Blurb: Evan Hermes traded in
romance for pragmatism when he suggested marriage at their New Year's Eve party
to his girlfriend Kitt Preston. It was a “suggestion” which wasn’t well
received by the love of his life. Though it’s taken him most of the year to
figure out the perfect proposal, this time romance is front and center to
obtain a yes!
Kitt has been in love with Evan ever since he asked her out during their first year of college. Tall, handsome, and a family man, Evan is the kind of person that most women would be falling over themselves to marry…but not her. Kitt is only willing to say yes to a marriage proposal that is worthy of their love and years together.
Kitt has been in love with Evan ever since he asked her out during their first year of college. Tall, handsome, and a family man, Evan is the kind of person that most women would be falling over themselves to marry…but not her. Kitt is only willing to say yes to a marriage proposal that is worthy of their love and years together.
Excerpt:
Excerpt for Just As
Good
4 days before
Christmas
A second chance for
Evan to propose felt about as miraculous as Santa Claus standing in the middle
of his living room with an inheritance grand enough for him, Kitt, and their
future children’s children to each share comfortably.
As a grown man, it
was kind of silly to believe in things such as the miracle of the holidays, but
even after discovering Santa’s nonexistence at the age of eight just as his
mother lost her battle to cancer, he still saved some hope for Santa during the
holidays.
Kitt had left the
house that week to spend it helping her mother and stepfather get ready for
their trip to Barbados. Evan shivered before pressing the doorbell to Kitt’s
parent’s house. She had been the friend he lusted over for a greater part of
first year until he confessed to her and they became a couple. He would forgive
Santa for allowing people to say that he was someone who didn’t exist if the
old man had his back for just this one holiday. He wanted to make it a
Christmas that Kitt wouldn’t be able to forget.
Kitt opened the door
with a large pink suitcase rolling behind her.
“Are you immigrating
to my parent’s cottage?” he asked.
Evan smiled at her as
Kitt stuck her tongue out at him. He knew her to be a person who traveled only
after packing half of her closet even if it was just for a day.
“I always win your
parents and brothers over with my runway model wardrobe,” Kitt teased. “And you
know I have a lot of hair products.”
“I would figure,” he
said.
Her thick, curly hair
formed small spirals around her shoulders. It had been their first source of
conversation after Kitt asked to stand under his umbrella on the first day of
university classes. He had looked down at the shorter girl beside him seeing
only curls, large glasses, and flawless brown skin before he decided that he
had fallen for her.
He reached for her
suitcase. “I’ll take that.”
“Ah…holding doors and
carrying all of the heavy things…” she said. “Good boyfriend.”
She turned to lock her front door and then
walked to his car. The word “boyfriend” was appearing in a grateful
afterthought in her sentences. If he had done more than suggest marriage, he
would be called “future husband” sweetly instead.
Author Keshia Robertson hails from Toronto,
Canada where she writes fresh sensual to erotic contemporary romance with a
multicultural twist. When she isn't crafting stories of sexy heroes and witty
heroines you can find her on twitter @startswithakesh or on her website
startswithakesh.com discussing her preferred writing techniques or the latest
episode of a Korean drama.
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