Beautiful,
vivacious Emma Prescott has a love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation. Fact is, Emma's holding off for a hero. When she moves to a cabin at wilderness Loon
Lake and meets her one neighbor biology professor Frasier MacKenzie, he's still
just another guy, even with his killer blue eyes and body that just won't
quit...until he rescues her and her Pug from one danger after another. Then he definitely falls into hero
territory. But the professor has no
intention of filling the role of white knight in Emma's life. All he wants is to be rid of her and her
annoying little dog so he can get on with his research. In fact, he's ordered
to get rid of them whether he wants to or not.
Looks like Emma may have to go on holding off for a hero...
Excerpt
She
floored the gas, and they took off with a squealing of tires.
“Hey, hey!” he yelled. “Slow down! The speed
limit is 100 km. You’re heading to 130!”
“Look,
I told you, I’m in a hurry!” she exploded.
“I’ve
got a ton of things to do back at the cabin. You see,” she continued, quieting
and sounding sly, “I’m having a party tonight. I have to get ready.”
“A
party? You’re having a party? At the lake?”
Ah,
man, that just about tears it.
“Actually,
a bachelorette bash. One of my teacher friends is getting married next week,
and a
bunch
of us decided we’d give her a real whing-ding of a sendoff…up at my cabin where
there’ll be no witnesses. Teachers and the likes of myself have reputations to
think of, you realize.”
She
cast him a wicked glance.
“So
there’ll be music and a lot of noise and…”
The
Professor’s blood pressure would skyrocket when he gave him this information.
“Oh,
y-e-a-h.” She dragged out the last word.
“Couldn’t
you have it somewhere else? Like a male strip joint in town?”
“Didn’t
you hear what I just said about teachers and others of that ilk? We can’t be
seen parading into one of those places. Our superintendent would suspend every
last one of us. Anyway…” She looked over at him. “I don’t see why it should be
such a big deal for you. You don’t have to keep banker’s hours. If the noise
bothers you, stay up, watch a video, and sleep in on Sunday morning.”
“Okay,
okay, but will you please keep your eyes on the road? And slow down! There’s a
speed trap somewhere along…”
Behind
them a siren wailed.
“Quick!”
she ordered, pulling over as the police cruiser rolled alongside. “Hunch over
and clutch
your
chest!”
Gail MacMillan is a
three-time Maxwell Award Winning writer and author of 26 published books. A graduate of Queen's University, she lives
in New Brunswick Canada
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I love this book cover, Gail! And that excerpt was hilarious!
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt! Gave me a chuckle. :)
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