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A Fine Mess by [book-author]
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Published by [book-publisher] on 8/2/2016
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Some guys should come with a warning label…
Sawyer West is Mr. One-Night Stand. He doesn't do relationships or promises or feelings. He's never cared enough to get involved. Until Lily Roberts. She's sweet and shy and sexy as sin, and resisting her is testing his self-control. She believes Sawyer can be a better man, and for the first time in his life, he wants to be. But change isn't easy, and Sawyer would do anything to protect Lily from his past self. Even break his own heart…
Top 5 Epic Kisses
It’s tough to narrow down the best of the best on-screen lip locks, but I’ll try my hardest…which includes re-watching some of my all-time faves. Sucks to be me.
At five is Spider-man’s upside-down kiss. If you take superhero lips, the lure of a man in a mask, and a wet heroine (it was raining, people), you get serious chemistry. Add in some Cirque du Soleil moves, and that smooch becomes unforgettable.
Spot four belongs to Sam and Jake of Sixteen Candles. I lived and breathed John Hughes films as a teen, and Sam and Jake were one of my favorite couples. My belly tumbled when he showed up at her sister’s wedding. My heart went splat watching them flirt over her birthday cake. Then that kiss. Ovaries everywhere erupted.
The Princess Bride is a favorite movie of mine for a million reasons, one of which is Westley and Buttercup’s final kiss. His sexy ponytail. Wind blowing her gorgeous, blond locks. Her glittery crown. (I may have worn one for a month afterward.) It was the fairy-tale kiss to end all fairy-tale kisses.
Sliding into slot number two is The Notebook. A predictable nod to a scene that has caused scores of women to pant, then boyfriends to roll their eyes, wondering why they have to watch this painful movie again. But seriously. Ryan Gosling plus scruff plus a wet Rachel McAdams (it was raining) equals hot flashes and swooning for miles.
Lastly, but certainly not least, I give you Dirty Dancing. The forever sexy Patrick Swayze on his knees, and Jennifer Grey in her cute little cutoffs, and the two of them doing their cute little rehearsing to awesomely cute fifties music, and I’m just all flustered writing about it. Isn’t there something perfectly sexy about a strong man who can dance? Le double sigh.
Excerpt
She holds up her new treasure. “Found a good one.” The blue stone in the center of the ring catches the light of a nearby lamp, the thick band decorated with filigree.
“Okay,” I say. “You first.”
She swallows and peeks at me from below her lashes. “There was this man.” Another swallow. “He was a soldier about to be shipped off to war.” She scrapes her teeth over her bottom lip. “He bought this ring but didn’t propose to his girl before he left. He was afraid. He didn’t think he’d do right by her. But he held on to it during every battle, and every horrible night. When he got home and realized he was being foolish”—she looks at me with glassy eyes—“the girl had fallen for someone else.”
Single Lily fights dirty.
My pulse kicks up a notch as I approach her. I stop a foot away and hold out my hand. “The ring, please.”
Trembling slightly, she places it in my palm, her fingers grazing my skin.
“A man,” I say, turning the band over, “proposed to the girl of his dreams with this ring.” I step closer. “He worshipped her. I mean, she was hot as fuck”—eye roll numero cinco—“but they were meant to be, like real soul mates. Then the unthinkable happened.” I shift my feet until there’s barely an inch between us.
Self-control at DEFCON 2.
“What happened?” she whispers.
I grin. “A car fell on her. Freak accident. Dropped from the second story of a parking garage. Nasty mess.” I grab her hand and place the ring on her finger as she mumbles something about my maturity. I knock her toe with mine. “Quiet. I’m not done.” Numero seis. I clear my throat. “Although the man loved his wife more than anything, he pawned the ring. He knew it was special. He hoped the next person to buy it could be as lucky in love as he was.”
That stops the eye rolls.
She looks at the ring, then at me, then back and forth again.
Her lips part. Her chest rises.
Sirens ring: DEFCON 1.
I’m a thrill seeker. Cliff jumping, fast cars, steep slopes—you name it, I love it. The adrenaline rush gives me Spidey-sense, and my pulse shoots from one hundred to 220 in ten seconds flat.
Leaning in to kiss Lily is like skydiving without a chute.
I don’t give her time to turn me down, not a moment for either of us to overthink. Heart in my throat, I taste her lips. Yep, strawberry. She’s soft and tentative, then eager, a whimper escaping when our tongues swipe. I grip her harder and walk until I have her pressed against a table. She tugs my hair. I grab her ass. The next whimper is louder, the sound shredding what’s left of my self-control. I need to hear what other sounds she makes, need to hear her fall apart. Will she chant my name or pray to her maker? Will she scream or groan? Our mouths move faster, hands greedier, my jeans barely containing me. If I don’t stop soon, we’ll be giving these antiques enough stories for another century.
By the time I pull away, she’s swallowed my heart.
THE OVER THE TOP SERIES
My Perfect Mistake, #1
A Fine Mess, #2
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About Kelly Siskind
A small-town girl at heart, Kelly moved from the city to open a cheese shop with her husband in Northern Ontario. When she’s not neck deep in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand, scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her head.
She laughs at her own jokes and has been known to eat her feelings-Gummy Bears heal all. She’s also an incurable romantic, devouring romance novels into the wee hours of the morning.
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