Mistletoe
The Smokey Blues,
#6
by Emily Mims
Date of
Publication: November 20th 2017
Publisher:
Boroughs Publishing Group
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Artist: Boroughs Publishing Group
Genre:
Romance
Tagline: Can the holiday season turn
make-believe into real passion, love and romance?
BLURB
Aspiring songwriter Caitlyn
Murphy is tired of sister’s hand-me-downs. From toys and bicycles to men, it
seemed like everything in Caitlyn’s life first belonged to her late sister.
Roped into doing Christmas for motherless nieces, and entering into a pretend
romance with their dangerously attractive father, Caitlyn soon finds herself
falling in love with the girls, and the enigmatic Tanner Dyson. She resists the
temptation and Tanner’s insistence that they make their pretend relationship
real. She wants her own family, not the one her sister had first.
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“I
haven’t dated anybody since I lost your sister.” Tanner laced his fingers
together. “But yes, before I fell in love with Meghan, I mostly dated dancers
and other women who worked in the clubs. I guess we’re going to have to work
that much harder to make it believable.”
Caitlyn
eyed him curiously. “How do we do that?”
“We start
by spending the rest of this evening together, like we can’t bear to be
separated from one another. We sit down tomorrow morning and come up with some
concrete plans, both for the girls’ Christmas this year and for some public
outings for you and me so it looks like we’re dating. We see how it goes. Do
you have time for a short outing with them tomorrow? Something they can tell my
mother about if she asks?”
“I can
take them somewhere. It might be pretty simple.”
“Simple
is fine." He glanced down the hall. “Let’s get back to the reception and
put this whole thing in motion.”
She would
help. But she didn’t have to like it. She would make damned sure both her
mother and her Aunt Bea knew she didn’t particularly appreciate being
shanghaied into a ridiculous subterfuge with Tanner Dyson. She didn’t even like
him all that much. And she wasn’t all that close to the girls. How would she
know what they wanted or needed to celebrate Christmas?
They
returned to the party and made a beeline for the champagne fountain. He filled
two flutes and handed one to her, his fingers warm where they brushed against
hers. She resisted the urge to down the champagne in one nervous gulp and
instead sipped it slowly, determined to ignore the curious looks she and Tanner
were getting, especially when he settled his hand at her waist in a casual show
of possession. To her surprise, the warmth of his hand felt comfortable,
reassuring even.
She
looked around to see if the Dysons had seen them together. She couldn’t spot
them in the crowd, but she did catch Timberlynn’s eye as her sister gave her an
almost imperceptible wink. Her mother or Aunt Bea must have filled Timberlynn
in on what was going on. Her sister would probably laugh all the way home
tonight. Trish looked at them curiously, especially after Tanner pulled her
close for a hug, and leaned over and whispered something to Asher. Suddenly the
magnitude of the ruse she and Tanner were trying to pull swept over her. Who
else besides the Dysons were they going to try to fool? Just them? Or everybody
in Kingsport?
Author Info
Author of thirty-four romance
novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public
education until leaving the classroom to write full time. The mother of two
sons and six grandsons, she and her husband live in central Texas but
frequently visit their grandchildren in Tennessee and Georgia. For relaxation,
she plays four musical instruments: the piano, the ukulele, the organ and the
dulcimer.
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