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She could almost hear the fish laughing at her . . .
Cody Ryan’s father never missed fishing the annual Loon Lake tournament until his unexpected passing.
So this year, Cody packs up her how-to fishing videos and her dad’s old johnboat and gives him one final
entry.
Gage Connor needs some R&R away from his coast guard deployment catching drug smugglers
along the Louisiana coast, so he borrows a bass boat from his buddy and heads to Loon, Alabama to do
some fishing.
When Gage and Cody meet at Loon Lake, their attraction is immediate and intense—until the two
discover there is only one boat slip left on the lake and they both need it, and there’s only one vacant
hotel room left in Loon and they both want it. Thus, their competition begins. Both vow to keep their
distance from the other to fight the temptation, but fate has other plans. The tournament pairing party
picks the two-man teams and chooses Gage as Cody’s partner.
For two days.
Alone on a boat.
Working as a team.
Good things come to those who bait . . .
Read an Excerpt
Feeling the hotel room being yanked out from underneath her, Cody lost her grip on her temper. “I
don’t care. I arrived here first.” She wheeled on Velma. “Tell him.”
Velma had a hard time meeting the man’s glittering green eyes, and Cody feared the worst. “Velma, you
have to go with the first person who arrived here, and that was me.”
Velma visibly wavered, and her gaze bounced between Cody, Mr. Never-Had-Any-Patience, and her
twin, who looked ready to burst into tears.
“It’s not your fault, Sister.” She patted Delma’s hand. “You didn’t know we were upstairs. I’ll handle
this.”
Velma faced her two potential guests and announced, “We’ll flip for it.”
Delma immediately beamed.
“What?” Cody cried.
“Fine by me,” the stranger snapped and crossed his arms on his oversized and quite muscular pecs. Not
that Cody was staring.
Velma reached into her apron pocket and drew out a silver dollar. She smiled at Cody. “Since you were
here first, you can call it, and you can have heads if you want. I always liked heads in a coin toss, and I
always got lucky calling heads.” Her eyes twinkled at Cody.
“Fine. Heads it is,” Cody said.
The coin flipped high in the air. Velma deftly caught it with her right hand and smacked the coin on top
of her left. “Heads it is,” she proclaimed.
Cody blew out a sigh of relief.
“Hey, wait a minute,” the stranger complained.
“See for yourself.” Velma angled her hand for him to snatch a glimpse and then chucked the coin back
into her pocket.
Cody stared him right in the eye. “I win.”
He eased closer—almost nose to nose—and she reconsidered her idea to gloat. His emerald eyes
darkened, turned almost black, and locked onto hers. She could hear and feel each breath he took,
because she held hers. Waiting.
“Share it with me.”
His gaze never wavered. She could feel it, almost like a caress.
“I promise I won’t touch you . . . if you don’t want me to.” The latter implied he wanted exactly the
opposite.
About the Author:
Petie
spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—"The Most Magical Place on
Earth"—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy
tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her
"day" job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency
time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery
Angel Romances.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an
opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No Angels for Christmas.
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