Year of Living Blonde (Sweet Life in Seattle, Book 1) (61 page)

Wedding cake baker Blair Thomas loves her life. Her business is thriving, her Seattle condo has a great view of the water, and her refurbished '65 convertible Mustang “Isadora” is the coolest car ever. She barely even thinks about that jerk she married five years ago. The one who abandoned her after only four months of marriage. The one who left a note on her pillow saying, “See you later, babe.”

Seriously, who does that?

So what if she was once obsessively in love with him. He's her best friend's older brother and for years he barely even knew she was alive. He never loved her, and he only married her because of a drunken mistake. At least she's over him.

Definitely over him.

The only problem is Blair never got around to divorcing him so technically they're still married. And after five years of traveling the world-Nathan “Road” Church-has finally decided to come home. He arrived on Blair's doorstep this morning, and now he's in her bathroom taking a shower. The nerve of him! Oh, and did I mention, he's still hot? Blair doesn't know what to do.

The jerk has returned.

“Steamy and fun, an irresistible story of one woman's obsession and the jerk-like object of her unrequited love...”

Warning:
Contains one sexy jerk, humorous situations, a heroine with obsessive compulsive disorder, cussing and swearing, steamy love scenes, and references to a part of the male anatomy that doesn't crow like a rooster-but certainly rises in the early morning.

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I am extremely lucky to have had so many people help me on my journey to getting Year of Living Blonde published. Thank you to my first reader and sister-friend, Erika Preston, who always has my back and was both kind and brutal (ha!) with her edits. Erika, as usual your advice was invaluable, especially with Chloe and the travails of Natalie as a divorced mom. (And sorry I didn't call the book “Year of Living Chloe”! Ha ha…) I'm also immensely thankful to Hot Tree Editing, especially Olivia Ventura and Becky Johnson, who did a fantastic job editing and were instrumental in turning Year of Living Blonde into such a silky smooth read. I'm so grateful to my amazing friend Susan Gideon who both beta read and proofread the final manuscript. Susan, you have an incredible eye for detail! I'm beyond thankful for all your help and the time you spent. Thank you also to Christine Borgford at Perfectly Publishable for the beautiful job with the interior formatting & design. It looks amazing and I couldn't be happier. Writing is a solitary endeavor, but I'm lucky to have the Plot Princesses, a group of very talented writers to keep me company and keep me on track. Thank you Amy Rench, Haley Burke, and Tami Raymen, for all your encouragement and for always making me laugh. I want to thank my wonderful husband, John, for his never ending support and for his thoughtful help with some of the technical aspects of this book. (The liquid nitrogen on the axe was his fantastic idea.) John, you're my favorite geek, my biggest fan, and I wouldn't be here doing this without you. Thank you also to my boys, the geeklings, for thinking it's pretty cool their mom is a writer, even though she writes books where people kiss. (I know, yuck.)

Andrea Simonne grew up as an army brat and discovered she had a talent for creating personas at each new school. The most memorable was a surfer chick named “Ace” who never touched a surf board in her life, but had an impressive collection of puka shell necklaces. Eventually she turned her imagination towards writing. Andrea still enjoys creating personas, though these days they occupy her books. She’s an Amazon bestseller in romantic comedy and the author of the series Sweet Life in Seattle. She currently makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two sons.

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