No Place Like Home
by Jennifer Kacey
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GENRE:
Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Coming Home, Book 1
In high school, Bianca Charleston was a nobody. An overweight
wallflower, so invisible that Cole, the boy she had a crush on, never even knew
she existed.
Things have changed, and she’s finally ready to show off her new
bombshell look. Sort of. Maybe. After a one-sided pep talk with her cat, she
takes a deep breath and flies home to help out with the annual hospital
carnival. Cole is there, too—and he still has no idea who she is.
FBI field officer Cole Johnson doesn’t have an easy job, and his nights
are usually booked solid. Then in walks Charlie, a blonde with
killer…everything. Suddenly he’s mentally clearing his schedule for a rare
night out. While Charlie doesn’t do one-night stands, somehow after-dinner
dessert is served up against the wall of her hotel room. But happiness will
have to navigate an emotional minefield of preconceived notions—and a couple of
not-so-secret stumbling blocks.
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EXCERPT:
“You look beautiful. I’m glad you didn’t take my advice on casual.
It’s…beautiful.” He shook his head after he stared at her for a few more
seconds and then took a drink of what looked like water. They each had a glass
in front of them.
“Kia made me buy it.” She blurted it out and then reached for her
wrapped silverware to have something to do with her hands. She unwrapped it,
setting the silverware on the table and the napkin across her lap.
“I’ll have to remember to thank her. I’ve never been that big a fan of
the little black dress hoopla, but on you? Big fan.”
His smile. It melted her. “Thanks,” she managed with a hesitant smile.
Attention from a man with his sex appeal threw her off. What she really wanted
to do was put her chin on her hand so she could stare at him for the rest of
the evening.
But she wouldn’t.
Not at all.
“So, how did the rest of the packet delivering go?”
She took a drink of water since her mouth had gone dry with him this
close. “Good actually. It’s been a while since I was here to help with any of
this. Since high school really. It surprised me how many people are still
around. How many people never left. Or left and came back. Can’t believe it’s
almost been ten years. Seems a lifetime ago.”
“And you’re sure we met in high school? You’re sure of it?”
Wanting to giggle and groan at the same time was a new one for her.
“Only a few hundred times.”
“It just doesn’t seem possible. Surely I’d remember you.” He gave her a
once over from head to waist. Everything he could see above the table probably.
Shaking her head seemed like the thing to do. “I was very different in
high school. Popularity was the name of a very distant planet when I was a
teenager.”
“Can’t imagine you being that different. Truly. Care to give me your
name and I can look you up? High school yearbooks and all should be good for
something other than killing spiders.”
“Nope.”
He chuckled and picked up his menu. “You do know what I do for a living,
right? I could run your plates and figure it out within five minutes. I could
show you my ID if that would help.”
“You wouldn’t.”
“Ha. If you could see your face right now.” He chuckled and she tried to
wipe the panic off her face and probably didn’t do a very good job. “I won’t.
I’d much rather figure it out on my own. I love solving puzzles.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jennifer Kacey is a writer, mother, and business owner living with her
miniman in Texas. She sings in the shower, plays piano in her dreams, and has
to have a different color of nail polish every week. She’s the Amazon top
seller/evil mastermind of the Elite Warriors Series and award winning author of
the Members Only Series and the Surrender Series along with several standalone
novels and novellas. The best advice she’s ever been given? Find the real you
and never settle for anything less. Connect with her on twitter @JenniferKacey
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