Virtual Tour - Hooked On Love By Jennie Marts
HOOKED ON LOVE
Cotton Creek #2
Jennie Marts
Releasing Oct 17th, 2016
Entangled Lovestruck
Chicago City Girl Tackles Colorado Mountains with Sexy,
Reclusive Guide.
Avery Oliver can see the byline now. What better way to
jumpstart her journalism career than to head out into the woods with a sexy
guide? It’s all very Bear Grylls, but she’ll take it, even if it means ditching
her beloved designer suits and handbags.
All Sullivan Reed needs in life is a fly rod and the roar
of a river. Playing guide to a hot little reporter can’t end well…until they
strike a deal that’s mutually beneficial. She’ll pretend to be his girlfriend
to deflect an overly flirtatious neighbor, and he’ll help her with the article.
It’s a win-win.
Until it isn’t. By the time a storm strands them in his
cabin, Sully’s done pretending. He wants Avery—badly—but she’s a big-city girl
looking for adventure, not his simple life. So why does releasing her feel like
he’s lost the perfect catch?
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Excerpt
The
distraction of her gorgeous legs almost did him in. Literally.
Sullivan
Reed hit the brakes just in time to avoid a collision in front of the general
store.
The curvy
blonde in the red jacket didn’t even notice, her focus intent, trying to wrench
her purse from the passenger seat of her car—a little foreign number with
rental tags.
She was wearing some kind of short
pants, not quite shorts but not really a skirt. Must be the new fashion—not
that he paid attention to fashion. According to his ex, he never noticed
anything.
But he noticed this woman—noticed
her long legs, her too-high heels, and what the hell was up with that purse? It
was practically the size of Wyoming. What could she possibly be carrying in
there? He could pack for a three day trip in a grocery sack.
Not that he cared. He didn’t have
time to be thinking about how high her heels were or the enormity of her
handbag when he had other things to worry about. Bigger fish to fry. So to
speak.
He needed to get in, grab his
supplies, and get back to the shop. He’d stayed up late last night tying some
new flies and wanted to get the new stock put up this afternoon so he could be
out on the creek by dusk.
Early summer in the Colorado
mountains was like paradise to a fly-fisherman. Plus he needed the time spent
fishing tonight to mentally prepare himself for the visitor who was supposed to
arrive tomorrow.
Besides, with that long blond hair
and tall curvy figure, the woman in the red jacket was totally out of his
league.
Not that he had a league, or even
wanted to be in a league. He wasn’t even particularly interested in the game
right now. He just wanted to be left alone.
Present company excluded. He reached
across the seat and patted the neck of his golden retriever, Sadie.
Sadie was the only female in his
life now, the only female he trusted, and that was fine with him. She hadn’t
left him, didn’t yell at him to make more money, never nagged him to pick up
his wet towels off the bathroom floor, and she hardly ever snored. All
attributes that he valued.
The dog whined, sitting upright in
the seat of his old truck, her gaze intent on the blond woman.
She stood on the sidewalk, oblivious
to him and the fact he’d almost run her down, her large round sunglasses
perched low on her nose as she looked over them to read the parking meter.
Sully watched her dig into her
cavernous bag for change. He was no lip reader, but he was fairly certain she
dropped a pretty clear F-bomb before pulling her hands out and throwing them up
in disgust, apparently giving up on the effort.
He stepped out of his truck, his
gaze captivated by the way her hips swayed and the swish of the breezy fabric
of her shorts against her legs as she hurried into Miller’s Mercantile. He
slammed the door and stepped up to the curb, stuffing his hands in the pockets
of his shorts and jingling his loose change.
After dropping a quarter into his
own meter, he paused in front of hers.
It would serve her right to get a
ticket. “Just because this town is small doesn’t mean you can just ignore the
law,” he grumbled, half to himself, half to the dog who watched him intently,
and then he dropped a quarter into her meter.
Pausing, he thought about the size
of her purse—she was probably pretty high maintenance and would be in there for
a while.
He dropped in a second quarter.
USA TODAY
Best-selling author Jennie Marts loves to make readers laugh as she weaves
stories filled with love, friendship, and intrigue. She writes for Entangled
Publishing, and reviewers call her books “laugh out loud funny” and full of
great characters that are “endearing and relatable.”
She is living
her own happily ever after in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, two
sons, two dogs, and a parakeet that loves to tweet to the oldies. She’s
addicted to Diet Coke, adores Cheetos, and believes you can’t have too many
books, shoes, or friends.
Her books
include the contemporary western romance Hearts of Montana series, the romantic
comedy/ cozy mysteries of The Page Turners series, the hunky hockey-playing men
in the Bannister Brothers Books, and the small-town romantic comedies in the
Lovestruck series of Cotton Creek Romances.
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