by Bella Andre
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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THE LOOK OF LOVE
Chloe Peterson is having a bad
night. A really bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest to that.
And when her car skids off the side of a wet country road straight into a
ditch, she's convinced even the gorgeous guy who rescues her in the middle of
the rain storm must be too good to be true. Or is he?
As a successful photographer who
frequently travels around the world, Chase Sullivan has his pick of beautiful
women, and whenever he's home in San Francisco, one of his seven siblings is
usually up for causing a little fun trouble. Chase thinks his life is great
just as it is--until the night he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the side
of the road in Napa Valley. Not only has he never met anyone so lovely, both
inside and out, but he quickly realizes she has much bigger problems than her
damaged car. Soon, he is willing to move mountains to love--and protect--her,
but will she let him?
FROM THIS MOMENT ON
For thirty-six years, Marcus Sullivan
has been the responsible older brother, stepping in to take care of his seven
siblings after their father died when they were children. But when the
perfectly ordered future he's planned for himself turns out to be nothing but a
lie, Marcus needs one reckless night to shake free from it all.
Nicola Harding is known throughout
the world by only one name - Nico - for her catchy, sensual pop songs. Only,
what no one knows about the twenty-five year old singer is that her sex-kitten
image is totally false. After a terrible betrayal by a man who loved fame far
more than he ever loved her, she vows not to let anyone else get close enough
to find out who she really is...or hurt her again. Especially not the gorgeous
stranger she meets at a nightclub, even though the hunger - and the sinful
promises - in his dark eyes make her want to spill all her secrets.
CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
Gabe Sullivan risks his life every
day as a firefighter in San Francisco. But after learning a brutal lesson about
professional boundaries, he knows better than to risk his heart to his fire
victims ever again. Especially the brave mother and daughter he saved from a
deadly apartment fire...and can't stop thinking about.
Megan Harris knows she owes the
heroic firefighter everything for running into a burning building to save her
and her seven-year-old daughter. Everything except her heart. Because after
losing her navy pilot husband five years ago, she has vowed to never suffer
through loving - and losing - a man with a dangerous job again.
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EXCERPT
Enjoy the following excerpt from THE LOOK OF LOVE...
Chase
almost missed the flickering light off on the right side of the two-lane
country road. In the past thirty minutes, he hadn’t passed a single car,
because on a night like this, most sane Californians—who didn’t know the first
thing about driving safely in inclement weather—stayed home.
Knowing
better than to slam on the brakes—he wouldn’t be able to help whomever was
stranded on the side of the road if he ended up stuck in the muddy ditch right
next to them—Chase slowed down enough to see that there was definitely a
vehicle stuck in the ditch.
He
turned his brights on to see better in the pouring rain and realized there was
a person walking along the edge of the road about a hundred yards up ahead.
Obviously hearing his car approach, she turned to face him and he could see her
long wet hair whipping around her shoulders in his headlights.
Wondering
why she wasn’t just sitting in her car, dry and warm, calling Triple A and
waiting for them to come save her, he pulled over to the edge of his lane and
got out to try and help her. She was shivering as she watched him approach.
"Are
you hurt?"
She
covered her cheek with one hand, but shook her head. "No."
He
had to move closer to hear her over the sound of the water hitting the pavement
in what were rapidly becoming hailstones. Even though he’d turned his
headlights off, as his eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness, he was able to
get a better look at her face.
Something
inside of Chase’s chest clenched tight.
Despite
the long, dark hair plastered to her head and chest, regardless of the fact
that looking like a drowned rat wasn’t too far off the descriptive mark, her
beauty stunned him.
In
an instant, his photographer’s eye cataloged her features. Her mouth was a
little too big, her eyes a little too wide-set on her face. She wasn’t even
close to model thin, but given the way her T-shirt and jeans stuck to her skin,
he could see that she wore her lush curves well. In the dark he couldn’t judge
the exact color of her hair, but it looked like silk, perfectly smooth and
straight where it lay over her breasts.
It
wasn’t until Chase heard her say, "My car is definitely hurt,
though," that he realized he had completely lost the thread of what he’d
come out here to do.
Knowing
he’d been drinking her in like he was dying of thirst, he worked to recover his
balance. He could already see he’d been right about her car. It didn’t take a
mechanic like his brother, Zach, who owned an auto shop—more like forty, but
Chase had stopped counting years ago—to see that her shitty hatchback was
borderline totaled. Even if the front bumper wasn’t half smashed to pieces by
the white farm fence she’d slid into, her bald tires weren’t going to get any
traction on the mud. Not tonight, anyway.
If
her car had been in a less precarious situation, he probably would have sent
her to hang out in her car while he took
care of getting it unstuck. But one of her back tires was hanging precariously
over the edge of the ditch.
He
jerked his thumb over his shoulder. "Get in my car. We can wait there for
a tow truck." He was vaguely aware of his words coming out like an order,
but the hail was starting to sting, damn it. Both of them needed to get out of
the rain before they froze.
But
the woman didn’t move. Instead, she gave him a look that said he was a complete
and utter nut-job.
"I’m
not getting into your car."
Realizing
just how frightening it must be for a lone woman to end up stuck and alone in
the middle of a dark road, Chase took a step back from her. He had to speak
loudly enough for her to hear him over the hail.
"I’m
not going to attack you. I swear I won’t do anything to hurt you."
She
all but flinched at the word attack and Chase’s radar started buzzing. He’d
never been a magnet for troubled women, wasn’t the kind of guy who thrived on
fixing wounded birds. But living with two sisters for so many years meant he
could always tell when something was up.
And
something was definitely up with this woman, beyond the fact that her car was
half-stuck in a muddy ditch.
Wanting
to make her feel safe, he held his hands up. "I swear on my father’s
grave, I’m not going to hurt you. It’s okay to get into my car." When she
didn’t immediately say no again, he pressed his advantage with, "I just
want to help you." And he did. More than it made sense to want to help a
stranger. "Please," he said. "Let me help you."
She
stared at him for a long moment, hail hammering between them, around them, onto
them. Chase found himself holding his breath, waiting for her decision. It
shouldn’t matter to him what she decided.
But,
for some strange reason, it did.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Bella Andre is the New York
Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of "The
Sullivans", "The Maverick Billionaires", "The
Morrisons", and the NYT bestselling "Four Weddings and a Fiasco"
sweet romance series written as Lucy Kevin.
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Having sold more than 6
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and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 32
times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon (on a top 10 list that
included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Steven King), and
Publishers Weekly named Oak Press (the publishing company she created to
publish her own books) the Fastest-Growing Independent Publisher in the US.
After signing a groundbreaking 7-figure print-only deal with Harlequin MIRA,
Bella's "The Sullivans" series is being released in paperback in the
US, Canada, and Australia.
Known for "sensual,
empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publishers Weekly), her
books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine "Red Hot Reads" twice and have
been translated into ten languages. Winner of the Award of Excellence, The
Washington Post called her "One of the top writers in America" and
she has been featured by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall
Street Journal, and TIME Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University, she has
given keynote speeches at publishing conferences from Copenhagen to Berlin to
San Francisco, including a standing-room-only keynote at Book Expo America in
New York City.
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