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FROM FAKE TO FOREVER
Jennifer Shirk
Released June 6th, 2016
Entangled Bliss
Sandra
Moyer’s preschool is struggling, so when her sister suggests allowing a
super-famous actor to research his latest role there, she reluctantly agrees.
Except the actor turns out to be Ben Capshaw—a playboy who’s never serious,
always joking around, and who knows zero about kids or being a parent. Case in
point: his involvement in the untimely death of the preschool’s class pet…
Ben is enjoying teaching more than
he thought he would, but that doesn’t mean he’s looking for a permanent
position. Sure, he’s ready for more serious movie roles and less goofing off,
but the buttoned-up, beautiful Sandra and her young daughter are more than he
bargained for. Plus, Sandra still won’t trust him—what if it’s all an act,
research for the role? As the lines between make-believe and reality blur, Ben
will have to decide if love is worth casting aside the role of his life for a
new role…that could last a lifetime.
Previously released as The Role of a
Lifetime - (May 2008) and has been enhanced with new material.
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Jennifer Shirk has a bachelor degree
in pharmacy-which has in NO WAY at all helped her with her writing career. But
she likes to point it out, since it shows romantic-at-hearts come in all
shapes, sizes, and mind-numbing educations.
She writes sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Samhain Publishing, Avalon Books/Montlake Romance and now Entangled Publishing. She won third place in the RWA 2006 NYC's Kathryn Hayes Love and Laughter Contest with her first book, THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME. Recently, her novel SUNNY DAYS FOR SAM won the 2013 Golden Quill Published Authors Contest for Best Traditional Romance.
Lately she's been on a serious exercise kick. But don't hold that against her.
She writes sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Samhain Publishing, Avalon Books/Montlake Romance and now Entangled Publishing. She won third place in the RWA 2006 NYC's Kathryn Hayes Love and Laughter Contest with her first book, THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME. Recently, her novel SUNNY DAYS FOR SAM won the 2013 Golden Quill Published Authors Contest for Best Traditional Romance.
Lately she's been on a serious exercise kick. But don't hold that against her.
Excerpt;
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“I’d
love to come,” he answered.
What?
“Hip,
hip, hooray!” Hannah shouted as she galloped around the office.
Sandra
gritted her teeth. Ben wasn’t helping the situation, standing
there, laughing as her daughter jumped her little heart out.
Frustration constricted in her chest, since she was left with no
choice but to be the bad guy. No matter. She was used to it. The way
she always made up excuses for her ex-husband, she had the bad guy
routine down to an art form by now.
“Sweetie,”
she said, taking her daughter by the shoulders, “Big Bens is a very
busy”
“Sandra,
I said I’d love to come.”
She
looked up and saw he was serious. He really didn’t want her getting
him out of lunch on the boardwalk. Huh. That was a new one to her.
But out of habit, she tried one more time. “Aren’t you worried
about being recognized?”
He
flashed her a confident grin, reaching deep into his pocket, whipping
out what looked like a black necklace and twirling it around his
index finger.
“What’s
that?” she asked.
Hannah’s
little hands went for the object, but Ben yanked it out of her reach
just in time. “Nice try.” He looked at Sandra, his grin widening.
“It’s my eye patch.”
“Your
eye patch,” she repeated dully. “Has this role you’re after
changed to a pirates-of-the-Jersey-shore movie?”
“No,” he said with a chuckle.
“Since you had me shave, it’s my new disguise. I stopped at a
convenience store the other day and got accosted by two teenage girls
who recognized me as soon as I reached for a gallon of milk. One of
them even pinched my—”
“I
get it,” Sandra said, holding up a hand.
“I’m
just saying. Fame isn’t easy.”
Poor
baby.
“So now you honestly walk around wearing that thing?”
He
answered her question by putting it on.
Oh,
dear. She hated to admit it, but the eye patch looked good on him.
Why was she even surprised? Of course it did. He was a handsome man,
and now he made one heck of a handsome pirate. To her disgust, her
heart even did a somersault.
That
settled it. Ben coming with them to lunch had bad idea written all
over it. She looked to Hannah, hoping for an ally, or at the very
least, some kind of sign. “What do you think, sweetie? Do you want
to go to lunch with a scary pirate?”
“Pi-rate,
pi-rate, pi-rate,”
her little traitor began to chant, giggling and dancing around some
more.
Not
the sign she’d hoped for.
Sandra
shrugged at Ben. “I guess you can come with us.”
“Arr,
shiver me timbers,” he said in an exaggerated pirate twang. He
winked his uncovered eye at Hannah and hooked his thumbs in his
pants. “This is the nicest your mom’s been to a poor old bloke
like meself in days.”
Sandra
poked a finger in his chest but grinned. “Don’t make me regret
this, or you’ll walk the plank.”
He
grinned back and, with that eye patch, turned kneemeltingly rakish in
under ten seconds flat. “Aye, I won’t be asking you to make me
Roger jolly, if that’s what has you worrying.”
She
laughed. Then he surprised her by taking her hand in his and raising
it up to his lips. “I’ve already given you me word,” he said
huskily, still in his pirate character.
“Friendship
and perhaps a kind word here and there ’tis all I’m after.”
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