Worth The Effort (The Worth Series Book 4: A Copper Country Romance) (32 page)
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Authors: Mara Jacobs
“I can do that,” she said, her voice raw and those damn tears starting to fall again.
He swiped at them with his thumbs, then kissed her eyelids. “Oh, baby, don’t cry. It’s going to be okay. We’ll figure it out as we go along.”
She was nodding, unable to speak.
“But I have to tell you,” he added, stepping back. He dropped his hands and instead took her in his arms and pulled her close. “I’m a pretty old dog. It might take you a while to teach me some new tricks.”
“How long?” she asked, nuzzling into him. The smell of outdoors wafted over her, making her hug him all the tighter.
“Oh, I’m thinking forever.” He kissed her, then looked at her with a smile. “Yeah. Definitely forever.”
~*~
Author’s Note
Okay, I took MAJOR creative license with the whole indoor driving project. I did some research, and it would pose some problems in an area with as much snowfall as the Copper Country. I can’t say that wind power would be feasible, but I’d like to think that whatever the solution would be, my engineering masterminds—the crew as Summers and Beck—would figure it out.
To all my Michigan Tech engineering friends who are surely rolling their eyes, I say this…it was all in the name of romance!
The Worth Series will continue with Twain Beck’s story in
Worth The Price
Coming in early 2014
While you’re waiting for the next Worth book, try
Good Cop
The Heroes of Henderson ~ Book 1
By Liz Kelly
Liz writes contemporary romance set in a small town. Good Cop is funny, light and sexy. Read on for an excerpt.
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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The Worth Series:
Worth The Effort
Anna Dawson’s Vegas Romantic Mystery Series:
Blackbird & Confessor Romantic Mystery Series:
Anthology:
Countdown To A Kiss
After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in advertising, Mara spent several years working at daily newspapers in advertising sales and production. This certainly prepared her for the world of deadlines!
Most authors say they’ve been writing forever. Not so with Mara. She always had the stories, but they played like movies in her head. A few years ago she began transferring the movies to pages. She writes mysteries with romance, thrillers with romance, and romances with…well, you get it.
Forever a Yooper (someone who hails from Michigan's glorious Upper Peninsula), Mara now resides in the East Lansing, Michigan, area where she is better able to root on her beloved Spartans.
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Excerpt From Liz Kelly’s Good Cop