The
Gull Motel
by
Amie Denman
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BLURB:
Savvy
Thorpe needs a vacation. Finally finished with college, she heads to
her favorite shabby motel on Florida’s Gulf Coast where her aunt
and uncle always save her room twenty-four. She quickly finds out,
though, that The Gull Motel is not just her home away from home. It’s
hers to manage while her aunt and uncle take an extended trip.
Skip
McComber, The Gull’s former maintenance man, has been working on
Savvy’s nuts and bolts for years. Now the new owner of the bar next
door, his mission is to renovate a pirate bar while being a walking
temptation for the girl he can’t get off his mind.
For
Savvy, keeping her cool running a motel in Florida heat is one thing,
but navigating the steamy waters of a former fling takes a whole
other kind of savvy. In addition to the motel and the man next door,
Savvy stumbles on a plot to swindle land from the residents of
Barefoot Key. Devalued properties tumble like dominoes until Savvy
musters her colorful crew from The Gull Motel to make the pillagers
walk the plank.
Excerpt
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Day four
of what I had planned as a Gulf Coast vacation had me perspiring in
the pool shed and wondering what I should do.
“Need
any help?”
I
whipped around, blood rushing from surprise and something else. Of
course I knew the voice. Skip McComber leaned against the frame of
the open shed door. Shirtless. Wearing low slung jeans and a grin
that registered somewhere between caution and amusement.
He
looked like a man who knew how to run a pool pump. From experience, I
knew he could handle a lot more than that.
“I’m
fine,” I said, trying for cheerful dismissal in my tone. “Just
taking a look around.”
“Taking
stock of your new property.”
“Temporary
property.”
“Since
it’s your place now and all,” he said, disregarding my comment,
“looks like we’ll be seeing a lot of each other.”
A mild
earthquake rolled under my sternum and sent shockwaves from its
epicenter. Maybe I’d have better luck with the space shuttle launch
pad configuration than I would handling Skip.
“Temporary,”
I repeated.
He
nodded, continuing to appraise me with his look. Perhaps appraisal
was too glamorous a word. He was looking at me like a cat who’d
just opened the bird cage and was wondering how much fun he could
have with the bird.
Skip had
been rattling my cage since we were both sixteen. Every time I came
to visit my aunt and uncle for a vacation, an added perk had been the
endorphin boost from their local boy turned maintenance man. A skinny
handsome kid, he had matured every time I came back to the Gull until
he was the full-blown man standing in front of me.
“I
know a lot about fixing things,” he said.
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Amie
Denman lives in a small town in her native Ohio with her husband and
sons. Her two cats and large yellow labrador are kind enough to share
a sunny office where she lets her imagination run wild. Reading books
was her favorite escape as a child, and growing up four houses away
from the community library encouraged her addiction. When she's not
reading or writing, she enjoys walking and running outside. The
helpless victim of a lifetime of curiosity, she's been known to chase
fire trucks on her bicycle just to see what's going on. Amie believes
that everything is fun: especially roller coasters, wedding cake, and
falling in love.
Amie
is the author of five contemporary romance novels:
The
Gull Motel
Blue
Bottle Beach
Her
Lucky Catch
Her
Lucky Prize
Will
Work for Love
He’s
on Her Trail
Please
visit her at www.amiedenman.com
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