If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen...
Making Whoopie, an all-new not-to-be-missed marriage of convenience romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Erin Nicholas, is available now!
Getting
hitched for the health insurance is not Jocelyn Asher’s idea of romance.
But
the hospital quote has really frosted her cookies, and suddenly, “I’m rich. We
should just get married,” sounds a whole lot more swoony.
Especially
when the man proposing is this gorgeous. And takes her to parties featuring
champagne and petit fours. She’s a sucker for anything with bubbles or icing.
And just like that she finds herself married to a near stranger.
Grant
Lorre is usually allergic to spontaneity.
So
why did he ask the beautiful small-town baker he had a one-night stand with to
marry him? Somehow watching her lick batter off a whisk--not a euphemism--made
a wedding and a little fraud seem like a sweet idea.
They’ll
just play house and make some whoopie--pies, of course--for a few months and
then move on with their separate lives. Until then, bring on the cream filling.
And that is a euphemism.
But as things heat up even outside of the kitchen, they quickly realize there’s no recipe to follow when it comes to love.
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Excerpt
No one fell in love over
cheesy potatoes.
That was ridiculous. There
was nothing sexy about cheesy potatoes. Or potatoes without cheese, for that
matter.
But lust? Well, that was a
possibility. Apparently.
Because watching Grant Lorre
eat cheesy potatoes across her best friend’s mother’s dining room table was
making Jocelyn Asher hot.
Of course, Maggie McCaffery’s
cheesy potatoes were award-winning. Seriously. She’d taken home the purple
ribbon four times from the Dubuque County Fair and twice from the Iowa State
Fair. And Grant seemed to agree that they were delicious. He’d made a sexy
groaning sound when he’d first taken a bite, and Josie had been mesmerized as
his lips closed around the tines of his fork. Never mind how her heart rate had
picked up when he’d turned the fork and licked
it.
She was a mess. Purple ribbon
or not, Josie was pretty sure that getting worked up over watching a man eat
potatoes meant she was hard up.
She took a long drink of iced
tea and tried to remember the last time she’d had sex. If she wasn’t forgetting
anyone—and how sad would that be—the
last time had been with Ben Davis. After Kara Davis’s, now Tibbin’s, wedding.
Last week Kara had been into
Buttered Up, the bakery where Josie worked with her best friend Zoe, to order a
miniature version of her wedding cake to celebrate their first anniversary.
Josie sighed. That had to
explain the sexy potato thing going on across the table. It had to.
But then Grant laughed at
something Aiden, his best friend and Zoe’s fiancé—yes, it was one big happy
group at this table—said, and Josie felt her neglected lady parts clench. Yeah,
it wasn’t the potatoes.
Thankfully.
Kind of.
As weird as getting turned on
by potatoes might be, it might have
been preferable to being turned on by the man who had been coming into the
bakery nearly every morning for the past two weeks, but hadn’t so much as asked
her to have a cup of coffee with him.
He’d asked her if the
blueberries in the muffins were locally sourced. He’d asked her if they had any
gluten-free cinnamon scones. He’d asked her for a lemon slice for his cup of
hot water. But that was pretty much the extent of the things he’d asked her
over the course of the time they’d known each other.
Oh, and he’d caught her when
she’d fallen off a ladder. Twice. Very gallantly.
He’d swept her up before
she’d hit the floor. Like a freaking knight in shining armor.
But both times he’d simply
set her on her feet and gone on with his day.
She, on the other hand, was now getting hot and bothered by side dishes.
REVIEW:
A marriage of convenience, or an excuse to marry someone you want? I think this is my favorite book of the series so far. I loved everything about this book. Grant was wealthy, where money was concerned, but not in knowledge of relationships, or at least, healthy relationships. Josie was the ultimate romantic. No matter how hard he tried he couldn’t stay away. Even though she told herself to be careful, well, the best laid plans and all that.
I completely understood why he offered her what he did, I just think he was fooling himself with the belief that it was the only reason. I liked seeing the confident man show vulnerability as much as I liked seeing the woman being strong. The timing of the realization they had were sleep spot on. This series keeps getting better and better and I can’t wait to see what happens with Cam’s story.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest, voluntary review.
About Erin
Nicholas
New
York Times and USA
Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as
long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy,
contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,”
“steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and
happily ever afters.
Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her
husband (who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books), her kids (who
will never read the sex scenes in her books), and her family and friends (who
claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).
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