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By Lisa
Becker
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: August 1, 2017
Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc.
Charlotte
Windham, a nerdy high school prodigy who tutored classmates to earn money for
college, escapes her geeky past to become a celebrated novelist. During a
chance encounter at a Los Angeles restaurant 15 years after high school, she
reconnects with her secret crush, Garrett Stephens, the popular star athlete
and teen heart breaker. Garrett, still leaving broken hearts in his wake, is
now a successful professional golfer who recently suffered a possible
career-ending shoulder injury. As he and Charlotte spend time together,
developing a friendship based on mutual respect and comfortable companionship,
can Charlotte forgive the past and can Garrett reform his lothario ways for a
chance at love?
I stand but
hesitate when I see Tamika's disapproving look. Fi notices as well. "It's
okay, T. I got this," she says, motioning for me to follow her back. When
we get to her small office, she closes the door and gestures for me to sit on a
red vinyl chair, circa 1972. She stands in front of me, leaning against the
desk, and crosses her arms in front of her chest. "Spill!"
"Where
should I start?"
"At the
beginning." She walks around to her chair behind the desk and pulls out a
yellow legal pad.
For the next
half hour, I go over my encounter with Garrett, from the moment we bumped into
each other and he didn't recognize me, to the embarrassment of being called
'Glasses.'
Fi takes notes
furiously on her pad and grins, nods, and cringes at all the appropriate times.
When I finish, she puts her pen down and asks, "Do you want the 'best
friend experience' or the 'brilliant legal mind experience'?"
I can't help but
laugh. "Are they mutually exclusive?"
"They
are," she says nodding.
"Okay. I
want the best friend experience."
She rushes
around from behind the desk, wraps her arms around me soothingly. "I'm so
sorry, hon. That sounds just awful. Let's go get margaritas tomorrow and drown
our sorrows in tequila and lime wedges."
"Thanks,
Fi. You're the best."
"Anytime,"
she says, rubbing my back. She pulls away and walks around to the back of her
desk. She sits down and puts the legal pad to the side. I can't help but notice
the writing scrawled across it.
"Just for
kicks, what would you have said if I had asked for the 'brilliant legal mind
experience'?"
"You sure
you want to know?" Her lips pull into a grim line. Honestly, I'm not sure
I do want to know, but curiosity gets the better of me.
"Lay it on
me," I say.
"You need
to get laid. Not the kind of bland, missionary style sex you had with Alex. You
need hot heat, sweating up the sheets, crazy animal sex."
I bust out
laughing. "That's your brilliant legal advice. Crazy animal sex?"
"Yes.
That's my brilliant legal advice," she says with complete seriousness.
"Listen, hon, it's been a year since that insecure jerk Keane dumped you.
I have no doubt it's been even longer since you've, well, you know." She
wags her eyebrows up and down. "Before that, you only seriously dated
Travis the cheater and Alex who, let's face it, despite being completely gonzo
for you, was a cold fish and a bore. It's time to stop comparing every man to
this fantasy of Garrett Stephens and just do it with him to get it out of your
system. He asked you out for Saturday night. Go! Enjoy!"
"I don't
compare every man to Garrett," I snap at her.
"Don't
you?" she asks, looking down at me sternly.
"I'm
offended you even suggested that." She looks at me, her sharp eyes boring
into me, like she can read my every thought and knows I'm full of it. I imagine
this is how she bears down on witnesses on the stand. I don't like being on the
receiving end of that look.
"Even if
that's true," I start and she nods her head, "and I'm not conceding
it is." I point my finger at her. "Even if he did mean to ask me out,
there's no way it's a good idea. He's a total player. It would only be one
night of fun and I don't think I could get over that kind of hurt."
"Then you
need to get over it now. Sorry for the tough love, hon, but you need to move
past the fantasy of this man and find someone passionate and amazing who is
deserving to love you for all of the great things you have to offer including
your messed-up childhood and your incredible success today."
Lisa Becker is a
romance writer whose previous novels include Click: An Online Love Story,
Double Click and Right Click. The books, about a young woman's search for love
online in Los Angeles, have been called, “a fast read that will keep you
entertained,” “a fun, quick read for fans of Sex and the City,” and “hard to
put down.” The first in the series was optioned for a major motion picture.
Lisa’s writings
about online dating have been featured in Cupid’s Pulse, GalTime.com, Single
Edition, The Perfect Soulmate, Chick Lit Central and numerous other book blogs
and websites.
As Lisa's
grandmother used to say, "For every chair, there's a rush." Lisa is
now happily married to a man she met online and lives in Manhattan Beach with
him and their two daughters. So, if it happened for her, there’s hope for
anyone!
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