Straight From The Hip. Susan Mallery
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Название: Straight From The Hip

Автор: Susan Mallery

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Эротическая литература

Серия: Mills & Boon M&B

isbn: 9781408953914

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      Rave reviews for New York Times

       bestselling author

       SUSAN MALLERY

      Sweet Spot

      “Mallery is in top-notch form as she takes troubled and stubborn individuals and portrays their emotional growth. Drama and trauma abound in this winner!”

      —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

      “I strongly recommend Sweet Spot, especially to readers who like their family melodramas spiked with lots of laughter and hot romance.”

      —The Romance Reader

      Sweet Talk

      “Sweet Talk is one sweet read! Susan Mallery delivers a deliciously satisfying first book in her new wonderfully written Bakery Sisters trilogy.”

      —The Romance Readers Connection (4 1/2 stars)

      “Amusing, heartfelt and wildly romantic, Sweet Talk is the perfect romance.”

      —Joyfully Reviewed

      “Susan Mallery provides a powerful, passionate backdrop to a fine contemporary romance.”

      —Harriet Klausner

      Accidentally Yours

      “Mallery has once again proven to be a superb writer; romance novels just don’t get much better than this.”

      —Booklist

      “If you’re looking for heart-tugging emotions elaborately laced with humor, then Mallery is the author for you.”

      —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

      Tempting

      “At turns witty and poignant, this hard-to-put-down book will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.”

      —Booklist, starred review

      Sizzling

      “[A] tasty dish…Mallery’s prose is luscious and provocative, and her characters worth following from book to book.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      “Sizzling is simply dazzling! You’ll laugh, you’ll hoot, you’ll raise your eyebrows, and yes, you’ll cry buckets, so have those tissues handy…. Highly Recommended!”

      —The Romance Readers Connection

      Straight from the Hip

      Susan Mallery

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STRAIGHT FROM THE HIP

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      CHAPTER EIGHT

      CHAPTER NINE

      CHAPTER TEN

      CHAPTER ELEVEN

      CHAPTER TWELVE

      CHAPTER THIRTEEN

      CHAPTER FOURTEEN

      CHAPTER FIFTEEN

      CHAPTER SIXTEEN

      CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

      CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

      CHAPTER NINETEEN

      CHAPTER ONE

      IN THE MOVIES there was always a warning before something bad happened. Music swelled, the good guy promised everything would be fine now or the camera suddenly went into slow motion.

      Life wasn’t so tidy.

      Izzy Titan sat in the window seat, as she had every day for the past month, staring out at a blurry world and feeling sorry for herself. While it wasn’t a career choice everyone would make, it filled the day. She ignored her sisters’ pleas that she join them for lunch or shopping or even come downstairs to dinner. Like a regular person. When it got too annoying, she pointed out she wasn’t regular anymore—she was handicapped. If that didn’t work, she slammed the door and locked it until they went away. She’d always given everything she had, so she was ready to become the self-pity queen, if necessary.

      Finally her sisters stopped bugging her. Which should have been a really big clue.

      There wasn’t any warning. One minute she was sitting in her usual spot, the next, someone grabbed her around the waist, pulled her to her feet, then tossed her over a very broad, very hard shoulder.

      “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she yelled as blood rushed to her head, making her a little dizzy.

      “My job. Go ahead and fight me all you want. You can’t hurt me.”

      It was a challenge she couldn’t ignore. But when she tried to kick her attacker, he wrapped one arm around her legs, holding her still. Wiggling didn’t help either. The man had muscles like rock and a month of immobilizing self-pity had left her girlishly weak.

      “I swear,” she began, as the guy turned and started walking. “Do you know who I am?”

      “Izzy Titan. Hey, Skye.”

      Hey, Skye?

      Izzy raised her head and tried to make СКАЧАТЬ