He breaks the kiss. “I wanted to kiss you all night.”
STARS IN THEIR EYES
SNEAK PREVIEW
COMING SOON
AUGUST 2014
The fifth book in the New York Times and
USA Today Bestselling Caught Up in Love series
Celebrity photographer-in-training Jess Leighton desperately needs to crash the wedding of the year. Snapping just one pic of the A-list Hollywood couple tying the knot will pay her way through school, but with security tighter than the bride-to-be's corset, she'll need more than her camera and smarts - she'll need help from her biggest rival, William Harrigan. Hot, motorcycle-riding Will is the last person Jess trusts, but he's her only ticket in. Good-looking, charming, and British, he's a triple threat. And he's got that sexy accent to boot. Soon, sparks are flying off-screen and in front of the cameras as they devise a plan to sneak into the ceremony. But when Jess' new celebrity client raises the stakes with a photo shoot of the maid-of-honor, she wonders if she's in over her head. Blackmail, botox, and the worst Breakfast Club remake in the world? It's all in a whirlwind week's work in Hollywood. The audience loves a happy ending, but in a town where everyone's acting and no one's playing on the same team, can Jess find her own ever after in time?
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I pulled over to the curb in front of a one-story office building in West Hollywood, rolling past a scratched-up silver motorcycle that looked like it had seen its share of years. I bumped my scooter up on the sidewalk, jamming it into bike parking, then slid a thick and heavy lock through the tire and the pole and headed to J.P.’s office at the far end of the building. A trip to his office translated into cash, and cash fed those hungry bills on my kitchen table.
I stopped near his door when I heard a voice I didn’t recognize.
But once I instantly responded to. Delicious and British.
“Right. I should be able to get you something, no problem.”
Damn accents. They were my kryptonite. They nearly obliterated all my finely tuned control. And I was the kind of gal who liked being in control. All. The. Time.
“Get me something good and I’ll have more for you,” J.P. said to him.
“A challenge. I’ll take it,” sexy-accent-guy said with a confident tone to my boss.
Please let him be ugly. Let him be a hideous troll.
I walked in as he stood up.
Damn. He wasn’t ugly from behind. He had a fantastic ass, and the perfect kind of jeans to show it off. Nice back too, firm shoulders, and hair that clearly needed to be touched.
I took a deep breath to steel myself. I prayed that he had bad teeth. Crooked, yellow, snaggly teeth that would make me run for cover.
But when he turned around I was greeted by one of my favorite, and most frustrating, sights on the planet – that of a hot guy about my age – twenty-one. He wore jeans that hung nice and low on the hips, scuffed-up black boots, a blue tee-shirt that showed off toned arms, and a pair of gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses hanging on the neck of his tee-shirt. He had dark hair, a whole mess of it, and eyes like a very angry sky.
Eyes that caught me surveying him from top to bottom.
He tipped his forehead to me. “Hey.” Then gave me a quick once over, and a small grin. “I’m William,” he offered in the sexiest accent I’d ever heard.
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