Ask Me, by Laura Strickland
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: A Candy Hearts Romance
Publication Date: February 3, 2016
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?
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 bio:
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.
Author Web site: www.laurastricklandbooks.com
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