Title: Mismatched in Mayhem
Series: Whiskey Sisters #4
Author: L.E. Rico
Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLC
Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Release Date: January 13, 2020
Blurb
Welcome to Mayhem, Minnesota, with its sweater-wearing cats
and ultra-competitive trivia nights. Where love really does conquer all...if
youāll let it.
Walker OāHalloran is finally ready to shed her āwild childā persona. Bartending at her familyās pub, babysitting her adorable niece and nephews, and getting her degree during the day. What she doesnāt do is date--or even think about dating. Ever. Until he walks into her bar, looking like a former Mr. Quarterback of the Football Team and Student Council President all rolled into one. No, thank you.
Mason Stevens has a secretāand it prevents him from knowing if someone is truly interested in him, or just what he can do for them. Until he meets Walker. Sheās the first person in ages who doesnāt recognize him, and her grouchy attitude feels like the greatest challenge of his life. And heās ready for it.
But the more time they spend together, the more heās desperate to come cleanāitās just never the right time. Until the paparazzi do it for himā¦
Walker OāHalloran is finally ready to shed her āwild childā persona. Bartending at her familyās pub, babysitting her adorable niece and nephews, and getting her degree during the day. What she doesnāt do is date--or even think about dating. Ever. Until he walks into her bar, looking like a former Mr. Quarterback of the Football Team and Student Council President all rolled into one. No, thank you.
Mason Stevens has a secretāand it prevents him from knowing if someone is truly interested in him, or just what he can do for them. Until he meets Walker. Sheās the first person in ages who doesnāt recognize him, and her grouchy attitude feels like the greatest challenge of his life. And heās ready for it.
But the more time they spend together, the more heās desperate to come cleanāitās just never the right time. Until the paparazzi do it for himā¦
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Excerpt
I head to the only place where I seem to be able to clear my head. The
roof. At nearly two in the morning, the entirety of Main Street is dark and
deserted. I sigh and close my eyes, hoping maybe Iāll doze off. And I doā¦but
then Iām dreaming that someone is calling my name. It takes a few seconds to
realize that it isnāt a dream. Someone really is calling my name.
āWalker! Are you up there? Walker!ā
Startled, I jump up and follow the sound to the edge of the roof
overlooking the alley between our building and the one next door. Looking up at
me is Mason Stevens.
āMason? What are you doing here?ā
āI have to talk to you. Can you please come down here?ā
I shake my head.
āUh-uh. No way. Go home, itās late.ā
āPlease! Just let me talk to you.ā
āI am not coming down.ā
āOkay, then let me come up and see you thereā¦ā
āDude! Youāre not listening to me. I donāt want to talk to you. Thereās
nothing to say.ā
āOf course there is! I have to explain about Cassandra. And I know what
my mom said to you at the pub. Walker, thereās so much I have to say to you.
Please, donāt make me do it from down here.ā
āNo.ā
Iām about to turn around and go inside when he does something incredibly bizarre.
He grabs the long drainpipe that runs down the side of the building. And he
starts to climb.
āHey!ā I holler down at him. āHey, stop that!ā
āWalker OāHalloran, I love you!ā heās saying as he passes the first floor
windows and starts on the second floor.
āMason! That thing is not going to support your weight. Stop! Please!
Just go down before you kill yourself!ā I hear myself getting louder and
shriller. A light comes on across the street in an apartment over the newspaper
office.
āNo. I wonāt stop. Not until we get our H-E-A.ā
āOurā¦what?ā
āHappily ever afāā
I presume he was going to say āhappily ever afterā right up until the
moment that the brackets holding the pipe against the brick faƧade break free
and the pipe starts to bend backward, taking Mason with it.
āOh, shhhāā I hear him mutter just before I lose all sense of time and
place.
Heās falling. Heās high enough up that heāll surely break his back, or
his neck, or crack his skull open. Oh, sweet Jesus, he could die! He came here
to see me and I wouldnāt let him up. So he climbed the wallā¦and now heās going
to die! Iām going to kill someone else.
āMason!ā I hear myself screech as he continues his backward descent,
still clutching the pipe with his arms and legs.
Itās all happening in slow motion and, for a brief second, heās almost
horizontal, like a pig hanging off a spit at a luau.
āMason!ā I shriek again, running back and forth along the ledge of the
building, my eyes scanning the roof around me for inspiration. But thereās
nothing. And itās too late, anyway.
I can only watch in horror as he falls out of my reach. And out of my
life.
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Author Bio
L.E. Rico
didnāt set out to be an author. In fact sheās made a name for herself as a
classical music radio hostādoing her best to make the music and the composers
relevant by putting them into a modern context. It was just a few years ago
that she discovered a passion for writing that blossomed into an entire novel.
And then another. And another. And, while she still spends plenty of time on
the radio, telling the stories of the great composers, she spends even more
time composing her own great stories.
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