Who needs a little love and a little humor right about now?
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by Stefanie London
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Blurb:
Welcome to Kissing Creek, where everything has a romance-themed pun for a name and love is lurking around every corner…
Audrey Miller doesnโt believe in happily-ever-after, so she is definitely living in the wrong town. But sheโs never getting out of Kissing Creek, because playing pseudo-mom for her younger siblings doesnโt leave time for much else. Sheโll do anything to make sure they donโt end up stuck like she is, working as a barista in a college town, serving Pink Passion mochas with Chocolate Smooch donuts.
Then Ronan Walsh, a new young professor and walking clichรฉ, right down to the elbow patches on his blazer, steps in for a coffee and into her life. She knows his typeโintelligent and charming, yet sweet as a cinnamon roll, the sort of man sheโs inevitably attracted to but is always out of her league. So why does someone like him have any interest in a worker bee with no future?
Her bland-as-oatmeal existence has nothing to offer, but Ronanโs temporary teaching position is only a stepping stone on his way to somewhere else. He isnโt here to put down roots, Audreyโs roots are firmly plantedโneither of them is looking for love. And maybe thatโs just perfect.
But in a small town called Kissing Creek, sometimes love can be impossible to avoidโฆ
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Excerpt:
Audrey cocked her head. โYou know, weโve been warned about people like you.โ
โPeople posing as professors.โ She waggled her finger at him and made a teasing, tutting sound.
โPosing?โ Ronan literally studied the very things which made people who they areโthe very fiber of their motivations and morals. He would never scam someone. But this wasnโt the first time someone had questioned him because he was younger than average. โIโm a professor at Harrison Beech College. I donโt have my faculty card yet, thatโs all.โ
โYou really thought you could get one past me by trying to look the part?โ She shook her head. โThe elbow patches were a good attempt, but donโt you think theyโre a little clichรฉ?โ
Now she was insulting his fashion choices? He blinked. โWhatโs wrong with elbow patches?โ
โItโs like you Googled โwhat do professors wear?โ and then bought the first thing you saw.โ She bit down on her lip as if stifling a laugh.
Everyone was looking at him now, but Ronan had always been impervious to embarrassment. Maybe it was years of growing up with his Irish grandmother who was as blunt as a hammer.
Although he had Googled that exact question on his first day as a professor in his late twenties. Heโd been more insecure back then, feeling the age gap between him and his colleagues and his lack of life experience like a weight around his neck. These days heโd learned to hold his own, academically and personally.
And he damn well liked his elbow patches.
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Stefanie London is a multi award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romances and romantic comedies.
Stefanieโs books have been called โgenuinely entertaining and memorableโ by Booklist, and โElegant, descriptive and delectableโ by RT magazine. Her stories have won multiple industry awards, including the HOLT Medallion and OKRWA National Reader’s Choice Award, and she has been nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA award.
Originally from Australia, Stefanie now lives in Toronto with her very own hero and is currently in the process of doing her best to travel the world. She frequently indulges in her passions for good coffee, lipstick, romance novels and anything zombie-related.
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