Roommating
Preston’s Mill #1
Noelle Adams & Samantha Chase
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 7,
2016
Forget
all those other roommate romances you might have read.
Heather and Chris don't hate each other...very much. And they don't have sex all the time...at least not at first. Chris doesn't go around shirtless, flexing his muscles and driving Heather wild...too often. And he doesn't get jealous and possessive every time she goes out with another man...well, maybe occasionally.
But they definitely don't fall in love...right away.
When Heather comes back to her hometown, she plans to take over her father's historic restoration business and move into a beautiful converted apartment in Preston's Mill. Then she finds out she'll have to partner up with the one man she can never forgive. Chris Dole, who abandoned her father and betrayed her trust three years ago.
It gets even worse. They don't just have to work together. They have to become roommates for six months to prove they can get along. That means Heather will have to play nice with Chris and put up with his obnoxiousness, his drop-dead sexiness, and his ugly recliner named Flo.
She'll do what she has to do out of loyalty to her father, but she isn't going to like it.
At least not much.
Heather and Chris don't hate each other...very much. And they don't have sex all the time...at least not at first. Chris doesn't go around shirtless, flexing his muscles and driving Heather wild...too often. And he doesn't get jealous and possessive every time she goes out with another man...well, maybe occasionally.
But they definitely don't fall in love...right away.
When Heather comes back to her hometown, she plans to take over her father's historic restoration business and move into a beautiful converted apartment in Preston's Mill. Then she finds out she'll have to partner up with the one man she can never forgive. Chris Dole, who abandoned her father and betrayed her trust three years ago.
It gets even worse. They don't just have to work together. They have to become roommates for six months to prove they can get along. That means Heather will have to play nice with Chris and put up with his obnoxiousness, his drop-dead sexiness, and his ugly recliner named Flo.
She'll do what she has to do out of loyalty to her father, but she isn't going to like it.
At least not much.
“Heather?”
The male voice was familiar, but it was also shocking, since it was coming from
the doorway to the bathroom.
The
doorway to the bathroom!
Her eyes
shot open, and she squealed when she saw Chris looking in, Lucy dancing
ecstatically at his feet.
“What are
you doing?” she gasped, trying to hide under the water until she realized that
there were no bubbles to hide beneath. She’d only put in some lavender and honey
scented bath salts. “What are you doing here?”
Chris
blinked, his gaze focused decidedly lower than it should be. “I live here.”
“But
you’re not supposed to be here until after seven!” Her mind shifting quickly
into crisis mode, she grabbed her towel, which she’d fortunately placed within
arm’s reach, and lifted it to cover herself as she stood up.
“Was that
a rule I missed?” His voice was dry and gruff, as usual, but he was decidedly
distracted, his eyes raking over her bare dripping legs and the damp towel.
She
scowled at him and gestured to her face. “Eyes up here.”
He
managed to raise his eyes to meet hers. “You’re the one taking a bath with the
door open.”
“That was
for Lucy!” She was flustered and embarrassed and also just a little bit
excited, although that last reaction was probably just a fluke.
“She
likes to leer at you while you’re naked?”
“No! She
likes to come in and out. You weren’t supposed to be home until after seven.”
“Why do
you keep saying that?” He seemed amused now, although his eyes did occasionally
drift back down to her body. “I didn’t realize you’d given me a schedule.”
“Dad said
that you were working at the Harmon job until after seven.” She managed to say
this more lucidly, since she realized squealing wasn’t the best way to express
her quite reasonable assumption.
“The crew
is working. But there was no reason for me to stay there the whole time.”
Typical
of him to slack off before the job was done. He was always walking away when
things got hard. She decided not to say so, though, since she was genuinely
trying to get along with the man. “I didn’t know that.”
“I can
see that.” He frowned as he glanced around at the flickering candles. “Why do
you have all these candles lit and the music on? I thought you might have someone
here with you.”
Naturally,
his mind would go immediately to her getting it on with some guy in their
apartment. She gave him a prim little frown. “There’s no one here with me. I
thought, since you weren’t here, I’d have a little private time.”
“Oh.”
Something changed on his face. “Oh.”
The second time, he drawled out the word, stretching it out far longer than it
should have been.
It took
her a moment to realize what he was implying. When she did, she gasped and
hugged the towel to her more closely. “Not like that!”
Did he
actually think she was in here with the candles and music, having a little fun
with herself?
“Ah. Too bad. That would have been something to walk in
on.”
Noelle Adams
Noelle
handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was
twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different
states and currently resides in Virginia, where she reads any book she can get
her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves
travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her
life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus
on writing contemporary romances.
Samantha Chase
New York
Times and USA Today Bestseller/contemporary romance writer Samantha Chase
released her debut novel, Jordan's Return, in November 2011. Although she waited
until she was in her 40's to publish for the first time, writing has been a
lifelong passion. Her motivation to take that step was her students: teaching
creative writing to elementary age students all the way up through high school
and encouraging those students to follow their writing dreams gave Samantha the
confidence to take that step as well.
When
she's not working on a new story, she spends her time reading contemporary
romances, blogging, playing way too many games of Scrabble on Facebook and
spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North
Carolina.
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