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and Beer
Title: Love, Chocolate and Beer
Author: Violet Duke
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18807815-love-chocolate-and-beer?from_search=true
Synopsis
Romance has met its most unlikely match-up…
Luke Bradford is a chocolatier on a
mission. After moving his chocolate shop, and newly single life, to the quirky
town of Cactus Creek, Luke wants nothing more than to devote all his energy
into making his business a success—by taking the romance market by storm. But
his grand plans get thrown for a loop when he locks horns with the feisty
beer-brewing beauty next door who calls his ‘romantic idealism’ a load of
fairytale bull. Soon, driving the woman sparking nuts becomes another wickedly
fun priority he simply can’t get enough of.
In his defense, she’s addictively
easy to incite…and plain impossible to resist.
Beloved local brewmaster Dani
Dobson is beyond riled up. It’s bad enough the new shop owner in town comes
locked and loaded with both a distractingly rugged charm and sexy flashing
dimples, but the whole only-in-the-movies variety of romance he’s selling—the
kind her world has been crushed by before—is really doing a number on her
allergy to unrealistic clichĂ©s. What’s worse, he’s created an annoyingly clever
ad campaign that dubs ‘beer joints’ like hers as the “cave where romance goes
to hibernate.” The nerve of that man.
Combustible chemistry or not, damn
it, this means war. The stakes…very likely, her heart.
Excerpt
“HEY, DANI. Why isn’t the coffee
started? Breakfast is getting—OH!” Xoey dropped the box of bakery fresh
doughnuts in shock at the foot of Dani’s bed.
Dani estimated the level of Xoey’s
shock was pretty high up there. Not just because she was still in bed this late
in the morning, but more so because she wasn’t in said bed alone.
“Get out!” Dani launched a pillow
at her.
Xoey shot out of the bedroom. “I’m
so sorry!” she shouted as she closed the door behind her. “I figured it was
safe! I thought you two were waiting till your fifth date to...hey, wait a sec,
did I count wrong?”
“Just stop talking and go wait
outside! Or better yet, wait down in the brewpub!” Dani jumped out of bed, and
instantly dropped flat as a pancake onto the carpet.
Good lord, she was naked.
And, criminy, she totally just gave
herself a carpet burn on her belly.
Where the heck did her towel from
last night go?
At the soft whoosh of falling terry
cloth landing inches from her face, she muttered, “Thanks.”
“No problem,” came Luke’s amused
reply.
Dani tucked the now dry bath towel
around herself securely before peeking just her eyes and the bridge of her nose
up from behind the tangle of goose down comforter lined-up like a trench
barricade on her edge of the bed.
“Good morning, beautiful.”
She popped her head up fully like a
prairie dog, and asked the first burning question that swirled around in her
head. “Did we—Ë®
The heated look he blasted her
stopped her from finishing that sentence.
“Honey, if we had, the trench
barricade my soldier is failing to hide behind wouldn’t be taller than yours
right now.”
Oh my. A quick glance toward the
center of her bed had her rising to her feet quicker than the sound of the
national anthem had ever inspired. Furthermore, she wasn’t the one saluting the
flag in this case.
Before she could do so much as
gape, however, he dragged the comforter over himself, and pulled her back up
onto the bed beside him in one easy swoop.
With a sleepy morning growl, he
gathered her into his arms and laid warm, rumbly kisses down the side of her
neck. “Believe me Dani, the next time you wake up next to me in bed, you won’t
be wondering if we did, you’ll damn well know it, remember it, and want more of
it.”
All evidence in front of her would
certainly suggest so.
He nipped at her earlobe. “I can practically
see your thoughts, sweetheart. Before you slaughter my control even more than
you already have, put some clothes back on me in that pretty little head of
yours and go take care of Xoey. I’m going to see how cold I can get your shower
to run.”
As she rushed out of the room to go
demand her spare key back from Xoey, it registered belatedly that Luke had
spent the entire night lying next to her, fully clothed and on top of her bed
spread, just holding her hand.
A total gentleman.
With whom she fully intended to
renegotiate the intolerable terms of their pesky five-date waiting period.
Seriously, whose crazy-ass idea had that been anyhow?
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About the Author
New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
Violet Duke is a former professor of English Education who is ecstatic to now
be on the other side of the page writing wickedly fun contemporary romance
novels. When she's not arguing with her story characters or feeding her
book-a-day reading addiction, Violet enjoys tackling reno projects with her power
tools, trying pretty much anything without reading the directions first, and
cooking 'special edition' dishes that laugh in the face of recipes. She lives
in Hawai'i with her two cute kids and similarly adorable husband.
Website: http://www.violetduke.com/
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Author of BREAKABLE (May 2014) - companion novel to the NYT Bestseller EASY (May 2012), and the Between the Lines series: BETWEEN THE LINES (May 2011), WHERE YOU ARE (Oct 2011), GOOD FOR YOU (Dec 2011) and HERE WITHOUT YOU (Aug 2013).
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