Love, betrayal, and sweet
revenge--
life in Cottonbloom is about to
get a whole lot hotter . . .
Leave The Night On
Cottonbloom, #4
Cottonbloom, #4
by Laura Trentham
Releasing August 1st 2017
St. Martin’s Press
St. Martin’s Press
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . LEAVE THE
NIGHT ON (Cottonbloom, #4) . . . Sutton and Wyatt
began as just a way to get payback. Neither was expecting to find the experience
to be so bonding. This small-town romance has a taste of this and a hint of
that. Cottonbloom has made its presence known. Watching Sutton and Wyatt get to
know each other while at the same time stirring a bit of a ruckus in town was
fun and entertaining.
This
was my first read from Trentham in this series. I found this small-town life
had captured my attention, gave me laughs, good people, and a sense of home. This
read gave me good writing, well rounded characters, a few laughs, and a sweet
building romance between two people that have seen each other but didn’t really
see each other. Watching then grow closer was beautiful.
Cottonbloom series:
Kiss Me
That Way – Cottonbloom, #1
Then He
Kissed Me – Cottonbloom, #2
Till I
Kissed You – Cottonbloom, #3
Candy
Cane Christmas – Cottonbloom, #3.5
Light
Up the Night – Cottonbloom, #3.75
Leave
the Night On – Cottonbloom, #4
When
the Stars Come Out – Cottonbloom, #5
Blurb
Sutton Mize is known for lavishing attention on the customers who flock to her boutique on the wealthy side of her Mississippi town. So when she finds a lace thong in her fiance's classic cherry-red Camaro, she knows just who she sold it to: her own best friend. In an instant, Sutton's whole world goes up in flames. . .
Wyatt Abbott has harbored a crush on Sutton since he was a young kid from the other side of the tracks. He witnessed Sutton's shocking discovery in the Camaro at his family-owned garage--and it made him angry. What kind of man could take lovely, gorgeous Sutton for granted? But then Sutton comes up with an idea: Why not give her betrothed a taste of his own medicine and pretend that she's got a lover of her own? Wyatt is more than happy to play the hot-and-heavy boyfriend. But what begins as a fictional affair soon develops into something more real, and more passionate, than either Sutton or Wyatt could have imagined. Could it be that true love has been waiting under the hood all along?
Sutton Mize is known for lavishing attention on the customers who flock to her boutique on the wealthy side of her Mississippi town. So when she finds a lace thong in her fiance's classic cherry-red Camaro, she knows just who she sold it to: her own best friend. In an instant, Sutton's whole world goes up in flames. . .
Wyatt Abbott has harbored a crush on Sutton since he was a young kid from the other side of the tracks. He witnessed Sutton's shocking discovery in the Camaro at his family-owned garage--and it made him angry. What kind of man could take lovely, gorgeous Sutton for granted? But then Sutton comes up with an idea: Why not give her betrothed a taste of his own medicine and pretend that she's got a lover of her own? Wyatt is more than happy to play the hot-and-heavy boyfriend. But what begins as a fictional affair soon develops into something more real, and more passionate, than either Sutton or Wyatt could have imagined. Could it be that true love has been waiting under the hood all along?
Sutton's
hand found Wyatt's like a magnet finding its mate, and she knitted their
fingers together. Music drifted through the trees.
“You
know how to two-step?” Wyatt asked.
“No, but
I learned how to waltz and foxtrot during cotillion, a lot of good that does
me.”
Wyatt
tugged her into a faster walk. “I’ll teach you.
“No way.
Not in front of everyone. I’ll look like an idiot.” She pulled at his arm, but
inertia was on his side.
“That’s
your fear talking. Come on and take a chance on me.”
Even
though he was talking about something as simple as a dance, the moment felt
like a tipping point. Fearful or brave? Which did she choose?
She quit
fighting and let him lead her into the circle of light. A handful of couples
danced, but a majority of the partiers hung around the edges talking and
watching. Before her feet could mount a rebellion and retreat, Wyatt spun her
around and put a firm hand on her upper back, holding her other hand in a
typical dance hold.
“The
two-step is simple. Four steps, two quick, two slow. I step forward on my left,
and you step back on your right. Okay?”
She made
an affirmative sounding hum and tried to assimilate what he was saying, but
heat streaked across her back where his hand branded her. All the eyes fixed on
them didn’t help her concentration.
He
counted them off, and she made it two steps before screwing up. She bit the
inside of her cheek. “I can’t do it.”
“You’re
acting like this is worse than a firing squad. What are you thinking about?”
“Amoebas.”
He gave
a slight shake of his head before bursting out in chesty laughter that sent
vibrations through his hold to her. “Dare I ask why?”
“I feel
like we’re being examined like reproducing amoebas through a microscope.”
“If I
recall my high school biology, amoebas are asexual. I’m not. Forget about
everyone else and look at me.”
She
focused on his face. The flickering fire set gold sparking in his gray eyes,
and since he’d invited her to, she let her gaze linger on all his features, but
especially his mouth. His lips were mouthing “quick-quick-slow-slow,” and she
dabbed her bottom lip with her tongue, remembering what they’d felt like
against hers.
“You’re
dancing.” His sweet, sexy lips turned up in a smile.
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An award-winning author, Laura Trentham was
born and raised in a small town in Tennessee. Although, she loved English and
reading in high school, she was convinced an English degree equated to
starvation. She chose the next most logical major—Chemical Engineering—and
worked in a hard hat and steel toed boots for several years.
She writes sexy, small town contemporaries and
smoking hot Regency historicals. The first two books of her Falcon Football
series were named Top Picks by RT Book Reviews magazine. Then He Kissed Me,
a Cottonbloom novel, was named as one of Amazon’s best romances of 2016.
When not lost in a cozy Southern town or Regency England, she's shuttling kids
to soccer, helping with homework, and avoiding the Mt. Everest-sized pile of
laundry that is almost as large as the to-be-read pile of books on her
nightstand.
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