MELT WITH YOU is available now! I'm so excited to share Jake and Naomi's story with you. Check out some of the early reviews:
"They have great chemistry and they are HOT together. I
laughed out loud more than a few times and did I mention it's HOT?!"
-Kara H.
"Treat yourself to this wonderful heartwarming story. I'm so happy to have discovered Jessie Evans and you will be too." -Bette H.
"Pastry chefs and firefighters? Yes, please! I loved Jake and Naomi! Can't wait for the next book :)" -Crystal P.
"I love a hot firefighter and Jake is no exception! I really liked
the dynamic between not only he and Naomi but also the many other
characters...from the bakery and firehouse alike. Can’t wait to see
where this series takes us!" -Amber B.
Keep reading for an exclusive excerpt of MELT WITH YOU...
THE BLURB:
Melt with You
A Summerville Novel
Fire and Icing Book One
Some fires never burn
out…
After ten years as
America’s sweetest celebrity chef, Naomi Whitehouse is enjoying life out of the
spotlight, back in her hometown of Summerville, Georgia. She’s opening a pastry
shop with her sister, housesitting for her snowbird parents, and reconnecting
with her roots. Life is good until she runs into her high school sweetheart,
Jake Hansen, a sexy firefighter who gives her a reception chilly enough to
freeze a forest fire. If Naomi wants her homecoming to remain all cupcakes and
sugar cookies, she’ll have to win Jake over. But how can she earn his
forgiveness when he won’t even speak to her?
When the girl who broke
his heart buys a month of dates at the firefighter’s Hunk-for-a-Month
fundraiser auction, only honor keeps widower Jake Hansen from backing out of
the commitment. He won’t let the firehouse down, even if it means enduring a
torturous month with Naomi Whitehouse. And Jake knows being close to Naomi
again will be torture. Even after all these years, she still gets to him…not
that he intends to let her know it. He’ll be civil, honor his obligation, and
with any luck Naomi will tire of playing small-town pastry chef and Jake will
never see her again.
But as the month
passes, Jake and Naomi discover some fires never burn out. Will the heat
between them be enough to melt away the pain of past mistakes, or is their
second chance doomed from the start?
AN EXCERPT:
As Jake climbed
up the wooden ladder, those memories flashed on his mental screen. Memories of
Naomi in nothing but a bikini top and cut off shorts, swaying back and forth in
the hammock while she read their summer reading assignment aloud and Jake
puttered with his carving knife, whittling a piece in the chess set he was
making her for her birthday. Memories of picnics and evenings spent telling
ghost stories and nights spent in the bed they’d made, making love until eleven
minutes to midnight, leaving themselves two minutes to get dressed, one to get
down the tree to Jake’s truck, and seven to scoot across town to the
Whitehouse’s place by Naomi’s curfew.
They were some
of his best memories, he realized, and some of the most wonderful moments in
his life. For the first time in years, it felt okay to admit that and—when he
reached the top of the ladder, meeting Naomi’s gaze across the refuge from the
world they had made when they were kids—he knew she felt the same way.
Years had
passed, and they had both suffered and celebrated and changed from the people
they’d once been, but in each other’s arms they would always be home.
They crossed the
room and came together without a word, mouths meeting with enough heat to melt
something inside of Jake. As their tongues danced and Naomi’s hands gripped his
shoulders as he eased her to the leaf-strewn floorboards, Jake felt all his
good intentions fading away.
It might be
smarter to wait to be with Naomi, but right now he didn’t care about smart, he
only cared that the woman he was falling in love with all over again was in his
arms, hooking her leg around his waist as he fisted her skirt in his hand,
slowly drawing the silky fabric up to bare her even softer thigh.
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