Kari Lemor
Romance Author
Kayla: Through Thick & Thin
Prescott Hill book 2
All of the Prescott Hill books are stand alones and may be read in any order
Themes: boss/employee, forced proximity, he falls first, reformed playboy
Sometimes the perfect match is closer than you think.
Kayla Barrios has always been content being single, until her three best friends find true love and announce their new pregnancies. She suddenly feels like she’s been left behind. The last thing she needs is Chadwick Beaumont.
Chadwick’s reputation as a serial dater works against him. The truth is he’s been searching for the right woman all along. When he meets Kayla at his cousin's wedding, he feels a connection that he can’t ignore. Is she his soul mate?
When he buys the farm-to-table restaurant Kayla manages in rural Virginia, she sees it as another reason to keep him at arm's length. Yet the closer they work together, the harder it becomes to ignore the man behind the rumors. His generosity, patience, and kindness chip away at the walls she's built around her heart. But will it be enough to prove true love is worth the risk?
Warnings: sweet and chaste, no language, no steam at all
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Excerpt:
Since he’d been here, she’d enjoyed work a whole lot more. It wasn’t something she wanted to tell him, though. He’d get a big head. “Not all bad.”
That charming smile crossed his face, and he tapped the counter. “Want help with the closing? Then we can play a game of Scrabble. I’ll even let you win.”
She blew out a raspberry. “Please, like you’d ever have a chance at winning against me.”
“You think you’re so good, huh? I challenge you to a game. Unless you’re afraid.”
Them were fightin’ words. Planting her hands on her hips, she stared him down. “You use all your fancy words like obtuse and atrocious and think you’re hot stuff. Maybe they sound elegant, but they’re only eight and eleven points respectively. Hardly big points.”
His lips pinched like he was trying not to smile. “I love using words that are aesthetically pleasing and have a rich etymology. Ones that are rare and precise.”
“That’s ridiculous. The whole goal of the game is to get the most points so you can win. You do that by finding words with higher score letters, fitting them in double and triple letter or word locations, and blocking words in order to build on them.”
“True,” he admitted. “It’s still great when you find the perfect word to play.”
She closed the register and placed the receipts in the folder under the counter. “I see your challenge, but it’ll have to be another night. You can play your aesthetically pleasing words and lord it over my simple ones, yet I’ll still leave you in the dust. Sitting there playing your posh, resplendent, opulent, and splendiferous words.”
Let him choke on those points.
