Night After Night...
Talk about chemistry!Subjects: Mia Maldonado, Nate CaffertyExperiment: To study the effects of sleeping with a strangerObservations: Vital signs of both subjects are off the charts– and they aren't doing any sleeping!When Mia agrees to take her friend's place in a sleep study, she never dreams she'll be sharing a bed with Nate Cafferty– a very fine specimen, if she does say so herself. Still, her life is too complicated right now to start messing around with a guy so hot he could make her forget her own name. And that would be a fatal mistake….Private investigator Nate hopes that posing as a research subject will allow him to get close to this mysterious woman who isn't who she claims to be. But he can't seem to focus on anything but the seductress he's sleeping with! How can he uncover all her secrets…when all he wants to do is play under the covers with her instead?
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A stranger lay next to her
Mia bolted upright in the bed and screamed.
The man sat up, too, causing the comforter to fall and reveal a snug gray T-shirt that outlined the impressive width of his shoulders. His gaze dropped to her breasts, which were visible through her pink nightshirt. A wickedly sexy smile kicked up one side of his mouth.
She grabbed the comforter, pulling it up to her neck, then jabbed the call button on the headboard several times.
The door to the suite swung open and Dr. Harlan Longo hurried into the room. âIs there a problem?â
She pointed to the intruder. âI just found this man in my bed!â
The man leaned against the headboard. âI donât think she was expecting me, Harlan.â
âNate Cafferty is part of the sleep experiment Iâm conducting,â the scientist explained. âThis experiment tests the effects of sleeping with a stranger.â
Mia looked over at Nate. Ruggedly handsome, he far surpassed any dream lover sheâd ever imagined. And at that moment she half feared, and half hoped, she wouldnât be doing any sleeping at allâ¦.
Dear Reader,
I love to hear stories about how couples first met. What fascinates me is how one seemingly insignificant decision can change your life forever. Like when I chose to attend a college fraternity party instead of going home for the weekend. Thatâs how I met my future husband. Or when a friend of mine decided to take a later airplane flight and found himself seated next to his future wife. Fate or coincidence?
When Mia Maldonado decides to take her friendâs place in a sleep study, she has no idea that a sexy stranger named Nate Cafferty will be sleeping beside her. Fate or coincidence? You decideâ¦.
I love to hear from readers. You can reach me through my Web site at www.KristinGabriel.com or write to P.O. Box 5162, Grand Island, NE 68802-5162.
Enjoy!
Kristin Gabriel
Books by Kristin Gabriel
HARLEQUIN TEMPTATION
834âDANGEROUSLY IRRESISTIBLE
868âSEDUCED IN SEATTLE
896âSHEERLY IRRESISTIBLE
909âPROPOSITIONED?
932âENGAGING ALEX
966âSTRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
HARLEQUIN DUETS
7âANNIE, GET YOUR GROOM
25âTHE BACHELOR TRAP
27âBACHELOR BY DESIGN
29âBEAUTY AND THE BACHELOR
61âOPERATION BABE-MAGNET OPERATION BEAUTY
For Jean Louise
Contents
1
MIA MALDONADO knew there was trouble the moment she heard âBlue Suede Shoesâ blaring from the stereo speakers. Elvis always meant a crisis was brewing, so she proceeded warily through the front hall of the house, ready for anything.
The living room, which doubled as an office for her interior design business, was empty. Another bad sign. Sheâd leased the Tudor-style home a year ago, hoping the affluent Philadelphia neighborhood would bring wealthy, decorating-impaired clients to her door.
It had worked, tooâuntil sheâd started dating her design firmâs best carpenter. She had a bad habit of falling too hard and too fast for men like Ian Brock. Men who looked so good in a pair of tight jeans that she overlooked their other genesâthe ones that made them lie, cheatâ¦and steal her sanity.
When sheâd lived in Chicago, her heart had been broken so many times that sheâd made a donation to the new cardiac wing at one of the cityâs hospitals in the name of all her mistakes. Mistakes like Bryan, Andrew, Jeff, Wyatt and Justin. Then sheâd moved from Chicago to Philadelphia, ready for a fresh start.
But Ian was proof that she still hadnât learned her lesson. Heâd dumped Mia three months ago, taking her heart and most of her clients along with him. Now she was determined that heâd be the last romantic mistake she ever made. From here on, Mia was going to follow her head instead of her hormones.
At least her best friend hadnât abandoned her yet. Sheâd met Carleen Wimmer a year ago, when they were the only two people at a matinee screening of Gone With The Wind. By intermission, theyâd been sharing a large tub of buttered popcorn and commiserating over the fact that men like Clark Gable didnât exist anymore. By the end of the movie, Mia had offered Carleen a job as her office assistant.
Soon after, they decided to pool their limited resources by having Carleen move into the house. Kindred spirits, they shared a love of old movies, Thai cuisine and expeditions to flea markets. Carleenâs gentle, cautious nature was the perfect complement to Miaâs leap-before-you-look approach to life.
But Mia would lose her roommate next month when Carleen married Tobias Hamilton, a Philadelphia blue blood who could trace his family back to the Mayflower. He didnât seem to care that his fiancée had grown up in a trailer park instead of on Park Avenue.
Mia was happy for Carleen, even if Tobias was a littleâ¦bland. Maybe bland was good. Bland didnât run off with the first teenage bimbo to come along. Bland didnât break your heart. She was certainly in no position to criticize anyone elseâs love life. Not when her own had so recently ended in disaster.
