Love, betrayal, and sweet revenge--
life in Cottonbloom is about to get a whole lot hotter . . .
LEAVE THE NIGHT ON
Cottonbloom #4
Laura Trentham
Releasing Aug 1, 2017
St. Martin's Press
Love,
betrayal, and sweet revenge--life in Cottonbloom is about to get a whole lot
hotter . . .
Sutton Mize is known for
lavishing attention on the customers who flock to her boutique on the wealthy
side of her Mississippi town. So when she finds a lace thong in her fiance's
classic cherry-red Camaro, she knows just who she sold it to: her own best friend.
In an instant, Sutton's whole world goes up in flames. . .
Wyatt Abbott has harbored a crush on Sutton since he was a young kid from the
other side of the tracks. He witnessed Sutton's shocking discovery in the
Camaro at his family-owned garage--and it made him angry. What kind of man
could take lovely, gorgeous Sutton for granted? But then Sutton comes up with
an idea: Why not give her betrothed a taste of his own medicine and pretend
that she's got a lover of her own? Wyatt is more than happy to play the
hot-and-heavy boyfriend. But what begins as a fictional affair soon develops
into something more real, and more passionate, than either Sutton or Wyatt
could have imagined. Could it be that true love has been waiting under the hood
all along?
Jackson grabbed
Wyatt's arm and forced him around. “You like her.”
“Everyone likes her.
She’s nice.”
“I mean, you like
like her. You have since we were kids—I’ve not forgotten how you walked around
with cow eyes around her—and that kiss out front wasn’t pretend. You two nearly
melted the asphalt.”
Jackson’s twin powers
had veered sharply annoying. “I maybe, sort of like her. What’s wrong with
that? She’s single; I’m single.”
“She’s been single
for less than a week. She’s using you.”
“I’m using her too.
In return for me squiring her around, she’s going to get her judge daddy to
talk up the garage at the country club. Send some more projects our way to make
up for the Camaro.”
“That kiss was all a
selfless act for the garage?” Jackson’s sarcasm was not appreciated.
Wyatt had to look
away from his brother’s gaze which prompted a muttered curse from Jackson.
“Do not fall for this
woman, Wyatt. Whether she means to or not, she’s going to rip your heart into
little pieces and feed it to the gators before she goes back to her old life.”
“We’re not getting
serious. In fact, we agreed that after I take her to the gala, it’s over.”
Jackson didn’t look
pleased with the news. He looked worried. “As long as you don’t delude yourself
into thinking it’s anything more than that. She’ll be back with Tarwater or
someone like him by Christmas.”
Because the thought
had already burrowed into his chest, Wyatt’s reaction was knee-jerk and
defensive. “Someone like him?”
“You know,
sophisticated. Worldly. Rich. Well-connected. Well-groomed.”
“Eff you,” Wyatt shot
back, but there was little heat to it.
Jackson was right. “I’ve been told I clean up real nice.”
Jackson’s smile
revealed his dimples. A rare sight since their pop had died last year. “Doesn’t
count if it’s from a female relative over the age of sixty.”
An
award-winning author, Laura Trentham was born and raised in a small town
in Tennessee. Although, she loved English and reading in high school, she was
convinced an English degree equated to starvation. She chose the next most
logical major—Chemical Engineering—and worked in a hard hat and steel toed
boots for several years.
She
writes sexy, small town contemporaries and smoking hot Regency historicals. The
first two books of her Falcon Football series were named Top Picks by RT
Book Reviews magazine. Then He Kissed Me, a Cottonbloom novel, was
named as one of Amazon’s best romances of 2016. When not lost in a cozy
Southern town or Regency England, she's shuttling kids to soccer, helping with
homework, and avoiding the Mt. Everest-sized pile of laundry that is almost as
large as the to-be-read pile of books on her nightstand.
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