Lacey has dreamed of opening a restaurant for years - but first, she needs a loan. When Garrett Halifax, her roommate's Harvard-educated brother, offers to help her clean up her appearance and manner to impress the bank manager, she jumps at the chance. She makes mistake after mistake, and perhaps the biggest mistake is falling for sexy Garret.
This modern retelling of My Fair Lady offers all the humor of the original movie with a splash of romance thrown in.
Jojo Halifax, Lacey's roommate, believes that winning Echo Ridge's float competition is just what her fledgling art career needs. And if that means giving her ex-boyfriend, Anthony, a second chance so she can be a designer on his team, well, she's willing to make the sacrifice. But when a lost bet leads to a blind date with her brother's friend, Wyatt, she begins to have second thoughts about second chances. Wyatt is handsome and charming and just might have been paid to make her forget about Anthony. Is falling for his charm worth the risk or should she take Anthony back again?
Romantic comedy lovers will eat these two novellas up!
Janette Rallison is old. Don’t ask how old, because it isn’t polite. Let’s just say she’s older than she’d like to be and leave it at that.
Janette lives in Chandler, Arizona with her husband, five children and enough cats to classify her as “an eccentric cat lady.” She did not do this on purpose. (The cats, that is; she had the children on purpose.) Every single one of the felines showed up on its own and refuses to leave. Not even the family’s fearless little Westie dog can drive them off.
Since Janette has five children and deadlines to write books, she doesn’t have much time left over for hobbies. But since this is the internet and you can’t actually check up to see if anything on this site is true, let’s just say she enjoys dancing, scuba diving, horse back riding and long talks with Orlando Bloom. (Well, I never said he answers back.)
Excerpt #3 - From A Perfect Fit
They were nearing their floor. “Anyway,
whatever price Garrett paid for your services, it was worth it.”
He smiled. “Glad to know you’re satisfied.”
His answer shouldn’t have bothered her, but
it did. She’d made the comment tongue-in-cheek and had expected him to deny
that Garrett was paying him anything. Instead, he’d confirmed it. What was
Garrett paying him with? A favor called in? Cash? She hoped it wasn’t that. How
much did make-my-sister-forget-her-boyfriend dates run? Hundreds? The more
Garrett paid, the more pathetic it meant she was.
The elevator slowed to a stop and the door
opened. Wyatt stepped into the hallway and paused, checking the numbers on the
wall to see which way to go. Jojo followed him, rolling her overnight bag
behind her.
“This way,” he said, heading to the left. His
room was 2312; hers was 2310.
She kept pace beside him. “So you’re saying
that Garrett actually paid you to take me out?”
“I didn’t say that. I just said I was glad
you were satisfied.”
“Then he didn’t pay you?”
“I didn’t say that either.”
“Well, which is it?”
He gestured to the rooms on his right,
completely unperturbed by her questioning. “Here are our rooms.”
“You’re not going to answer me?”
He paused in the hallway, seemed surprised by
her insistence. “What are you really asking? Do you want me to tell you that
you’re pretty enough and interesting enough to get a date without your
brother’s help? You absolutely are. But I suspect you already know that. Girls
who are as pretty as you are quite aware of it.”
The compliment washed over her, made her
tingle. She was pretty and interesting. “Ah, thanks. You’re so sweet.” And then
the next moment her doubts returned. “Wait, is my brother paying you to say
things like that to me?”
Wyatt laughed, then unlocked his door. “I’ll
be ready to go in five minutes. See you then.” He winked and disappeared
inside, shutting the door.
That wink. Jojo would look stupid if she
tried it, but Wyatt made the gesture flirtatious and intimate, like she’d
gained entrance to his inner circle. A place she suddenly wanted to be.
As she walked into her room, she made a new
goal for the evening. She would not do impulsive, foolish things, like throw
herself at Wyatt in an attempt to get over Anthony. She would not flirt with
him and try to get him to kiss her. Nothing good could come of that. Except, of
course, the kissing part. With a guy like Wyatt, that was bound to be good.
Nope. She wouldn’t find out.
But then again, maybe she would.
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