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Blurb:
Reluctantly on her way to a blind date, second grade teacher Maureen detours into her mechanic's garage because her brakes are squeaking. Her regular mechanic isn't there but his very intriguing brother Michael is. Michael tells her that he can't let her drive home with her brakes in that condition and offers to take her out to dinner in his 1972 Plymouth Satellite. Maureen can't believe how instantly and powerfully she's attracted to this grease monkey and neither can any of her friends, but since he's only going to be in town for a week, she doesn't want to waste an instant.
Except that grease monkey, is no grease monkey. He's Bear D'Amato, rock'n'roll drummer and in a week he's headed back to get ready for a world tour with his band, Touchstone. When he first meets Maureen, he just wants to go out with her a few times like a normal guy, but as the relationship deepens, he realizes he wants more than just a couple of dates. He wants a lifetime.
Maureen is shocked by his revelation, but she realizes she wants a lifetime too.
Now all they have to do is convince the rest of the world.
Excerpt:
“Did you
have sex with that girl?”
Michael
glanced over his shoulder and frowned. “Maybe. I think so.”
Maureen
tried to draw a deep breath, but it caught on the steel bands around her lungs.
She didn't expect him to have been a saint, but to not remember? Another steel
band tightened around her head and the room went a little flat and sideways.
“Listen
baby, those girls don't mean anything. When you're out on the road they're everywhere.
It's like exercise.” He flushed.
“You weren't
jogging with her.”
“No.”
Michael slouched.
“And you're
going to be out on the road soon.” Maureen folded her arms to keep her body
from flying apart. How had she gotten mixed up in this?
“Yeah, but it's
different now. Why go out for hamburger when I've got steak at home?” He
stroked her cheek.
“What if you
get hungry while you're out?”
“Baby, I'm
not going to.” He put his hands on her neck and leaned his forehead against
hers. Her view shrank to just him. Just his eyes. “I love you, Maureen. Ever
since I met you, everything's been different. You're all I need.”
“What if the
hamburger is particularly insistent?” Cyndy looked like the type to take no as
a challenge. And there were thousands of girls like her. Maureen bet there were
a dozen in the building right now. None of them would think twice about having
sex with him. They might not even think of it as cheating. He might not think of it as cheating. “If I'm going to
marry you, I need to know you're going to be faithful.”
“I promise
you I will give new meaning to the word faithful.”
“That's what
I'm afraid of.” Maureen bit her lip. If he cheated on her all of these people
were going to know. They would be laughing about how naïve she'd been,
believing he wouldn't be with another woman when so many willing ones were
available.
All she
could see was his eyes and eyes never lie.
“You have
nothing to fear. I am forever yours. Faithfully.”
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Bio:
Christa Maurice spends a lot of time lost in imagination.
When not writing, she loves to travel and has spent several years living
overseas. She spent four years living in Abu Dhabi where the temperature was
always hot, the sunrise and sunset were pretty stable year ‘round and she could
go weeks without speaking to a man who wasn’t selling her groceries. You know
that happens to a woman living in what amounts to a harem situation? She spends
a lot of time talking about shoes and thinking about men. Which brings us right
back to being lost in imagination…
