Frisk Me
New York’s Finest #1
New York’s Finest #1
By: Lauren Layne
Releasing July 28, 2015
Forever
After a photograph of Luc Moretti saving a tourist
hits social media, he instantly becomes New York's most famous and beloved cop.
When a major network decides to run a special on the "American Hero,"
Luc's boss gives him no choice but to cooperate in the name of good exposure
for the department. Luc doesn't mind the celebrity status-what he does mind is
the gorgeous brunette journalist who's been assigned to follow his every move.
Especially since she also happens to be the same knockout that rejected him
rather publicly the week before.
Ava Sims is a woman who gets what she wants. And
what she wants is to be CBC's lead anchor-but to get there, she'll need to nail
the fluff piece on the playboy cop. Luc Moretti is everything Ava knows to stay
away from: a stubborn charmer with a hero-complex. But the more Ava gets to
know Luc and his oddball family, the more she realizes that beneath the swagger
and the blue uniform is a complex man who makes her heart beat too fast. Soon,
Ava's doing the unthinkable, and falling for the best of New York's finest ...
Luc stifled the smile,
letting his former scowl resettle on his face. If Lopez thought he was being
played, there was no way he’d go for it.
“Hey, so Cap said the hot
reporter would be doing ride-alongs with us. That’ll be cool,” Lopez said.
“Seriously? You hate
ride-alongs,” Luc said.
Lopez held up a finger.
“No, I hate the dippy, I-wanna-be-a-cop-someday type of ride-alongs. Those
stupid kids are always offering advice when they don’t know shit about shit.
But Ms. Sims will be a nice kind of ride-along. Just sitting, observing…looking
fine…”
Luc withheld the snort. If
Lopez thought Ava wouldn’t be offering plenty of unsolicited advice, he had an
unpleasant surprise. He doubted mind your own business was in her DNA, not to
mention it was a blatant contradiction of her job description.
“Hot or not, same rules
apply,” Luc said, just to set the record straight. “She can come on the tame
ride-alongs. That’s it.”
“Shit, and here I was
planning to bring her to a shoot-out,” Lopez mused.
Luc flung the paperclip
back at his partner, nailing him in the forehead. “Hey. So, I need you to be my
wingman.”
Lopez rubbed the red spot
to the right of his temple with a knowing grin. “Ah, so you do want a piece of
Miss Media.”
Yes.
No!
Damn it.
“Let me rephrase,” Luc
said, sitting back in his chair. “I need you to be my reverse wingman. Do
whatever you need to keep that plastic, nosy diva away from me.”
There was a light tap on
his shoulder before a female voice spoke up. “Gonna be hard when this nosy diva
is hell-bent on getting all up in your business.”
Whoops.
“Nice job, Wingman,” Luc
said with a glare at Lopez, whose grin indicated that he’d definitely seen Ava
approaching and had opted not to mention it.
Luc pivoted around in his
chair so he faced Ava. Only he was sitting, and she was standing, which put him
exactly at eye level with Ava’s slim hips.
Generally speaking, Luc
liked a little more curve to his women, but apparently his preferences were
shifting, because he couldn’t help his sex-starved brain from thinking that Ava
Sims’s hips were the perfect size for his hands to wrap around, his fingers
holding her still as he prepared to plunge into her…
The fantasy dissolved into
a million pieces when she opened her sassy mouth again.
“You know…” her voice was
considering, her finger tapping idly against her lips. “I’d always heard that
the whole man-in-uniform thing was supposed to be a turn-on. Guess it’s an
acquired taste.”
Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of
contemporary romance.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in
e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle
to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It
took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her
husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish
ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the
way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in
Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find
her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her
naturally curly hair.
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