For a limited time only: men up for grabs!
Retail maven Carlotta Wren loves nothing better than to shop, but with her scandalousâand debt-riddenâbackground, sheâs been too busy trying to keep her head above water to have the luxury of shopping for a man!
Now she has three men in her lifeâa sexy cop hot on the trail of her fugitive parents, a fascinating body mover who has secrets of his own and her repentant first love whoâs back with his heart in his hands. Thrust into the middle of yet another crisis, the once-lonely Carlotta finds herself surrounded by lots of prime male merchandise! One man sheâll try on for size â¦
One man sheâll save for a special occasion â¦
And one man will make her an offer thatâs hard to refuse â¦
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âBond has successfully switched to the crime genre, bringing along her trademark humour and panache.â
âBooklist
âHereâs to Carlottaâs future misadventures lasting a long time.â
âRT Book Reviews (4 1/2 stars)
âThis is a series the reader will want to jump on in the very beginning. Itâs witty, sexy and hilariously funny.â
âWriters Unlimited
âThe exciting start of a new series.â
âRomance Reviews Today
âBody Movers is signature Stephanie Bond, with witty dialogue, brilliant characterisation, and a wonderful well-plotted storyline.â âContemporary Romance Writers
âI devoured this book and loved it!â
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As with every book, there are certain people who made the journey easier. First, thanks to my editors Brenda Chin, Margaret OâNeill Marbury and Dianne Moggy for their assistance in getting the Body Movers series off the ground running, and for the guarantee that, as of this date, the series will last for at least four books. Thanks, too, to my agent Kimberly Whalen of Trident Media Group for handling the logistics, to my critique partner, Rita Herron, for her unflagging support, and to my husband, Christopher Hauck, for his glowing cover quote.:)
Thanks, too, to the booksellers who have recommended this series to their customers, and to all of you readers who e-mailed asking when the second book would hit the shelvesâI hope you enjoy 2 Bodies for the Price of 1! Keep those e-mails coming!
Hi, there. My name is Carlotta Wren. Iâm a whisper away from being thirty years old. I work for Neiman Marcus in Atlanta. And Iâm single. Youâre probably thinking, Sounds pretty normal. But let me tell you, friend, you wonât believe what Iâve been through in the last ten years.
I was barely eighteen, a senior in a private high school, living in a mansion in a tony area of Atlanta known as Buckhead, engaged to a handsome rich young man named Peter Ashford and on my way to college when my father was charged with investment fraud. The world as I knew it crumbled around us as my family lost every worldly possession and we were forced to move into a grubby townhouse in a less tony part of town.
My father said he was framed but instead of staying to face down his problems, he decided to skip bailâand townâand my drunken socialite mother went with him. I havenât seen them since. And hereâs the kicker: They left me to raise my nine-year-old brother Wesley. Can you imagine? I was barely an adult and ill-equipped to finish raising myself, much less a sensitive kid with a genius IQ.
But I regrouped. College was obviously out, so I started a retail job and discovered that my life as a rich kid had at least prepared me to sell expensive things to my former friends. Yes, I said âformer.â As soon as my fatherâs scandal hit the papers, my friends fledâand so did my boyfriendâPeter dumped me like last yearâs handbag.
But Wesley and I made it through somehow and one day I looked up to discover that he was a grown man. As you can imagine, Wesley and I are close, but we do disagree on a few things. Wesley is convinced my father is innocent and is hiding out until he can prove it ⦠Iâm convinced my father is an asshole and is hiding out on a tropical island.
Another area in which my brother and I disagree: Wesley, now nineteen, has an aversion to working a regular jobâheâd rather play Texas Hold âEm poker and hang out with the wrong sort of people. In fact, heâs up to hisâand myâneck in debt to two loan sharks. And recently he was arrested for hacking into the courthouse computer database to delete speeding tickets for his friends. When I went to post bail, I met the arresting officer, Detective Jack Terry, and we didnât exactly hit it off.
Wesleyâs arrest caught the attention of the D.A. whoâd arrested our father and decided to take it out on Wesley. My dadâs former attorneyâand lover, sheeshâstepped in to help Wesley and he got off with probation and a fineâyay, more debt. But with the Wren family back on the radar, the D.A. decided to reopen my fatherâs case and assign it to none other than Detective Terry.