The Gull Motel
by Amie
Denman
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BLURB:
Savvy
Thorpe needs a vacation. Finally finished with college, she heads to her
favorite shabby motel on Florida’s Gulf Coast where her aunt and uncle always
save her room twenty-four. She quickly finds out, though, that The Gull Motel
is not just her home away from home. It’s hers to manage while her aunt and
uncle take an extended trip.
Skip
McComber, The Gull’s former maintenance man, has been working on Savvy’s nuts
and bolts for years. Now the new owner of the bar next door, his mission is to
renovate a pirate bar while being a walking temptation for the girl he can’t
get off his mind.
For
Savvy, keeping her cool running a motel in Florida heat is one thing, but
navigating the steamy waters of a former fling takes a whole other kind of
savvy. In addition to the motel and the man next door, Savvy stumbles on a plot
to swindle land from the residents of Barefoot Key. Devalued properties tumble
like dominoes until Savvy musters her colorful crew from The Gull Motel to make
the pillagers walk the plank.
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EXCERPT:
Day four of
what I had planned as a Gulf Coast vacation had me perspiring in the pool shed
and wondering what I should do.
“Need any
help?”
I whipped
around, blood rushing from surprise and something else. Of course I knew the
voice. Skip McComber leaned against the frame of the open shed door. Shirtless.
Wearing low slung jeans and a grin that registered somewhere between caution
and amusement.
He looked
like a man who knew how to run a pool pump. From experience, I knew he could
handle a lot more than that.
“I’m fine,” I
said, trying for cheerful dismissal in my tone. “Just taking a look around.”
“Taking stock
of your new property.”
“Temporary
property.”
“Since it’s
your place now and all,” he said, disregarding my comment, “looks like we’ll be
seeing a lot of each other.”
A mild
earthquake rolled under my sternum and sent shockwaves from its epicenter. Maybe
I’d have better luck with the space shuttle launch pad configuration than I
would handling Skip.
“Temporary,”
I repeated.
He nodded,
continuing to appraise me with his look. Perhaps appraisal was too glamorous a
word. He was looking at me like a cat who’d just opened the bird cage and was
wondering how much fun he could have with the bird.
Skip had been
rattling my cage since we were both sixteen. Every time I came to visit my aunt
and uncle for a vacation, an added perk had been the endorphin boost from their
local boy turned maintenance man. A skinny handsome kid, he had matured every
time I came back to the Gull until he was the full-blown man standing in front
of me.
“I know a lot
about fixing things,” he said.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Amie Denman lives in a small town in her native Ohio with her
husband and sons. Her two cats and large yellow labrador are kind enough to
share a sunny office where she lets her imagination run wild. Reading books was
her favorite escape as a child, and growing up four houses away from the
community library encouraged her addiction. When she's not reading or writing,
she enjoys walking and running outside. The helpless victim of a lifetime of
curiosity, she's been known to chase fire trucks on her bicycle just to see
what's going on. Amie believes that everything is fun: especially roller
coasters, wedding cake, and falling in love.
Amie is the author of five contemporary romance novels:
The Gull Motel
Blue Bottle Beach
Her Lucky Catch
Her Lucky Prize
Will Work for Love
He’s on Her Trail
Please visit her at http://www.amiedenman.com
On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/amie.denman.1
On Twitter @amiedenman
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ReplyDeleteI like the excerpt. Sounds like a good read.
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