Now Leaving Sugartown
Sugartown #4
By Carmen Jenner
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Cover It! Designs
Out March 2, 2015
Synopsis
Pepper Ryan
grew up the troublesome, spoiled child of a rock god. With her
less-than-stellar parentage, and the bipolar disorder that has plagued her
existence, to say this little firecracker is a handful would be the
understatement of the century.
Sammy Belle
spent more than half his life saving Pepper. He’d been her strength, her
sanity, and the protective brotherly figure she never wanted to have.
They were
never meant to be together.
They gave in
anyway.
And just
when Sammy thought he had everything he wanted, Pepper ran.
Now
twenty-three, Pepper returns to Sugartown, a failed tattoo artist with one too
many screws loose who’s down on her luck, wielding an ice cream van as beaten
up as her heart.
Sugartown’s
most coveted bachelor has always been content with the quiet life he leads
until Pepper, the hellion from his past, returns to test his strength, his
patience, and perhaps even his sanity. But two can play at that game, and
Pepper is about to learn that Sam can give as good as he gets.
Can this
good country boy survive Pepper’s cruel city world, or will the whole thing be
put down to a bout of temporary insanity?
One thing is
for certain:
He’s crazy
about her.
She’s just
crazy.
Warning:
Intended for an 18+ audience. Contains sexual content, oodles of profanity, a
firefighter so hot you may need a very cold shower, and one pink-haired crazy
Harajuku girl.
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#1 Welcome to Sugartown
#2 Enjoy Your Stay
#3 Greetings from Sugartown
Excerpt
Pepper
I stare at Sammy for entirely too long. He
absentmindedly brushes a hand over his chin, an attempt to remove crumbs that
aren’t there. Because why the hell else would I be staring at him like I wanted
to give birth to his giant, Viking children?
“What?”
“You’re a lollipop man and you work in a nursing
home?”
“Yeah.” He mutters around a mouth full of bread.
“You’re like mother fucking Teresa.”
“Don’t start. Jake gives me enough shit over this
stuff.”
Jake lets out a chuckle that has me impaling him with
a single look. “You haven’t even heard the best part yet.”
“There’s more? What, did he create the fucking
universe?”
“Sam’s a volunteer firefighter.”
OH. MY. EXPLODING. OVARIES.
I think I just came a little.
“Was, a volunteer firefighter. Now they pay me for it.
And I don’t think you can claim sainthood from an occupation.”
“Dude. See that? That glazed over look in her eyes
right there? This is why you need to be telling bitches that shit when we go
out to pick up. Look at her, right now she’s imagining sliding down your
fireman’s pole. I’m telling ya, you gotta use that shit, man. It’s fucking
gravy, baby.” He laughs again, and then says, “Or baby gravy, depending on
which way you look at it.”
“Shut the fuck up.” Sammy says.
Something occurs to me just then. Sam is a fireman.
Okay just for a second, put aside the fact that you’re imagining those rock
hard abs all greased up and covered in soot, and ash, and splashed all over the
month of January, and think about this. Sam is a fireman. Fireman S—“Holy
shit!” I exclaim, so loud that every pair of eyes in the room turn to look at
me “You’re fireman Sam! We used to watch that show?” I implore, and then, because
I don’t feel I’ve made enough of an arse of myself I sing the theme song, finishing
with a pointed, “You are the hero next door!”
Jake’s loud guffaw fills the room. “Fireman Sam. Dude
that’s fucking gold!”
Meet Carmen Jenner
Carmen Jenner is a
thirty-something, USA TODAY Best Selling Author, doctor, pilot and CIA
agent.
She's also a compulsive,
flagrant prevaricator who gets to make things up for a living.
While Sugartown may not
technically exist, Carmen grew up in a small Australian town just like it, and
just like her characters, she always longed for something more. They didn't
have an Elijah Cade, though.
If they did, you can be
sure she would have never left.
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