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291 pages, Paperback
First published August 11, 2015
The woman in the photo was seductive, inviting, radiant.
Me.
As I stared at the image in wonder, Joe wrapped his arms around me from behind and whispered in my ear, "Every time I look at you…this is what I see."
“What do you like to read?”
I glanced at the pile of candy-colored novels on the nightstand and replied with self-conscious amusement. “Love stories. The kind with happy endings.”
“Do you ever get tired of knowing how the book’s going to end?”
“No, that’s the best part. Happily-ever-afters are hard to come by in real life, even in the wedding business. But at least I can count on one in a book.”
“If it’s real,” Joe said quietly, “it doesn’t go away.”
“How do you know?”
“Because that’s what real is.”
“I’m the guy who’s right for you. I may not be what you’re looking for, but I’m what you want. You’ve been alone long enough, honey. It’s time for you to wake up with a man in your bed. Time for the kind of sex that lays you out, owns you, leaves you too shaky to pour your morning coffee.”
He had a lazy, easy way of talking, as if every word had been simmered for hours over a low flame.
"If it's real," Joe said quietly, "it doesn't go away."
"How do you know?"
"Because that's what real is."
"Happily ever afters are hard to come by in real life, even in the wedding business. But al least I can count on one in a book."
"I've seen some great marriages in real life."
"They don't stay that way, though. Every marriage starts as a happy ending, and then it turns into a marriage."
The stubble on his face looked heavy enough to sand paint off a car. He was big-boned and lean, the muscles of his arms and chest as defined as cut stone beneath a worn layer of his T-shirt. A disreputable man, maybe a little dangerous.
The kind of man who made you forget to breathe.
"If we get a dog, I want one that can go running with me.”
“You don’t run.”
“Because I don’t have a dog.”
“Now we do.”
“I can’t run with a Chihuahua! She would drop dead after a half mile.”
“So would you. I’ve seen you run.”
When Houston-based wedding planner Avery Crosslin meets wedding guest Joe Travis, sparks fly. But Avery doesn't really want a serious relationship with a super-rich guy when she's happy living with her sister and running her own successful business -- or does she?I don't have a ton to say about this book. It was a perfectly enjoyable, perfectly forgettable confection of a romance. I enjoyed the side plots -- there was enough going on in Avery's world beyond Joe to keep the book interesting -- and found the characters engaging. I was definitely rooting for Avery and Joe as a pair (not so much for Avery's sister Sofia and her love interest, though).