VEGAS VACATION
by Crystal Jordan
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BLURB:
It’s
spring break, and a group of teachers from Half Moon Bay Middle School are
planning to cut loose. History teacher Meg Phillips hadn’t planned on being one
of them—Vegas isn’t really a town for a bookworm—but somehow she let her friend
Anne talk her into it.
Though honestly, she’d rather indulge in some poolside reading than co-star in an R-rated edition of Teachers Gone Wild.
It took some major arm twisting for Finn Walsh to convince his fellow gym teacher, Anne, to do whatever it took to get Meg to Vegas. For over a year he’s been looking for the chance to get to know her outside of work. He’s drawn to her quiet beauty and intelligence—and the hint of fire beneath her understated exterior.
When he finally gets the opportunity to peel away those layers, the result is far more explosive than he ever fantasized. Now to convince her that the week isn’t a wildly out-of-character mistake, but the start of something amazing...
Though honestly, she’d rather indulge in some poolside reading than co-star in an R-rated edition of Teachers Gone Wild.
It took some major arm twisting for Finn Walsh to convince his fellow gym teacher, Anne, to do whatever it took to get Meg to Vegas. For over a year he’s been looking for the chance to get to know her outside of work. He’s drawn to her quiet beauty and intelligence—and the hint of fire beneath her understated exterior.
When he finally gets the opportunity to peel away those layers, the result is far more explosive than he ever fantasized. Now to convince her that the week isn’t a wildly out-of-character mistake, but the start of something amazing...
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EXCERPT
“Come on, Anne.
The least you can do is ask her for me. She’ll listen to you.” Finn Walsh
offered up his most winning smile, but his colleague gave him a dubious glance.
“Why exactly
would I help you get in my friend’s pants?” Anne Kirby snorted, bending her
long limbs into a stretch as they both warmed up to start the day. Teaching
physical education at a middle school kept them running. “Besides, Meg turned
you down the one time you asked her out.”
Yeah, she had.
Finn winced. “I don’t want to get in her pants.”
Anne
straightened and stared at him. “Right, I believe that one. You want to date
Meg, but you don’t want to do her.”
He lowered
himself to the wooden gym floor and grabbed the toe of his sneaker to help flex
his calf. Meg’s heart-shaped face filled his mind. Brunette curls he wanted to
tangle his fingers in, eyes that were an impossible shade of storm cloud gray.
She wasn’t tall or short, just average, but she had curves in all the right
places. Her ass, especially. Tight, round and perfect. He wanted to get his
hands on it. Hell, he wanted to get his hands on all of her, as often as
humanly possible. But if it were just about getting laid, he could find a woman
for that easily. No, he wanted Meg, specifically. “Okay, I don’t only want to get
in her pants.”
“That’s a little
more believable.” Anne smiled when the school bell rang. Within a few minutes,
gangly teens began trudging past them into the changing room.
“I mean it.”
Finn waved to a few of his students, picking himself up off the floor. “I like
her, Anne. She turned me down because she thinks it’s a bad idea to date
co-workers. She never said she wasn’t interested in me.”
Crossing her
arms, Anne shrugged. “She’s being smart about it. We had an ugly breakup
between two teachers a few years back, before you came to HMB. The memory for
those of us who were here is still pretty fresh and really harsh. I don’t know
if I’d date another teacher either. When it goes sour–”
“If, not when.
It doesn’t have to go sour.” Usually, he wasn’t one to fish in the work dating
pool either, but for Meg, he’d make an exception. She taught history, and she
was quiet, smart, and drew him like a magnet. Seeing her was his best reason to
show up for staff meetings. He liked being around her, liked her considered
approach to every controversy that came up at work. She wasn’t out-spoken and
ready to jump into the fray like Anne, but when she offered an opinion,
everyone listened. Everything about Meg appealed to Finn. There was huge
potential between them, potential for something that could actually last. He
knew it, without any doubts.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Crystal Jordan is originally
from California , but has lived all over the United States
Links:
Website:
http://www.crystaljordan.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/crystaljordan
Buy links will be added to
the book’s page on her website as they become available:
http://www.crystaljordan.com/books/vegas-vacation
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