From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes a captivating story of love, second chances and new beginnings...
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If she has her way…
Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her…
…He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking.
Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he’s sure he’s never seen the drop-dead gorgeous pet shop owner before, she seems to be mad at him…
Unless he tempers “naughty” with a special kind of nice…
Willa can’t deny that Keane’s changed since high school: he’s less arrogant, for one thing—but he doesn’t even remember her. How can she trust him not to break her heart again? It’s time to throw a coin in the fountain, make a Christmas wish–and let the mistletoe do its work…
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Excerpt-
A guy stood on the other side of the glass, mouth grim,
expression dialed to Tall, Dark and Attitude-ridden. He was something too, all
gorgeous and broody and –hold up. There was something familiar about him,
enough that her feet propelled her forward out of pure curiosity. When it hit
her halfway to the door, she froze, her heart just about skidding to a stop.
“Keane
Winters,” she murmured, lip curling like she’d just eaten a black licorice. She
hated black licorice. But she was looking at the only man on the planet who
could make her feel all puckered up as well as good about her decision to give
up men.
In
fact, if she’d only given them up sooner, say back on the day of the Sadie
Hawkins dance in her freshman year of high school when he’d stood her up, she’d
have saved herself a lot of heartache in the years since.
On the
other side of the door, Keane shoved his mirrored sunglasses to the top of his
head, revealing dark chocolate eyes that she knew could melt when he was amused
or feeling flirtatious, or turn to ice when he was so inclined.
They
were ice now.
Catching
her gaze, he lifted a cat carrier. A bright pink bedazzled carrier.
He had
a cat.
Her
entire being wanted to soften at this knowledge because that meant on some
level at least he had to be a good guy, right?
Luckily
her brain clicked on, remembering everything, every little detail of that long
ago night. Like how she’d had to borrow a dress for the dance from a girl in
her class who’d gleefully lorded it over her, how she’d had to beg her foster
mother to let her go, how she’d stolen a Top Ramen from the locked pantry and
eaten it dry in the bathroom so she wouldn’t have to buy both her dinner and
his, as was custom for the “backward” dance.
“We’re
closed,” she said through the still locked glass door.
Not a
word escaped his lips. He simply raised the cat carrier another inch, like he
was God’s gift.
And he
had been. At least in high school.
About Jill Shalvis:
New York Times and USA Today 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 sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
