Kiss and Confess
Love
Unscripted #1
By Jane Lynne Daniels
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Re-release
Date: June 2, 2016
Synopsis
As a new addition
to the TV reality show "Make Me a Match," Charley Stephens is about
to meet the love of her life—offscreen.
UNREAL
Saying Charley
Stephens has had bad luck with men would be an understatement, but as a new
contestant on “Make Me a Match,” things are looking up. The reality show has
personality experts and a special computer matching program, so Mr. Right must be
waiting on sound stage number six. Except, if there were a script it’d be out
the window. Standing in front of her is Luke Dean, the very man who broke her
heart.
Doing the wrong
thing for the right reason cost TV producer Luke Dean the love of his life.
Now, here she is again, a contestant on his new show. Yet, three couples
competing for big prize money, trying to best each other at challenges ranging
from an L.A. treasure hunt to sidewalk singing…nothing could be as dramatic as
the choice in front of him. He must decide to keep his distance from
Charley or go for broke—literally. If he jeopardizes the show, he’ll lose his
career. If he wins her love, it’d be better even than a Hollywood happy ending.
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Excerpt
Charley’s nervous
energy shimmied from her escalating heartbeat to her pedicured toes. Los
Angeles. She couldn’t believe she was actually here. Chosen to be a contestant
on a show that promised to find her perfect match.
She’d already done
a pretty great job of finding the imperfect and even disastrous matches. Things
could only go up from here.
People rushed by
moving to and from the gates as she followed the signs to baggage claim. An
airline employee steering a wheelchair nearly clipped her foot and then glared
at Charley as if it were her fault. She gave him an apologetic smile, her
Disney princess mood firmly in place. If she’d had a wand, she would have
smacked him with sparkles.
She stepped off the
escalator, unsure which way to turn. Everyone else seemed to know, so she
joined a pack moving at a steady speed. She spotted a monitor on a wall and on
her way to it, stopped to take in the sunshine and blue skies streaming through
glass doors. People from Seattle didn’t take that kind of weather lightly,
particularly in April.
The monitor
displayed her flight and its assigned carousel. She checked the numbers and
headed toward her carousel, which had already begun its slow turn. After only a
couple of minutes, she saw her pink bag bumping and thumping its way from the conveyer
belt to the metal slats to begin its circular journey.
“Excuse me,” she
said as she made her way through other impatient travelers. “Sorry. Just have
to get my bag. Thank you.” She thrust her arm out and pulled the bag off with
an unintended oof. She set it on the floor and flexed her fingers. As usual,
she’d over packed to accommodate for changing weather and all other possible
scenarios. Charley was nothing if not a planner.
She was busy trying
to coax the bag’s handle to cooperate when she heard a quiet “Hi, Charley”
close to her ear. Surprised, she looked up and locked eyes with a tall, lean
man. The man whose face was etched in her heart’s memory.
“Luke,” she
breathed. She’d have recognized him anywhere.
He held her gaze
and nodded. “Been a long time.”
Charley took a
shaky step back. His voice still had the huskiness that caused goose bumps to
tango up her arms while the rest of her body readied itself for another kind of
tango. And, wow. His eyes still held the same burning intensity that stole her
breath.
“Oh my God.”
Her stomach
clenched tight and her knees sagged at the sight of his adorably crooked nose
and the dark curly hair he still hadn’t bothered to tame. She hadn’t thought
she’d see him again. And now that he stood before her, she could barely think,
let alone talk. “How—how are you?” she managed.
“Good. And you?”
He was calm. She
was stuck in a spin cycle of emotion and he was calm. She shook her head and
dizziness overtook her. She clutched at her bag for support. Luke. Here. He
caught her arm, holding her steady.
“I’m good too,” she
lied.
Meet
the Author
Jane Lynne Daniels
grew up a city girl, only to meet the love of her life at the annual Volunteer
Fireman's Ball in tiny Grass Valley, Oregon. A few years ago, she and her
husband, and their dogs, moved from the Pacific Northwest to Ohio, where they
miss the rain and ocean, but love the change in seasons. Jane is doing her best
to adopt a Midwest accent, but since people look at her funny when she tries,
it probably isn’t working.
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