BLURB:
One night together will
change his life forever…
Camilla Winthrop is about to do something she’s never done in
her life—she’s about to ask a man to marry her. Not just any man. She hasn’t
seen Sam Flanagan in almost five years, after he coldly walked away from a
passionate and intense two-week affair. Now Camilla is widowed and
desperate…and marrying Sam is the only way she can protect their son.
The son he never knew about.
A hugely successful attorney in Miami, Sam certainly never
expected to see the stunning Camilla come through his door again. Nor can he
ignore the desire heating his blood. But after she tells him her situation, Sam
is furious. He’ll marry her, but under his terms. And he’ll take everything,
including Camilla in his bed…unless she can find a way to thaw the
millionaire’s icy heart once more.
JANE PEDEN
The stupidest pick-up attempt I ever heard was when I was in my
early 20’s working for a nonprofit disaster relief agency on an out-of-town job
in Pittsburgh raising funds to help flood victims. After work a group of us from various cities
made plans to go out to dinner together.
Everyone agreed to go back to our rooms and change out of business
clothes and meet up in the hotel lobby in half an hour.
There was a particularly annoying guy named Bob from the
Cincinnati office who had been bossing me around all day because he had been on
many of these fundraising assignments before, and this was my first. (Rule #1: If you are thinking about trying to
pick someone up later, it’s not a good idea to be condescending to them earlier
in the day.)
So, he knew what room I was in and as I was
getting ready to go down to the lobby he knocks at my door. When I open it Bob says, I thought we could walk down to the lobby together. Ok, that’s a little lame, but fine.
Then he stares down at his hand as if he’s
just discovered he is holding his briefcase, and pastes this surprised,
sheepish look on his face. Oh, wow, says Bob, whose own room is
about five doors down the hall, I don’t
want to drag this thing along to dinner.
Can I just leave it here in your room and pick it up after? (Rule
#2: If you think leaving your briefcase in a woman’s hotel room is your only
chance you’ll be invited in, you’re
probably right.)
Needless to say, Bob never had a chance with
me (See Rule #1), and I told him I’d be happy to wait right there in the
hallway while he took his briefcase back to his own room. I’ll admit, though, that I flirted with him a
bit later in cab on the way back from dinner, just so I could shut him down
when we got to the hotel. He deserved
it.
Bob could take a few lessons from Sam, the
hero in my contemporary romance, THE MILLIONAIRE’S UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL. When millionaire Miami lawyer Sam finds
himself alone in Las Vegas - and spots
an elegant blonde also alone in the hotel lounge – he knows he’d much rather
the two of them spend the evening together.
But Camilla is as unapproachable as she is beautiful.
Will Sam have better luck with Camilla than
lame-o Bob had with me? Well, he
couldn’t do any worse . . .
BIO:
Jane Peden is the pen name of a Florida trial attorney who
writes sexy contemporary category romances set in the exciting South Florida
city of Miami, where millionaire lawyers live extravagant lifestyles and find
love when they least expect it. When Jane is not in court, you can find her at
the beach with her laptop, dreaming up stories about successful, confident men who
know what they want and how to get it, and smart, sexy women who demand love on
their own terms. Her books promise sizzling chemistry in the face of
insurmountable obstacles. And just when things could not get any worse, an
emotional payoff that makes it all worthwhile. Jane grew up in the mountains of
western Pennsylvania, but decided early on that the only thing better than
escaping the cold for a two-week vacation at the beach was to live there all
year around, so she traded her snow boots for a jet ski and has never looked
back. Jane lives on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida with her husband, two kids,
two dogs, and a fish.
Her debut book,THE MILLIONAIRE’S
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