Breakaway
Welcome to Last Bachelor Standing!How long can three sexy single men hold out?Our next bachelor? Mr. Business-Before-Pleasure, Max Varo. He's a genius billionaire with the cojones to go after anything he wants–and win. Now this tempting man is disguised as a "pilot" while he checks out a small Alaskan airline he wants to buy. But he's about to meet his (very sexy) Waterloo….Pilot Claire Lundstrom hasn't a clue that her family's struggling business is on the cusp of a takeover. What she does know is that she has some rather unbosslike lusty thoughts for Max. But Claire will have to convince him–in the most exquisite ways possible–that losing can be way more fun than winning!
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Welcome to Last Bachelor Standing!
How long can three sexy single men hold out?
Our next bachelor? Mr. Business-Before-Pleasure, Max Varo. Heâs a genius billionaire with the cojones to go after anything he wantsâand win. Now this tempting man is disguised as a âpilotâ while he checks out a small Alaskan airline he wants to buy. But heâs about to meet his (very sexy) Waterlooâ¦.
Pilot Claire Lundstrom hasnât a clue that her familyâs struggling business is on the cusp of a takeover. What she does know is that she has some rather unbosslike lusty thoughts for Max. But Claire will have to convince himâin the most exquisite ways possibleâthat losing can be way more fun than winning!
She felt a surge of sexual heat so strong she caught her breathâ¦
Max rose, never letting his gaze drop, and Claire felt powerless herself to break the connection.
Closer.
Never breaking stride until he stood right up in front of her, so close she could see the stubble on his face and glimpse the black flecks in his dark brown eyes. Eyes that stared at her with an intensity that made her shiver.
He moved even closer. She didnât step back but held her ground, held his gaze.
He grabbed her shoulders, pulled her to him and kissed her with the same urgency heâd drunk deep of the stream only moments ago.
She felt the roughness of a face that hadnât seen a razor in two days, the coldness of the river water on his lips, the hot, potent energy of the man flowing through him and into her.
She wanted more.
More of that energy, more of his solid sexiness in her arms.
And more of the feeling that something positive and wonderful was happening in the midst of this madnessâ¦.
Dear Reader,
In Breakaway, book two in the Last Bachelor Standing trilogy, aeronautics billionaire Max Varo is looking for a challenge. He finds it in Alaska with sexy bush pilot Claire Lundstrom. Max and Claire also love playing hockey and it was great fun watching them challenge each other on the ice and off.
A thirty-five-year-old bachelor, Max is a little tired of being courted for his wealth. Going undercover for his company to see whatâs up with Polar Air, the small airline owned by Claire and her grandmother, is supposed to be a lark, not change his whole life. For Claire, having an affair with the newest bush pilot is only supposed to be a lark. Not change her whole life. Itâs funny how love can mess up a perfectly good plan.
An avid hiker myself, I based Polar Air on some of the small airlines Iâve flown with to get into remote hiking areas. And the bear encounter? Thatâs based on my own experiences.
Up next? Look for bachelor number three Dylanâs story, Final Score, coming in June 2014.
Visit me on the web at www.nancywarren.net.
Happy reading!
Nancy Warren
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
USA TODAY bestselling author Nancy Warren lives in the Pacific Northwest, where her hobbies include skiing, hiking and snowshoeing. Sheâs an author of more than thirty novels and novellas for Mills & Boon and has won numerous awards. Visit her website at www.nancywarren.net for news on upcoming titles.
I dedicate this book to Sharon and Stewart McKenzie
for their many years of friendship and career help.
I love you guys.
Acknowledgments:
I have come to rely on friends, friends of friends, and in this book, husbands and sons of friends who are so generous in spilling about things they know. Thanks to Mary, Trish and Ted for their assistance in flying and crashing a plane. Thanks to Karen, her son Guillaume and his friend Leo for brilliantly helping with the big hockey scene. Thanks to John for all his wilderness backpacking expertise. I dedicate this book to all of you, with thanks.
Contents
1
THREE MEN SAT around a campfire on a warm June evening at a wilderness site in Oregon. All were rugged, fit and experienced outdoorsmen. Two were single. One was about to be married. Four days of kayaking had seemed like the perfect choice for their last trip as three single guys. Max Varo, Adam Shawnigan and Dylan Cross had known each other since they started playing together in the sandbox three decades earlier. Now in their mid-thirties, they had successful careers and still played together, though now their sandbox was a hockey rink.
The fire crackled, throwing a little light and a little warmth their way. Maxâs muscles ached from paddling all day against choppy currents. He rolled his shoulders, knowing tomorrow would bring more of the same. Their dinner, beef Stroganoff that came in a foil pack from someplace called Backpackersâ Pantry, had been eaten. Now they sat around holding metal mugs of campfire coffee, their tents pitched behind them, kayaks pulled up for the night. Max and Adam stared into the fire, each lost in his own thoughts, while Dylan, always the restless one, built an inuksuk out of nearby stones. Then, bored with that, he suddenly said, âSo, Adam, any regrets about getting hitched?â
