Title: Surprise, Baby!
Standalone Companion Novel to All About the D
Standalone Companion Novel to All About the D
Authors: Lex Martin & Leslie McAdam
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Adult Contemporary
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Blurb
There’s a fine line between lust and hate.
I don’t care that Drew Merritt spent the last year
transforming himself from grungy slob to sexy playboy. With messy, dirty blond
hair and gorgeous eyes, his looks aren’t the problem.
His mouth is.
And the stupid things that come out of it.
But after an emergency strands us together, and he does his
damnedest to take care of me…
Let’s just say there’s one thing we don’t clash on.
And it doesn’t involve talking.
I’ve despised Drew since I met him years ago. One weekend
can’t change us that much, can it?
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.
Except he left me a little keepsake.
And in nine months, I’ll have a surprise for Portland’s most
notorious player.
Caroline's Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Freakin’ loved this story!
"I'd need a whole room of shrinks to untangle my feelings for this girl."
Drew "Demerit" Merritt has cleaned up his act, but his long-standing reputation as a hardcore party boy follows him like a bad smell. Even his nemesis, Kendall Greer, still thinks he's a flaky manwhore, in spite of his hot new physique. When he's tasked with driving her to their mutual friends' cabin in the mountains, they never expected to be snowed in and stranded together.
"Something about his close proximity makes me feel like a compass that's rotating frenetically in a magnetic field."
Kendall can't stand Drew ever since their unfortunate first meeting. He takes every opportunity to rile her up. However, when they are stranded and are suddenly forced to spend time completely alone together, they start to look at each other with different eyes, and soon they are giving in to the underlying attraction that's always existed, alongside the enmity, between them.
"For years, she's been under my skin, and since we've drawn a truce, I can't get her out of my head. Nor do I want to."
When we first met Drew in the previous novel, he was such an annoying character! LOL. He's definitely turned over a new leaf, even though he's still the cheeky chap that he always was before. I loved the change in their relationship and how much they shared when they were stranded. Unfortunately, they become completely mired in misunderstanding and doubt. Kendall is actually pretty vulnerable under her tough-girl, ball-buster persona, and Drew is actually a real sweetheart with a heart of gold.
This was a delightful story that was sexy, angsty and, at times, pretty tender. Loved it!
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Lex Martin
Lex writes contemporary romance, the sexy kind with lotsa
angst, a whole lotta kissing, and the hot happily ever afters. When she's not
writing, she lives a parallel life as an English teacher.
She loves printing black and white photos, listening to
music on vinyl, and getting lost in a great book. Bitten by wanderlust,
she's lived all over the country but
currently resides in the City of Angels with her husband and twin daughters.
Lex is represented by Kimberly Brower of Brower Literary
& Management.
Leslie McAdam
Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance, Little
Dude, and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small
orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two small
children. Leslie always encourages her kids to be themselves - even if it means
letting her daughter wear leopard print from head to toe. An avid reader from a
young age, she will always trade watching TV for reading a book, unless it's
Top Gear. Or football. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing
about the men you fantasize about. She's unapologetically sarcastic and
notoriously terrible at comma placement.
Always up for a laugh, Leslie tries to see humor in all
things. When she's not in the writing cave you'll find her fangirling over
Beck, camping with her family, or mixing up oil paints to depict her love of
outdoors on canvas.
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