With: Avery Flynn
Thank you so much for having me over to
share this fun excerpt form my hot romantic comedy, The Negotiator! Just to set
this up a bit, Clover is posing as Sawyer’s finance so that his marriage-minded
(and meddling) mom will stop throwing wife candidates in his path. Clover had a
few requirements before signing the contract. One was that they’d have to watch
DIY shows and hit the flea markets.
xoxo,
Avery
"You're totally in violation of the
contract,” Clover said. “But I'll let it slide since it's our first Friday
night."
Sawyer was so lost. He'd blame the lack
of blood in his brain, but it seemed to be his reality whenever he was around
Clover. "What violation?"
"To binge watch HGTV on Friday
nights in preparation for hitting the flea market on Saturday morning."
She gave a little cheer and turned her attention back to the TV, which was now
showing a commercial for birth control. "We're totally going to find
something fabulous to pop your cherry."
The mental movie that started rolling at
the phrase "pop your cherry" had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do
with a flea market unless she had a kink for public sex.
"I didn't think you were
serious." There were a hundred—a billion—things he'd rather do with
her—and to her—than go to some dirty flea market.
She shrugged. "Too bad, so sad,
buddy, because you signed on the dotted line."
"You'll never get a judge to uphold
anything scrawled on a napkin."
"Sure you want to gamble on
that?" she asked. "Anyway, I already came up with our backstory. I
know how you hate dealing with the details. Your mom was a little shocked when
I told her how we met, but she took it better than I'd expected."
There wasn't a single part of those two
sentences that didn't make his chest burn. "You talked to my mom? What did
you tell her?"
"That we met when you modeled for a
wine and paint class I took." She looked up at him, all sweetness and
innocence except for the hard glint of trouble in her eyes. "I told her
that I was a goner the moment you slipped off your tighty whiteys and were able
to hold your pose for so long, even though I could see it was very hard."
Good thing his family had funded Harbor
City General's new cardiac wing because he and his mom were both going to need
it. "You did not say that to my mom."
The Negotiator
Wanted:
Personal Buffer
Often
snarly, workaholic executive seeks “buffer” from annoying outside distractions
AKA people. Free spirits with personal boundary issues, excessive quirks, or
general squeamishness need not apply. Salary negotiable. Confidentiality
required.
Workaholic
billionaire Sawyer Carlyle may have joked he needed a “buffer” from their
marriage-obsessed mom, but he didn’t need a waiting room filled with
“candidates” to further distract him. (Thanks, bro.) But when a sexy job
applicant shooes his mom and the socialite in tow out of his office, Sawyer
sees the genius of the plan. And the woman. In fact, Miss Clover Lee might just
get the fastest promotion in history, from buffer to fake fiancé…
This
“free-spirit” might look like hot sunshine and lickable rainbows, but she
negotiates like a pitbull. Before Sawyer knows what hit him, he’s agreed to
give up Friday nights for reality tv, his Saturdays for flea markets (why buy
junk still baffles him), his Tuesdays and Thursdays for “date nights” (aka
panty-losing opportunities if he plays his cards right). And now she wants
lavender bath salts and tulips delivered every Monday?
Yup,
she’s just screwing with him. Good thing she’s got this non-negotiatable
six-weeks-and-she’s-gone rule or Sawyer may have just met this match…
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About the author:
Avery
Flynn is an award winning romance author. She has three slightly-wild children,
loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the
coffee IV drip.
She
was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to
write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they are with
their *ahem* other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and
fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two
feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.
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bahaha Hi Avery!! That's a great excerpt! I'm very much looking forward to reading this!! Always love when the heroine can keep the hero on his toes :)
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