With: Cathy Skendrovich
Congratulations to "Colleen C., the winner in Cathy's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!
Happy Mother’s Day, everybody! I hope you’re enjoying your
day and are doing what you love doing: reading! My latest release, Undercover with the Nanny, is a spicy
novel full of humor, suspense, and of course, romance. I made myself blush when
I was writing it, because Kate Munroe and Sawyer Hayes ooze sex appeal. I hope
you’ll participate in my Giveaway. I
also hope the excerpt makes you want to read more. Enjoy!
GIVEAWAY ALERT:
One lucky person will receive an ARC of Undercover with the Nanny for leaving a comment.
UNDERCOVER WITH THE NANNY
DEA agent
Sawyer Hayes came to California in search of a drug cartel leader who slipped
through his fingers in El Paso. The link to finding him is Kate Munroe, a nanny
for one of his henchmen. The problem? He didn’t expect to be so drawn to a
possible suspect. How is he supposed to do his job when his growing feelings
for her are clouding his judgment?
Interior designer Kate
Munroe’s life is a train wreck. Her parents’ deaths left her with their mounds
of debt, she can’t get a job designing even a cubicle, and she’s bunking in her
best friend’s spare bedroom. To make ends meet, she’s a nanny to a lonely
little boy whose rich father works all the time. Romance is not on her radar. But her hot new neighbor
could change her mind, with his broad shoulders and Southern charm. Too bad his
secrets could destroy her.
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EXCERPT:
Was he stalking her? Kate stepped back from the truck window and studied
Sawyer Hayes. He didn’t look like a bad guy. She’d already established that he
was gorgeous, and up close, her first impression was confirmed. Tiny white
lines radiated from the corners of his eyes as he smiled, testifying that he
spent a lot of time outdoors. As did his sun-kissed, tawny hair.
Kate pursed her lips, reminding herself that Ted Bundy had been a
good-looking man too.
“Are you stalking me?” she blurted, fingering the alarm button on her key
fob.
He burst out with that deep laugh she’d admired on the beach, and then he
sobered.
“Not at all. I live. Right. Next. Door.” He pointed at the apartment beside
hers while he enunciated each word, and Kate barely concealed her growl of
exasperation. He was way too attractive to have to run into him on a daily
basis. He could seriously derail her resolution to steer clear of
relationships, even casual ones, until her head was above water. But at least
this was the explanation for his continual presence today. He wasn’t a serial
killer.
Probably.
“Now that we’re neighbors, will you
cut the suspense and tell me who you are?”
Kate glanced at her wristwatch. If she didn’t leave within the next five
minutes, she’d be late. Mr. Cabrera valued punctuality, and she didn’t want to
ruin her record.
“I need to go. Please move.”
“What if I get your mail by mistake? What if you win Publishers
Clearinghouse and the notification comes in the mail, and because I don’t know
your name, I put the envelope on top of the mailbox and someone else picks it
up and gets all that money? That’s right. I can see your mind going over that
very real possibility.”
His expression was so puppy dog earnest Kate couldn’t help it. The giggle
percolated from deep inside her chest and erupted at the end of his outrageous
statement. Good grief, his sense of humor was as appealing as his looks. And,
here she was, once again enjoying the light-hearted banter her life had been
without for so long.
She shook her head in frustrated capitulation. “Fine, you win. My name is
Kate Munroe, I live next door, and this is my car. I need to leave right now or
I’ll be late for my job, and if I’m late I’ll be fired, and then I won’t be
able to live here. Do you want to be the reason I become homeless?”
His smile widened while his gaze caressed her face, warming as it tracked
across her features. Her grin faded. She took another step away from his truck.
She needed
distance
from his potent sex appeal.
“That wasn’t so hard, was it? Glad to finally meet you, Kate Munroe. I look
forward to getting to know you.”
“Hmph,” she replied, staring at his huge, dirty truck pointedly. He
continued to smile into her face, until she shrugged. “Well? I can’t be late.
I’ve met you. You’ve met me. I need to leave. Now.”
“Oh, yeah. Right. Sorry. I could get lost in your eyes. I can’t tell what
color they are in this light. Guess I’ll just have to run into you again real
soon.”
He reached for his gear shift, and Kate roused from the hypnotic state his
words had put her in. Get lost in her eyes? What guy said that nowadays? In any
day, for that matter, except in historical romance novels.
He put the truck in reverse and glanced at her again. She swallowed hard
and straightened her shoulders. She would not turn into a puddle because he’d
used a sexy turn of phrase. She was made of stronger stuff than that.
As he began to back up, he gave her a salute with his left hand. “Drive
safely, Kate Munroe. I don’t want this first meeting to be our last. Good
night.”
She stared stupidly after him as he reversed out of her way and then sat,
waiting. She realized he still wanted to park in front of his place. As she
pulled away, she couldn’t resist looking in her rearview mirror.
She cursed herself for the weakness. There was no room for a man in her
life. She needed to work every minute of her day, either as a nanny or as a
freelance designer, if she was ever going to get her previous life back.
Cathy
Skendrovich has always loved a good story, and spent her formative years
scribbling what is now called Fan Fiction. The current heartthrob of the time
featured heavily in all her stories. Unfortunately, once she went to college,
her writing took the form of term papers, written on typewriters instead of
computer keyboards.
Upon graduation, Cathy took a job as an English teacher in a middle school.
Along the way, she married her husband of now thirty-three years, had two sons,
and moved to southern Orange County, California. She chose to work part-time in
the school system there.
Now she has returned to writing. Prisoner of Love is her first published novel,
followed closely by The Pirate's Bride. The sequel to The Pirate's Bride, The
Pirate Bride’s Holiday Masquerade, came out Oct. 1, 2017. Undercover with the
Nanny, came out on April 23, 2018.
She likes writing romance because she feels it's lacking in today's
technological world. While she enjoys writing contemporary stories, creating
romance in bygone times fascinates her. She hopes her ability to write in both
genres will be the beginning of a long and satisfying writing career.
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Oh this definitely sounds like a book I would enjoy! Thanks for sharing & Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!
ReplyDeleteI definitely want to read this book!
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