Her
supposed "right match" might just be the wrong brother.
Matchmaking
guru Kennedy Pepperdine’s life is perfect. Perfect job. Perfect friends.
Perfect boyfriend. Except...when she gets trapped in an elevator with a
handsome stranger, she accidentally confesses a secret: maybe her perfect
boyfriend, Justin, isn’t so perfect for her after all. But a matchmaker should
be able to successfully match herself, right? Thankfully, she’ll never see the
handsome stranger again. Until she heads home with Justin for the holidays and
learns that the sexy stranger is none other than Justin’s older brother, Matt.
Matt Ellis
is trying to be on his best behavior for his mother—it is Christmas, after all.
But when he recognizes the beautiful woman from the elevator—the one he hasn’t
been able to stop thinking about for months—his best behavior is being held by
a thread. Matt’s always sacrificed for his family, and nothing is more
important than their happiness, but the more time he spends around Kennedy, the
more he wonders if her supposed "right match" might just be the wrong
brother.
A sweet read that's sure to warm you up for the holiday season.
Kennedy, while away in Vegas at a convention, runs to make an elevator and finds herself stuck with a dark and handsome man. I mean what could go wrong when you are claustrophobic and to help pass the time, have drunk a bottle of champagne with no food? There's something about Matt (the guy in the elevator with her) that she seems to be at ease with. And so she confesses to the stranger, that things aren't as perfect as she would like with her boyfriend Justin. When the two are thrown together, literally, sparks fly and the two share a kiss. A kiss that neither will be able to forget for sometime.
Now months later, Kennedy is back home and things are better between her workaholic boyfriend Justin and herself. In fact, they are getting married and will be spending two weeks with his family over the holidays. Kennedy is beyond excited to finally have a family. Until she walks in and is greeted by Justin's brother Matt.
Matt can't believe the woman from the elevator is his brother's fiance and he hasn't forgotten everything she said about her not so perfect boyfriend. But as Justin has to run back into Boston for a work event, leaving Kennedy with Matt to take care of her, the two start to see that maybe she picked the wrong brother to begin with.
But what can Kennedy and Matt do? They don't want to hurt Justin, but can they deny what is happening between the two of them?
Although I'm not one for triangles (mainly due to the cheating aspect) there is no cheating to be had in this book. I found the book full of hope and love and a good romance read full of holiday fun.
Kennedy, while away in Vegas at a convention, runs to make an elevator and finds herself stuck with a dark and handsome man. I mean what could go wrong when you are claustrophobic and to help pass the time, have drunk a bottle of champagne with no food? There's something about Matt (the guy in the elevator with her) that she seems to be at ease with. And so she confesses to the stranger, that things aren't as perfect as she would like with her boyfriend Justin. When the two are thrown together, literally, sparks fly and the two share a kiss. A kiss that neither will be able to forget for sometime.
Now months later, Kennedy is back home and things are better between her workaholic boyfriend Justin and herself. In fact, they are getting married and will be spending two weeks with his family over the holidays. Kennedy is beyond excited to finally have a family. Until she walks in and is greeted by Justin's brother Matt.
Matt can't believe the woman from the elevator is his brother's fiance and he hasn't forgotten everything she said about her not so perfect boyfriend. But as Justin has to run back into Boston for a work event, leaving Kennedy with Matt to take care of her, the two start to see that maybe she picked the wrong brother to begin with.
But what can Kennedy and Matt do? They don't want to hurt Justin, but can they deny what is happening between the two of them?
Although I'm not one for triangles (mainly due to the cheating aspect) there is no cheating to be had in this book. I found the book full of hope and love and a good romance read full of holiday fun.
Matt looked at his sister. “What do you think?”
“We can let her in on the secret,” Caitlyn said with a huge grin. “She’s definitely one of us.”
Matt hesitated. “Okay. The truth is…we all hate the fruitcake.”
“I knew it!” she exclaimed then frowned. “But I don’t understand. Why pretend to like it, then?”
“Honestly? Because none of us has the heart to tell her the truth. It makes her so happy. She’s one of the two percent who actually enjoys it.”
“And your dad,” she added. “He liked it, too. Your mom said so.”
Matt shook his head gravely. “No, he hated it the most.”
Kennedy blinked then looked to Caitlyn. “He did?”
“Yup.” Caitlyn shrugged. “Like Matt said, we didn’t have the heart to make her feel bad on Christmas. At least this time she didn’t put any figs or dried pineapple in it. That was a particularly bad year. Although Justin tolerated it the best out of all of us.”
Kennedy cracked a smile. “So your mom goes through all this trouble of making a fruitcake every Christmas and she’s the only one who eats it?”
“Oh, no,” Matt assured her. “We’ll all choke down a slice. You, too, since you’ll soon be part of the family. And we’ll all tell her how great it is. It’s tradition.”
“Tradition,” Caitlyn echoed firmly.
Kennedy laughed. Oh my, if she didn’t already love this family, this aspect of it only endeared them to her more. “Well, your secret is safe with me. I love traditions myself.”
“That’s good,” Caitlyn said, cracking herself up, “because you and Matt are standing under the mistletoe.”
What?!
Kennedy cautiously looked up as if to find the Sword of Damocles dangling over her, but instead found a small green ball of mistletoe tied up with ribbon. Crap! Her gaze dropped to Matt, who held a gleam of interest in his eyes, and her cheeks caught fire.
“Oh, well, that’s a silly tradition,” she said hurriedly, “I mean, we don’t have to do that.” Do we?
Barbara walked back into the room. “What don’t you have to do?”
Caitlyn pointed to the ball. “Matt and Kennedy are under the mistletoe.”
“Oh, how nice,” Barbara said, clasping her hands. “Kiss her, Matt. It’s Christmas after all.”
Matt glanced at Kennedy and stiffened, but without further argument leaned in to her. Her heart fluttered like a hummingbird in anticipation. She caught the pleasant scent of pine and soap on his skin as he brushed his lips against her cheek, hovering for just a few brief seconds before he was once again at a safe distance from her. Such a simple kiss, yet her emotions whirled and skidded.
“I’d better get going,” Matt murmured, backing into the door.
His mom frowned. “Are you okay, dear? Maybe you should sit down a bit first.”
“No, I need to get kissing—er, going. I need to go.” His gaze reluctantly returned to hers, and his voice dipped. “I’ll see you tomorrow night?”
She nodded, not trusting her voice. Then he was out the door as if suddenly spooked.
Unfortunately, she knew exactly how he felt.
She writes sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Samhain Publishing, Avalon Books/Montlake Romance and now Entangled Publishing. She won third place in the RWA 2006 NYC's Kathryn Hayes Love and Laughter Contest with her first book, THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME. Recently, her novel SUNNY DAYS FOR SAM won the 2013 Golden Quill Published Authors Contest for Best Traditional Romance.
Lately she's been on a serious exercise kick. But don't hold that against her.
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