by Amy Knupp
“You got him good, Selena,” Melanie said. “I love it!”
Selena took Christian inside. Evan was already down a level, checking out the staterooms and howling his approval every few seconds. She went down to soak in his excitement.
“You like it?” she asked.
“Do I like it?” He threw his arms around her and the baby and spun around awkwardly in the small space. “You’re never going to get me off this thing! Is it really ours?”
“One hundred percent. Made possible by the sale of my mother’s house. She never got to buy her own boat or plane, but I know she’d love nothing more than to spoil you like this.”
“It’s perfect.”
“I know it’s been your dream for a long time.”
“Darlin’, you’ve already made my dreams come true. Twice before today.” He took Christian from her and raised the baby above his head, then lowered him into a hug. “Thank you. It’s going to take me the next hundred years to repay the favor.”
Selena shook her head. “Nope. You already have.”
He pulled her close with his available arm and kissed her long and slow.
She smiled against his lips and said, “We’re even.”
Author’s Note
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Heat of the Night is a stand-alone story in the Island Fire series, which includes:
Playing with Fire
Heat of the Night
Fully Involved (October 2017)
Impulse (short story)
Slow Burn (short story)
Fire Within (novella)
You might also enjoy the Hale Street series, which includes:
Sweet Spot
Soft Spot (novella)
One and Only
Last First Kiss (novella)
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Fully Involved
Clay Marlow wondered for the hundredth time this week if he’d screwed up with his three-year-old daughter yet again. Wondered if she had, indeed, stopped crying as soon as he was out of sight, as his sister had sworn she would. Walking away from those tear-filled brown eyes nearly leveled him every single time. Every decision he made concerning his little girl made him doubt himself more.
He pulled into the small lot next to the Shell Shack, the beach bar owned by his friends Derek and Macey. Whipped too fast into the parking space next to Derek’s red truck with his own extended-cab pickup.
And heard the crash of his front bumper on the motorcycle a split second before he saw it.
Dammit. He needed more sleep. And a parenting manual.
He jumped out of the truck, adrenaline pumping, relieved there was no one in sight, which meant no one had been on the parked bike.
Ah, shit. He knew that bike. Knew exactly who it belonged to. Andie Tyler, who, like him, was an attendant in Derek and Macey’s upcoming wedding.
He didn’t know Andie well, but he got the impression she wasn’t particularly understanding or easy to get along with. Especially when someone crashed into her Harley-Davidson.
He took the walkway to the nearest bar entrance. Macey had invited the four wedding attendants to a happy-hour get-together. All because Andie was to arrive in town today.
At the open doorway, he stopped. His eyes were drawn to Andie like a hummingbird to red. She sat on the outside of the small group, her stool a couple of feet from Derek’s. She had a half smile on her face, while the others — Selena and her husband, Evan, were on Derek’s other side and Macey was behind the bar — laughed without restraint at something Evan had said.
In spite of her rough edges, she was pretty, someone who’d caught his attention last summer when she’d spent a couple of months on San Amaro Island working behind the bar with Derek.
Pretty or not, she was going to be one pissed biker chick.
Enough stalling. Might as well get this over with. He forced himself to join the group, stepping between Andie and Derek.
Fully Involved will be available in October 2017.
About the Author
Amy Knupp is an author of contemporary romance, a freelance copy editor for Blue Otter Editing, and a freelance technical writer. She loves words and grammar and meaty, engrossing stories with complex characters.
Amy lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two teenage sons, four cats, and two box turtles. She graduated from the University of Kansas with degrees in French and journalism. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, breaking up cat fights, watching college hoops, and annoying her family by correcting their grammar.
Books by Amy Knupp
Island Fire series:
Playing with Fire
Heat of the Night
Fully Involved (October 2017)
Impulse (short story)
Slow Burn (short story)
Fire Within (novella)
Hale Street series:
Sweet Spot
Soft Spot (novella)
One and Only
Last First Kiss (novella)
To learn more about Amy’s books, click here.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Heat of the Night © 2017 by Amy Knupp
Originally published in 2010 as A Little Consequence
Cover Design © Jaycee DeLorenzo