Blurb:
What
happens when best friends fall for the same girl?
A
Bromance, A Romance & A Love Triangle
Local
sports heroes Brooks Bennett and Vance Evans are used to being part of a
winning team. But when it comes to romance their good cop, bad cop images
have them handcuffed. They want a woman’s point of view to help
unshackle their reputations, and they’ve picked out one pretty, pony-tailed
firecracker to do it.
Lolly
DuVal longs for a summer fling that can set off all her bells and whistles. So
she agrees to tutor Henderson’s hunkiest heroes on what women really want. Now
she finds herself caught between two cops and a hard place. And those bells and
whistles? They are starting to sound a whole lot more like alarms.
Excerpt:
“Let’s face it, bro," Vance
said. "You and I have covered a lot of female territory over the years
without much to show for it. And unfortunately I think our reputations have
been cemented. We have become the epitome of good cop, bad cop.”
“Me being the good cop,” Brooks
stated.
“Yeah. So somehow I need to become
more like you.”
“Whatever. It’s gonna be a cold day
in hell when I start treating women the way you do.”
“Fine. Not crazy about the good cop,
bad cop analogy? Substitute safe versus sexy.”
“Really? Sexy?”
“Well,” Vance said, lifting an
eyebrow, “I’m certainly not milquetoast.”
Brooks planted his ass on the
training table Lolly had vacated, shaking himself all over. “Brrr! Just saying the word ‘sexy’
makes me feel ridiculous.”
“Yeah, and like I wanna be this
town’s Golden Boy.” Vance broke into his best Brooks Bennett imitation. “Hey,
Mrs. Devine! How’s your golf game? Really? Well, you hang in there,” Vance
mimicked.
“That is not how I sound.”
“That is exactly how you sound to
me.”
“Well, you can’t be me and I refuse
to be you.”
“Yes, but we can gain a better
understanding of where we’re lacking and improve in those areas. I need to
figure out how to lighten up and get women to wave at me when I walk through
town like they do to you.”
“And I need to learn how to make
their eyes go dark and misty like Lolly’s did when she told you that you had
very, very good hands. What the hell was going on in here, you goddamn son of a
bitch?”
“Brooks, buddy. That crap is so
easy.”
“Not for me.”
“Which is why, if you go along with
my plan, I will reveal to you the secret of my success. Which I learned at the
age of fifteen, by the way. It’s certainly not rocket science.”
“What plan?”
“We help Lolly with her research and
she helps us with ours.”
“I don’t follow.”
“She’s the tutor.”
“No. She’s my date.”
“Tonight she’s your date. Tomorrow
she’s our tutor.”
“Our tutor, how?”
“Man, I don’t know. But what I do
know is that she was willing to talk about what she didn’t want. So maybe she’d
be willing to talk about what she does want. It certainly can’t hurt to ask.
Who else are we gonna get?”
Brooks shrugged. “I don’t know. And
I see your point, I really do. But I’m hoping this date isn’t going to be a one
and done.”
“Well then….” Vance spread his arms
wide. “What could be better than learning about what women want from the woman
you actually want?”
“Huh?”
“Trust me. There’s no downside here.
Let’s just talk to her tonight and see if she’d be willing to help us.”
“I don’t know.”
“All right. How ’bout this? I give
you one piece of bad cop advice to use on your date tonight. If it works out
well for you, and it will, you go along with me on this.”
Brooks looked skeptical. “What’s the
advice?”
“Do we have a deal? Because this is
good stuff and frankly, right now, in this town, you are my stiffest
competition. I don’t want to be giving you pointers and getting nothing in
return.”
“Jesus, will you just tell me
already?”
“Okay.” Vance took a breath before
speaking in a conspiratorial tone. “Tonight, when you take the Lollypop home,
the moment you hit that top step of her momma’s porch you shove that lean body
of hers right up against the wall and kiss her like you mean it.”
Vance let that sink in before he
added, “You can thank me in the morning.”
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Author
Bio:
Growing up every summer in a
place where
dancing and romancing
are literally part of its theme song, Liz Kelly can't help but be a romantic at
heart. And since her favorite author, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss wrote some of the
world's greatest romances, she's just trying to give the world a little more of
that. (Okay, maybe a little sexier that, but we are now in a new
millennium after all.)
A graduate of Wake Forest
University, where she met her handsome golf-addicted husband, (who is now
sporting dark glasses everywhere he goes) Liz is a mother of two grown sons
(also sporting dark glasses) and a miniature Labradoodle named Isabelle. They
live in the Fountain
of Youth, a.k.a.
Naples, FL where dancing and romancing continues on ad infinitum.
