Chicks Dig the Accent
by Roxanne D. Howard
Genre: NA Romance, Modern Day Fairytale
Molly
Ivers has always known she’d marry a foreign man with a delicious
accent. Six months ago, in a night of unbridled passion, Molly gave
her virginity to her friend and sexy-as-can-be neighbor, rocker Evan
Castle. Unfortunately, thanks to his swarm of constant groupies,
things didn’t work out, but they remained friends. Now, after
having just broken up with her boring, run-of-the-mill right-wing
boyfriend, Sean, she’s on the verge of finishing her graduate
degree and moving to Paris. She is desperate to shake things up--and
find that sexy foreign man.
She’s
had a crush on Nicholas Sullivan, her British professor, for as long
as she can remember. So when opportunity comes knocking to spice up
her appearance in the form of a French life coach, she hires Jean Luc
Dubois to help her let her hair down and become more Parisian and hip
to reflect the person she is within. Thanks to Jean Luc’s magic,
she starts to catch her hunky English prof’s eye, but the more time
she spends with Evan, the more she begins to realize that her Prince
Charming might just be the one she’s known all along.
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Excerpt:
“Thanks, guys.” Evan’s smooth voice came over
the mic while the guitar music died. “We’re gonna take a quick break, but we’ll
be back in ten, so stick around.” He hopped off the low stage to scattered
applause and whistles. Molly schooled the smirk on her face as he sidled past
the flirting girls and made his way toward their table.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the Wonder
Twins, TWT, Inc.”
He slid into the empty space beside Molly in
the booth. She exchanged an amused look with Nell. He’d christened them with
the moniker upon moving in. They were never Nell and Molly, but Fischer and
Ivers, TWT. Their eye color, skin, and facial features couldn’t be more
different, but they were both the same height, petite-figured, and had wide,
generous mouths and lots of hair.
“So, where’s the right-wing Republican
boyfriend tonight?” he asked.
He stretched his arm over the back of Molly’s
seat in a casual way. His forefinger grazed the edge of her earlobe, and a
pleasant shiver ran through her.
“I thought you two were attached at the hip.”
Molly went silent and looked at her drink.
Great, here it came.
“They broke up,” Nell chipped in.
Molly gave her a look of mock gratitude from
across the table as Evan turned to her in surprise. His sexy hazel eyes
searched hers. She waited for one of his classic Evan Castle comments, but the
solemnity in his expression told her he wouldn’t give any.
He whistled low. “Sorry, Ivers, that sucks.
You guys were together for a while.”
She hid her cringe as she took another sip of
her drink. “Yeah…” Gulp, gulp, uncomfortable silence.
The drummer in Evan’s band called over to him,
and Evan told him he’d be right there. He rapped his knuckles on the table and
flashed them both a flirty smile.
“Well, Ivers,” he said as he slid out of the
booth. “You’ll have a lot of attention to deal with, now that you’re back in
the jungle with the rest of us primates. Do me a favor, eh, and don’t forget to
put a bag over your head when you go out from now on, or you’ll have every guy
in the room at your feet and beating down your door. Then I’ll never be able to
talk to you.” He gave her a cheeky wink and walked off.
Molly turned crimson. Nell mouthed, Wow! as she put her palm over heart, and her jaw dropped
open. They watched him walk off.
“What a compliment and a half! I did wonder
why you two never got together. He always looks at you like he’s about to walk
you against a wall and have at you.”
“What? No, he looks at all the girls like
that. He’s just sweet and being a total flirt.” Molly waved it off, but her
heartbeat accelerated as she remembered when he had, indeed, taken her against
a wall their third time the night they’d spent together.
Roxanne D. Howard is a
U.S. Army veteran who has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and
English. She loves to read poetry, classical literature, and Stephen
King. Also, she is an avid Star Wars fan, musical theater nut, and
marine biology geek. Roxanne resides in the western U.S., and when
she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband and
children. Roxanne loves to hear from her readers, and encourages you
to contact her via her website and social media.
4 comments:
The kind of cover I look for my oldest sister when I get her books. She is all into romance books. Other sister is into mysteries.
I love the new cover.
Love the cover!
Congrats on the book. Loved the cover, title and excerpt.
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