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Seduced & Betrayed
The Hollywood Nights Series
Book Two
by
Candace Schuler
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PASSION & SCANDAL
The Hollywood Nights Series
Book Three
Excerpt from
Passion & Scandal
The Hollywood Nights Series
Book Three
by
Candace Schuler
Bestselling, award-winning Author
PASSION & SCANDAL
Awards & Accolades
RITA Finalist
Romance Writers of America
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~Rendezvous
Steve gave her a narrowed look. "Sooner or later," he warned her, "that mouth's gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble."
Willow pursed her shiny red lips at him in an exaggerated kissing motion. "Promises, promises," she taunted and turned to stroll toward the bar ahead of him, giving him a good look at the back of her snug black dress, which came to a V just below the curve of her waist.
"Good God Almighty, woman,"
Steve rasped
hoarsely, and she knew she'd hit her mark. "I'll get even with you for this," he growled.
Willow laughed and kept on walking. "You're certainly welcome to try," she taunted.
He caught up with her and turned her around to face him. "You want to yank on my chain a little more, fine. But this is between you and me, sweetheart. Let's keep it that way."
He bent down and pressed a hard, possessive kiss on her astonished mouth, then whirled her around again and, hands firmly on her shoulders, headed her toward the bar.
"You can let go of me any time now," she said as they threaded their way through the crowd.
"Are you going to behave yourself?"
"Define behave
,"
she retorted.
"Willow..." he said warningly and tightened his hands.
"All right, tough guy. I'll behave."
He let go of her.
"But only because I wouldn't want to be responsible for a bar brawl," she added.
He grinned at her. "God, you're a piece of work," he said admiringly.
Willow bent her head, refusing to let him see her smile, and dug into her evening bag. "Here," she said and handed him a tissue. "Wipe your mouth off. You've got lipstick all over it."
Passion & Scandal
The Hollywood Nights Series
Book Three
by
Candace Schuler
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Passion & Scandal
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Candace Schuler is a writer with a multiple personalities. In her 20+ year career, she has written software user guides, various types of instruction manuals, marketing collateral, grant proposals, case statements, case studies, business profiles, newsletters, press releases, white papers, speeches, scripts, short stories, a cookbook—and 26 (to date) romance novels.
Candace credits her husband Joe and her love of travel with starting her career as a romance writer. It was his comments on a letter describing a trip to New Orleans that prompted her to try writing romance fiction.
She wrote her first novel
Desire's Child
by hand on 12 yellow legal pads. It was published by Harlequin Books in September, 1984 (after she typed it into a computer, of course). Her second book
A Cherished Account
was published by New American Library under the pen name Jeanette Darwin just one month later. She is also published under the name Candace Spencer.
Her books have appeared on the B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and have twice been nominated by the Romance Writers of America for a RITA award in the Best Short Contemporary Romance category—in 1996 for
Passion and Scandal
and in 2003 for
Good Time Girl
.
Good Time Girl
also received the 2003 Scarlett Letter Award, presented by the Tampa Bay Romance Writers for excellence in sensual romance writing. Candace's books have also received three Reviewers' Choice Awards from Romantic Times magazine. In 1992, she was awarded the Career Achievement Award as Series Story Teller of the Year by RT.