Nell Newbery has trust issues. It’s hard to trust when
you’re the daughter of a fallen financial scion who bilked people out of
billions. Nell’s done everything in her power to keep away from men who see her
as their ticket to fortune and fame. All she wants to do is run her
ultra-successful business, HELPFUL HUNKS, in peace.
But it wouldn’t hurt to find a guy who doesn’t know a thing
about her father’s felonious past; one she can give her heart to and trust it
won’t come back to her battered, bruised, and broken.
Is Charlie Churchill that guy? On the surface he seems
perfect, all polished manners and quiet mirth. Nell’s convinced he knows
nothing about her, other than she likes superhero movies and views junk food as
a food group.
Can she trust him to be what he appears to be? Or is he just
pretending?
For Nell, trust is everything in life…and in love.
Excerpt
He
opened the passenger door for me and I got in.
“You
never answered me,” he said when I was seated. “Would you like to do this again?”
I’d
lived my entire adult life taking chances in my professional life but shying
away from them in my personal one. The reasons to avoid becoming involved were
valid ones, in my mind, and they’d served me well.
But
there was something so different about this man, something that wanted me to
finally give in and take a chance that he wouldn’t be like all the other men
I’d gotten close to. He wouldn’t use me to his own end; he wouldn’t betray me;
he wouldn’t lie to me about who and what he was.
And
dammit, I deserved to have some fun.
All
this ran through my head as he stood, patiently waiting for my answer.
It
really didn’t take much effort on my part to make a decision. With a half grin
and my gaze staying zeroed in on his, I reached into my briefcase and pulled
out one of my business cards. While the driver waited, I wrote my private cell
number on the back of it. There were only five people on the planet who had
this number.
Now,
Charlie did as well.
As I handed it to him, I cocked my head and
said, “Maybe next time we can get through an evening without me needing first
aid or being mugged.”
His
jaw wide smile made my stomach muscles flutter. He leaned in, gave me a quick
peck on the cheek and said, “Where would the fun be in that?”
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Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies
about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live
without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears
rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer!
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.
A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, Peggy is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.
When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.
A lifelong and avid romance reader and writer, Peggy is a member of RWA and her local New Hampshire RWA Chapter.
As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"
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