From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes a captivating story of love, second chances and new beginnings...
We are thrilled to bring you this excerpt from Jill Shalvis's upcoming release, THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE! This second standalone novel in The Heartbreaker Bay Series is releasing September 27th! Don't miss the excerpt below, and make sure to preorder your copy today!
About THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE:
If she has her way…
Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her…
…He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking.
Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he’s sure he’s never seen the drop-dead gorgeous pet shop owner before, she seems to be mad at him…
Unless he tempers “naughty” with a special kind of nice…
Willa can’t deny that Keane’s changed since high school: he’s less arrogant, for one thing—but he doesn’t even remember her. How can she trust him not to break her heart again? It’s time to throw a coin in the fountain, make a Christmas wish–and let the mistletoe do its work…
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EXCERPT:
She watched Keane take in the two
newest Christmas trees, one in front of O’Riley’s Pub, the other in front of
Reclaimed Woods, both decorated in simple red and gold balls. The only sound
around them was the soft trickle of the water flowing from the fountain and
some lovelorn crickets mourning the dawn’s lack of warmth.
“Legend
states that if you make a wish with a true heart, true love will find you,” she
said.
He met
her gaze. “Legend also states that if you put your tooth under your pillow the
Tooth Fairy will leave you cash.”
She
slowed, as always the fountain calling to her to make a wish. Keane slowed too,
looking at her with a question.
She
searched her pockets for change, but could only come up with a dog treat.
“Damn.” It was the swear jar’s fault, all her spare change always ended up in
there.
“What?”
“I wanted
to make a wish,” she said.
A small
smile crossed his face. “You want to make a wish? You’ve lived here for how
long and you’ve never made one?”
“Oh, I
have.” She paused. “I like to.”
This
garnered her a raised brow. “How many times have you wished?”
She bit
her lower lip.
“More
than once?”
Well,
crap. How had they gotten on this subject? “Um…”
“More
than…five?”
“Gee,
would you look at the time?” she asked and tried to go but he caught her and
brought her back around, his smile now a broad grin.
“Fine,”
she said. “If you must know, I toss a coin in every time I walk by.”
He lost
the battle with his laughter and she stared at him. Seriously, he had the best
laugh. “It worked for Pru, I’ll have you know,” she told him. “She wished for
true love to find Finn, and then he fell in love with her.”
And Willa
had been wishing ever since, even knowing how ridiculous and silly it was.
“So…you’ve
been wishing for true love for who exactly?” he asked.
She
stared at him in dismay. How had she not thought this through? “Me,” she
admitted, slapping her pockets because surely she had even a penny. “But I
intend to fix that right now. I’ll just wish for love for someone else.”
“Who?” he
asked warily.
She narrowed her eyes at his fear.
“You. Got any change?”
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
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