IT
HAPPENED ON LOVE STREET
Author: Lia Riley
Series: Everland,
Georgia
On Sale: April 25,
2017
Publisher: Forever
Mass Market: $7.99
USD
eBook: $5.99 USD
In
the tradition of New York Times
bestselling authors Kristan Higgins, Jill Shalvis, and Marina Adair, comes the
first in a new series by Lia Riley about two city sisters finding love in a
small town.
The
most romantic place she never wanted to be . . .
Pepper
Knight moved to Everland, Georgia, as step one in her plan for a successful
legal career. But after this big-city gal's plans go awry, going home with her
tail between her legs isn't an option. So when the town vet—
and
her sexy new neighbor—offers Pepper a temporary dog-walking job, she jumps at
the chance. No one needs to know that man's best friend is her worst nightmare
. . . or that Everland's hot animal whisperer leaves her panting.
The
last thing Rhett Valentine wants is to be the center of small-town gossip.
After his first love left him at the altar, he's been there, done that. These
days, life is simple, just the way he likes it. But sultry southern nights get
complicated once sparks fly between him and the knockout next door. When she
proposes a sexy, secret fling—all the deliciousness and none of the prying
neighbors-it seems too good to be true. And it is. Because Pepper's determined
to leave Love Street, and when she goes, she just might take his heart with her
. . .
“Here’s an idea.” He nudged his finger on
hers. “Say we—and this is purely hypothetically—enjoyed the . . . ahem . .
.pleasure of each other’s company in the privacy of ourhomes.”
“Hypothetically, kept it casual and under
the radar?”
She nudged back. “When I leave, there’s no
heartbreak, no drama, and no one is the wiser.”
“Interesting theory?” He reached out, his
hand splaying her knee. “Or recipe for disaster?”
Tingles shot up her thigh. His skin was
warm, those fingers very big and very male. “I have enough to worry about with
my future. If you don’t need me for more than a little here and now? I might be
persuaded. Hypothetically.”
He moved his hand from her knee to the back
of her neck. The touch melted her faster than an ice cube in the July sun.
“What are you thinking?” she murmured.
His deep blue gaze locked on hers and there
it came again, that curious sensation of floating and drowning. “That I’d like
to hypothetically kiss you.”
There was a sudden roaring in her ears, a
whoosh of blood. “Well, there’s only one way to test a hypothesis.”
Slowly, oh so slowly, he dipped forward.
His lips didn’t settle on hers like she expected. Instead, he kissed the center
of her forehead, softly, experimentally. A tremble rocked through him.
The evening air was sultry, no a hint of
chill. The idea that she shook this steadfast man sent a shiver of need through
the join of her thighs, a throbbing shudder that swelled to an ache as he
peppered a light trail of kisses down her temple, and then moved lower. He took
his sweet time on her cheeks, treating her as something to savor, a delicious
dessert you didn’t want to wolf in one bite. Tension spread through her body,
pulling tighter and tighter, her belly doing a fluttery dips and dives.
When he finally reached her lips, it seemed
reasonable to expect that the kiss would be as soft as the others. Silly. Because
Rhett was full of surprises. He didn’t hold back, his tongue was greedy,
insistent, and hungry. Their teeth banged together. A chair tipped over. They
crashed against a table leg, sent it screeching across the floor.
“In theory, you’re a good kisser,” she
gasped, tracing her lower lip with her tongue. The skin was puffy, aching.
“Let me experiment a bit more. The initial
results are promising.”
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IT HAPPENED ON LOVE
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FOREVER AND ALWAYS, #2
Lia
Riley is a contemporary romance author. USA
Today describes her as "refreshing" and RT Book Reviews calls her books "sizzling and heartfelt."
She loves her husband, three kids, wandering redwood forests and a perfect pour
over coffee. She is 25% sarcastic, 54% optimistic, and 122% bad at math (good
thing she writes happy endings for a living). She and her family live mostly in
Northern California.
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