ANY FIN FOR LOVE
by Petie McCarty
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
She could almost hear the fish laughing at her . . .
Cody
Ryan’s father never missed fishing the annual Loon Lake tournament until his
unexpected passing. So this year, Cody packs up her how-to fishing videos and
her dad’s old johnboat and gives him one final entry.
Gage
Connor needs some R&R away from his coast guard deployment catching drug
smugglers along the Louisiana coast, so he borrows a bass boat from his buddy
and heads to Loon, Alabama to do some fishing.
When
Gage and Cody meet at Loon Lake, their attraction is immediate and
intense—until the two discover there is only one boat slip left on the lake and
they both need it, and there’s only one vacant hotel room left in Loon and they
both want it. Thus, their competition begins. Both vow to keep their distance
from the other to fight the temptation, but fate has other plans. The
tournament pairing party picks the two-man teams and chooses Gage as Cody’s
partner.
For
two days.
Alone
on a boat.
Working
as a team.
Good
things come to those who bait . . .
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Excerpt One:
Feeling the hotel room being yanked out from underneath her,
Cody lost her grip on her temper. “I don’t care. I arrived here first.” She
wheeled on Velma. “Tell him.”
Velma had a hard time meeting the man’s glittering green
eyes, and Cody feared the worst. “Velma, you have to go with the first person
who arrived here, and that was me.”
Velma visibly wavered, and her gaze bounced between Cody,
Mr. Never-Had-Any-Patience, and her twin, who looked ready to burst into tears.
“It’s not your fault, Sister.” She patted Delma’s hand. “You
didn’t know we were upstairs. I’ll handle this.”
Velma faced her two potential guests and announced, “We’ll
flip for it.”
Delma immediately beamed.
“What?” Cody cried.
“Fine by me,” the stranger snapped and crossed his arms on
his oversized and quite muscular pecs. Not that Cody was staring.
Velma reached into her apron pocket and drew out a silver
dollar. She smiled at Cody. “Since you were here first, you can call it, and
you can have heads if you want. I always liked heads in a coin toss, and I
always got lucky calling heads.” Her eyes twinkled at Cody.
“Fine. Heads it is,” Cody said.
The coin flipped high in the air. Velma deftly caught it
with her right hand and smacked the coin on top of her left. “Heads it is,” she
proclaimed.
Cody blew out a sigh of relief.
“Hey, wait a minute,” the stranger complained.
“See for yourself.” Velma angled her hand for him to snatch
a glimpse and then chucked the coin back into her pocket.
Cody stared him right in the eye. “I win.”
He eased closer—almost nose to nose—and she reconsidered her
idea to gloat. His emerald eyes darkened, turned almost black, and locked onto
hers. She could hear and feel each breath he took, because she held hers.
Waiting.
“Share it with me.”
His gaze never wavered. She could feel it, almost like a
caress.
“I promise I won’t touch you . . . if you don’t want me to.”
The latter implied he wanted exactly the opposite.
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Review: “I hope the gentlemen don’t mind a woman competing this year.” That’s what was running through Cody’s mind as she stood in the middle of a fishing tournament.
The character asked herself: how bad could this be? Well, it sure sounded like she really wasn’t that into fishing. So why was she doing it then? To please her dad.
The narrative was nice and easy, but it was rather long and only mildly amusing. Story wasn’t really that easy to get into. First, the character’s motive for getting into this tournament wasn’t that believable to me. Second, we run into this tangled yarn of mystery and confusion as you read on. For me, it was just too much to unravel. Like I said, the read was pretty decent. The best thing about Cody was her “girl power” attitude and her unrelenting desire to not give up. This book pretty much has a little bit of everything: drama, mystery, and romance.
A fairly nice read altogether, but, of course, it could be better.
Rating:
3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—"The Most Magical Place on Earth"—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.
Petie shares
her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband
and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No
Angels for Christmas.
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