A reality TV producer falling for her would-be star:
a
Montana heartthrob who wants nothing to do with the show.
Ready to Run
I Do, I Don't, #1
I Do, I Don't, #1
by Lauren Layne
Releasing August
22nd 2017
Loveswept
Loveswept
The Bachelor meets The
Runaway Bride in this addictive romance novel about a reality TV
producer falling for her would-be star: a Montana heartthrob who wants nothing
to do with the show.
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Damn.
Charlie hadn’t been lying about the hot blonde.
The
woman walking straight toward him was all tight jeans, high heels, and
confi-dence. And hot. Very, very hot.
Charlie
muttered something admiring under his breath, and Luke’s gaze flicked to the
man beside the woman. Tried to place him. Couldn’t.
Not
too many guys around here who wore light-purple shirts and white pants with the
same easy comfort that Lucky Hollow residents wore jeans and flannel.
No
doubt about it—neither was from around here. Not by a long shot.
The
man was a half step behind the woman, and Luke assessed that the woman was
calling the shots.
His
eyes narrowed as he realized that she hadn’t once wavered in her approach.
She
knew what she was after:
Him.
She
got closer and Luke saw that the face matched the body. Wide blue eyes, full
lips, sassy shoulder-length blond hair that was just tousled enough to make a
man wonder how it had gotten that way—to want to be the one to muss it.
Her
gaze flicked over him, and Charlie whistled and muttered under his breath. “She
just checked you out, man.”
She
had indeed, but Luke was far from flattered. It hadn’t been the assessment of a
woman checking out a man so much as a predator evaluating its prey.
As
though she was evaluating him for . . . something.
Blondie
stopped in front of him, and the second her blue eyes locked on his, Luke felt
a little jolt of awareness and was irrationally annoyed. It had been a long
time since he’d been quite so aware of a woman.
Once,
he’d enjoyed the feeling—sexual chemistry was almost the perfect combination of
pain and pleasure. A subtle punch in the gut that you wanted to experience
again and again.
These
days, though, he was having a hard time getting past the pain part. The shitty
parts had outweighed the good parts just one time too many. Now he mostly
settled for casual hookups with a divorcée a few towns over who was even less
interested in com-mitment than Luke was.
He
had zero use for attraction to a pretty, bold woman in high heels.
Luke
noticed that for a sheer moment she had a slightly off-balance look, as though
she too had felt the annoying zip of arousal when their eyes met, but she
recovered quick-ly.
Pasting
a sunny, generic smile on her face, she stuck out her right hand. “Luke
Elliott. I’m Jordan Carpenter. This is my colleague, Simon Nash.”
Good
manners had him setting down his equipment and extending his own right hand
toward hers even as his brain caught on her name. Familiar, and . . .
Shit.
Shit!
He
managed to stop from jerking his hand back, but just barely. Instead, he gritted
his teeth, gave her hand a perfunctory shake, and then fixed her with a glare.
“You’re wasting your time, Ms. Carpenter. And mine.”
Blue
eyes narrowed. “Aha. So you did get my emails.”
Those.
The voicemails. The letters.
“Sure,”
he said with a nod, shoving his hands in his pockets. “Just like I suspect you
got the message that I didn’t want to be a part of your show.”
Charlie
looked from the woman to Luke and back again. “Show?”
Ryan
ambled over, his shit-eating grin telling Luke that this damn woman had already
spilled the beans on why she was here. “Luke’s gonna be a national heartthrob.”
“International,”
said the blond guy in the purple shirt.
Jordan
Carpenter didn’t look at her companion, but all three firefighters did.
The
other man gave the sort of easy smile that probably had him making friends
easily. Luke didn’t want a new friend.
Especially
not one who wanted to use his shitty romantic past for the sake of TV ratings.
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Blurb
Jordan Carpenter thinks she’s finally found the
perfect candidate for Jilted, a new dating show about runaway
grooms: Luke Elliott, a playboy firefighter who’s left not one but three brides
at the altar. The only problem? Luke refuses to answer Jordan’s emails or
return her calls. Which is how she ends up on a flight to Montana to recruit
him in person. It’s not Manhattan but at least the locals in Lucky Hollow seem
friendly . . . except for Luke, who’s more intense—and way hotter—than the
slick womanizer Jordan expected.
Eager to put the past behind him, Luke has zero intention of following this gorgeous, fast-talking city girl back to New York. But before he can send her packing, Jordan’s everywhere: at his favorite bar, the county fair, even his exes’ book club. Annoyingly, everyone in Lucky Hollow seems to like her—and deep down, she’s starting to grow on him too. But the more he fights her constant pestering, the more Luke finds himself wishing that Jordan would kick off her high heels and make herself comfortable in his arms.
Eager to put the past behind him, Luke has zero intention of following this gorgeous, fast-talking city girl back to New York. But before he can send her packing, Jordan’s everywhere: at his favorite bar, the county fair, even his exes’ book club. Annoyingly, everyone in Lucky Hollow seems to like her—and deep down, she’s starting to grow on him too. But the more he fights her constant pestering, the more Luke finds himself wishing that Jordan would kick off her high heels and make herself comfortable in his arms.
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RUNAWAY GROOM (Book 2)
JUST RUN WITH IT (Book 3)
Lauren
Layne is the New York Times bestselling author of romantic comedies.
She lives in New York City with her husband.
A
former e-commerce and web marketing manager from Seattle, Lauren relocated to
New York City in 2011 to pursue a full-time writing career. She signed with her
agent in 2012, and her first book was published in summer of 2013. Since then,
she's written over two dozen books, hitting the USA TODAY, New York
Times, iBooks, and Amazon bestseller lists.
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