Top 5 Reasons Things to Love About
Ben
1. He wears a tool belt.
2. He knows how to fix anything.
3. He’s sex on a stick.
4. He’s good with kids.
5. He has no idea he’s all these
things.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME by Jill
Shalvis (February 18, 2014; Grand Central
Publishing Mass Market; $6.00)
SOMETIMES WRONG IS OH-SO-RIGHT
After a wrenching loss, Ben
McDaniel tried to escape his grief by working in dangerous, war-torn places
like Africa and the Middle East. Now he's back in his hometown and face-to-face
with Aubrey Wellington, the hot-as-hell woman who is trouble with a capital T.
Family and friends insist she's not the one to ease his pain, but Aubrey sparks
an intense desire that gives Ben hope for the future.
Determined to right the wrongs of
her past, Aubrey is working hard to make amends. But by far, the toughest
challenge to her plan is sexy, brooding Ben - even though he has absolutely no
idea what she's done . . .
Can this unlikely couple defy the
odds and win over the little town of Lucky Harbor?
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the
Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in
her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill's bestselling,
award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website for a
complete book list and daily blog detailing her
city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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Excerpt from Once in a Lifetime:
Aubrey got a look at the man she’d inadvertently drenched and stopped
breathing. Oh, God. Had she really thought her day couldn’t get any worse? Why
would she tempt fate by even thinking that? Because of course things had gotten
worse. They always did.
Ben McDaniel slowly stood up from his barstool, dripping vodka from his
hair, eyelashes, nose… He was six feet plus of hard muscles and brute strength
on a body that didn’t carry a single extra ounce of fat on him. For the past
five years, he’d been in and out of a variety of Third World countries
designing and building water systems with the Army Corp of Engineers. His last
venture had been for the Department of Defense in Iraq, which Aubrey only knew
because Lucky Harbor’s Facebook page was good as gospel.
He swiped his face with his arm, deceptively chill and laid-back.
In truth, he was about as badass as they came.
Aubrey should know, she’d seen him in action. But she managed to meet his
gaze. Cool, casual even. One had to be with Ben, the man could spot a weakness
a mile away. “I’m sorry,” she said.
“Are you?”
She felt herself flush. He’d always seemed to see right through her. And she
was pretty sure he’d never cared for her. He had good reason for that, she
reminded herself. He just didn’t know the half of it. “Yes, I am sorry,” she
said. Her heart was pounding so loudly she was surprised she could hear herself
speak. “Are you okay?”
He ran his fingers through a sexy disorder of sun-streaked brown hair. His
eyes were the same color, light milk chocolate marbled with gold caramel. It
was hard to make such a warm-colored gaze seem hard, but Ben managed it with no
effort at all. “Need to work on your aim,” he said.
