Who named the heroine?
Oct 15, 2023 3:53 pm
WINNER: Name That Character Contest!
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I still can't talk--14 days and counting--but the show must go on! I'm working on The One Timer which starts with a one-night stand. It happens just before Christmas, so it has a holiday vibe. And the heroine (currently nameless!) disappears before morning and he wants to find her, so there's a Cinderella vibe going too!
And now I've chosen the NAME for my HEROINE!
Check out the WINNER of the NAME THAT CHARACTER CONTEST for The One Timer Below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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This week's serving of Today's Sizzling Snippet
🔥🔥🔥 'adult audience only' 🔥🔥🔥excerpt from The Big Puck
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I think she did a great job representing the romance genre in a very positive light. 💜
In the meantime, I missed a cooking class last night. Another in the list of experiences I'd been looking forward to. But I'll make up for it as soon as I'm better.
Anyone know any good home-style remedies for laryngitis? There could be some I haven't tried...
My diet, you ask? I've managed to keep the 6lbs off that I lost since I got sick--still--the gold lining. Plus I'm out walking because we're having some glorious autumn weather here in NH!
We'll see what happens after eating all that pill-accompanied food.
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The Do-Over Girl - a hockey rom-com
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NAME THAT CHARACTER CONTEST!
THE WINNERS: Kim Scholar & Colleen Conklin
WINNING NAME: EMERY O'KEEFE
A BIG Thank You to Everyone who entered the contest! Appreciated every single entry and idea, and especially the names with stories to them. 💜
“With a name like Chase, I should have known you’d catch up with me,” Emery says.
Sporting a wry smile, she pretends to be all casual, like she doesn't care. But it's easy to see through her act, especially after spending that one night together.
There was nothing casual about that night, or her.
That night was certifiably special, everything about it, from start to finish.
Only problem is, even though I’m dying to re-live the night, she’s not.
Chase Whittier, just up from the minors to join the NHL's new Portsmouth Whalers, is riding high and out to celebrate in Boston after their win against the Brawlers.
In a departure from his usual behavior, he takes a woman home for a one night stand.
Except this woman and this night are not what he expects from a one-night-stand. He connects with her on a level he’s never experienced before. This can’t be normal.
But when she disappears before the morning without a trace, he's more than disappointed because he didn't get her number--or her last name. And though he doesn’t expect to ever see her again, she stays on his mind.
Until two weeks later when he goes to his grandma’s in Boston for Christmas and finds her there.
She's his grandma's caretaker. And not happy to see him. At all...
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WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT!
🔥🔥Today's Sizzling Snippet 🔥🔥
from THE BIG PUCK
“I thought I was dreaming,” I whisper, still afraid I might wake up and only wish he were here. His eyes are dilated to near black, making the golden specs leap out at me, licking me like flames. His jaw is clenched tight with desire etched in the lines around his mouth. The smooth bulge of muscles in his shoulders and chest glisten with water droplets, leading my eyes down his torso. He lets go of his cock.
“No—don’t stop on my account.” The words leap from my chest, almost taking my stampeding heart with them.
A laugh rumbles from inside him, strained and real and gritty. “Sweetheart, the only reason I started was on your account. Come here.”
The invitation is raw and impossible to deny, to even think about denying. In fact, it’s a command, and I’m so under his spell I automatically follow because let’s face it, if this were a dream, this is how I would dream it—with him commanding me to join him in the shower.
I don’t even know how or why I pulled off my clothes sometime in the night—wait, that’s not true. I think I have a good idea, remembering my dream about Spence as I step under the spray of hot water. Reaching out, I touch the smooth muscles of his chest because I need to convince myself he’s real.
“What are you doing here?” I finally think to ask what he’s doing in my room, but he cuts me off with his mouth on mine, pulling me in. Of course, this is what he’s doing here—fulfilling your dream.
Instead of answering me, he wraps an arm around me, crushing me to his hard body as he leans against the shower wall and runs a hand up and down and back up, before taking my chin. “Do you want this?”
“Yes, oh God, yes—”
He swallows my words covering my mouth as he tilts my head back and plunges deep inside with his tongue. At the same time, I grind against him, his stiff heavy cock throbbing between my thighs, and I long for that contact, that touch.
He lets go of my mouth, breath heaving, and runs both hands down my body.
“I want to worship you, touch you, explore every part of you, Lainey.” His fingers skitter over my hips and across my belly to the center of my thighs as he turns me around so that my rear presses against his erection as it nestles between my cheeks, sending a delicious shiver through me.
At the same time, he lowers his mouth to my ear, breathing and murmuring how beautiful I am as his fingers explore, lightly drawing circles around my...
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Coming in 2024!
Two Pucks: Portsmouth Whalers series
a fake relationship billionaire accidental pregnancy hockey rom-com
Sabien
What does a billionaire hockey player and a clueless dog walker have in common?
Besides my dog, we both enjoyed spending one hot night burning up the sheets.
And we both need something desperately enough to strike a deal.
Possibly the stupidest deal ever imagined according to my lawyer.
But once it's done, we're in bed together--literally--for the duration of the season.
The one rule is that we agree to part ways cleanly at the end of the contract. My lawyer insists.
No contact allowed.
No matter what...
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Coming in 2024
Tricky Puck - a fake fiancee hockey rom-com
Normally, I'd do anything for grandma, but this is a big ask.
I'm not ready to settle down. Not even close. I'm only twenty-five and a rising star in the NHL - otherwise known as a chick-magnet.
After all the hard work and focus I've put in to get to this point, I've barely begun to have fun. No way am I going along with the matchmaking plan.
Sure.
That attitude changes fast when grandma informs me her clock is ticking and her time's almost up.
And her dying wish is to see me settled down with a nice young woman.
Shit.
She goes on about babies, but my mind is spinning with the knowledge that I have no choice. I need to go along with this matchmaking deal for grandma.
Unless I can come up with a way to give her the comfort she wants, the illusion that I'm settled down--without actually settling down...
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She hated her brother's best friend, but she couldn't resist his tasty treats.
There were few people who could frustrate Georgia Rookwood the way that Noah Caraden frustrated her.
But her hockey player brother had invested money into her bakery, and he insisted that she accept the help of his friend who was the accountant for the Chicago Otters.
So Georgia's brother can never find out about the night Noah came over to balance her books and made the bakery hotter than her chili chocolate brownies.
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Hope you're enjoying the full fall experience--especially football--or romance books--or both. I'm looking forward to hockey season starting in less than 2 weeks! What's your favorite fun fall thing?
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