other rather than the mystery book. When a candy heart advises, “Ask Me,” she asks Leo back to her apartment. She never expects button-down Leo to hit all her buttons, but by the next morning she fears her heart’s in danger. Can one night spent off genre translate to real life?
The whole idea of a Blind Date With a Book is to go off genre, so Gerri doesn’t mind when their flirty conversation suggests they unwrap each other rather than the mystery book. When a candy heart advises, “Ask Me,” she asks Leo back to her apartment. She never expects button-down Leo to hit all her buttons, but by the next morning she fears her heart’s in danger. Can one night spent off genre translate to real life?
EXCERPT:
“Be a gentleman,” the black-haired woman told Leo, “and let
me have the book.” She already had her library card out, clutched in her other
hand.
“Why don’t you share it?” the clerk suggested impishly. “See
what happens.”
The black-haired woman laughed a bit nervously. Before Leo
could speak, the clerk snatched the library card from her hand and wanded the
book. “There you go. Oh, and every book comes with a little bag of candy
hearts. Have a happy Valentine’s Day.”
Leo frowned and snatched the small, red bag the clerk pushed
across the counter at him. Elsewhere in the building, lights dimmed. They had
little choice but to leave.
Yet the woman still clutched her side of the book.
“Who gets to take it home?” she asked.
Leo smiled suddenly. “Pretty ridiculous to be negotiating
over an unknown book for company tonight, isn’t it?”
“Pitiful,” she agreed.
Leo hesitated, impulse nibbling at him once again. He could
suggest they get a coffee or a drink together. Sure, she was a far cry from the
kind of woman he usually dated, almost diametrically opposed. But it beat being
alone, right?
She gave him a provocative look. “Maybe the candy hearts
hold the answer to who gets the book first.” She dug into the small, red bag in
his hand to draw forth a single heart, and Leo saw her fingernails were painted
black. She opened her palm with the heart on it, words facing upward.
Ask Me, Leo read.
Well, then. He drew a breath. “Want to go somewhere for
coffee?”
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Author
Web site: www.laurastricklandbooks.com
Born and raised in Western New York, Laura Strickland has
pursued lifelong interests in lore, legend, magic and music, all reflected in
her writing. Though her imagination frequently takes her to far off places, she
is usually happiest at home not far from Lake Ontario with her husband and her "fur"
child, a rescue dog. Author of Scottish romances Devil Black and His Wicked
Highland Ways as well as The Guardians of Sherwood Trilogy consisting of
Daughter of Sherwood, Champion of Sherwood and Lord of Sherwood, she has also
published two Steampunk romances, Dead Handsome: a Buffalo Steampunk Adventure
and Off Kilter: a Buffalo Steampunk Adventure as well as two Christmas
novellas: The Tenth Suitor and Mrs. Claus and the Viking Ship. Her Lobster Cove
Historical Romance, The White Gull, is the prequel to her new release, Forged
By Love, a Lobster Cove novella. Ask Me is her first Romantic Comedy.
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