Choosing the Right Man (NICE GIRL TO LOVE Book Three)
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Authors: Violet Duke
Tags: #Romance
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C
HOOSING
THE
R
IGHT
M
AN
N
ICE
G
IRL TO
L
OVE
B
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T
HREE
V
IOLET
D
UKE
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ISBN-10: 0989163326
ISBN-13: 978-0-9891633-2-3
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, and events are either the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental.
O
THER
T
ITLES
BY THE
A
UTHOR
:
NICE GIRL TO LOVE (Serial Romance) Series
R
ESISTING THE
B
AD
B
OY,
Book #1
Available Now
F
ALLING FOR THE
G
OOD
G
UY,
Book #2
Available Now
C
HOOSING
THE
R
IGHT
M
AN
, Book #3
Available Now
N
ICE
G
IRL TO
L
OVE:
The Complete Collection
Available Now
A ‘Nice Girl’ Spin-Off Standalone Novel
(
title withheld
)
Coming October 2013
CACTUS CREEK Series
L
OVE,
C
HOCOLATE, AND
B
EER
Coming January 2014
L
OVE,
W
EAPONS, AND
C
OMBAT
Coming May 2014
L
OVE,
S
IDELINES, AND
E
NDZONES
Coming September 2014
Praise for the Nice Girl to Love series:
"A heartfelt, fast-paced, and fun read!" -- Lauren Blakely, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
"A sexy, often emotional treat that will resonate with the 'nice girl' in all of us." -- Lexi Ryan, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author
"A sexy must read filled with humor, heart and smokin' hot love scenes!" -- Melanie Shawn, Author of The Hope Falls Chronicles and The Crossroads Series
"Highly recommend this entertaining sexy read...[it] will make you laugh and then make you hope...can't wait to get my hands on Book Two." --Passionate About Books Review Blog
“Absolutely amazing. Gave me the best (or worse) book hangovers I’ve had in a LONG time.” --Mama’s Reading Break Review Blog
The
NICE GIRL TO LOVE
serial romance series
Resisting the Bad Boy
(
Nice Girl to Love
, Book One)
Abby Bartlett is the quintessential nice girl. Between teaching, volunteering, completing her PhD, and helping her best friend raise his daughter, Abby never gets the chance to be anything but nice. That is, until the all-wrong-for-her man she's only ever known from afar starts daring her to simply take that chance for herself. His sage advice? Try something wild and fast.
Preferably him.
An unbridled, hotshot attorney with a not-so-little black book, Connor Sullivan has earned himself quite the bad boy reputation. But in his defense, he's a very conscientious one. He knows far too well that sometimes in life, love isn't enough...or worse, not even a factor at all. To avoid that misery--and repel the drama--Connor always makes his one and only rule crystal clear right from the start. Absolutely nothing more than a month.
Turns out, a whole lot can happen in one month.
Print Length: 164 pages (Based on paperback edition, available August 2013)
Note: This is Book One of a three-book serial romance series.
Falling for the Good Guy
(
Nice Girl to Love
, Book Two)
Abby Bartlett is well aware that everyone thinks she's in love with her best friend Brian. He is, after all, the type of man a nice girl should be with--the polar opposite of the bad boy--the kind of guy who didn't let his wife's decade-long illness stop him from showering her with a lifetime of love every second until her dying day. Yes, Brian has been the yardstick against which Abby has measured all other men. But everyone's wrong; she couldn't possibly be in love with him.
Because she's never once allowed herself that option.
It's taken a while but Brian Sullivan has finally come to terms with being a widower at the age of thirty, surviving the woman he spent half his life loving, a third of it losing. Truth is though, he wouldn't have 'survived' any of it really had it not been for Abby--sweet, incredible Abby--the woman he's never once had to picture his life without, never realized he couldn't truly live without. Until now. Now that he's finally able to love her the way she deserves, the way he knows she wants to be loved...by his brother.
Who's giving him exactly one chance to speak now or forever hold his peace.
Print Length: 142 pages (Based on paperback edition, available August 2013)
Note: This is Book Two of a three-book serial romance series.
Choosing the Right Man
(
Nice Girl to Love
, Book Three)
Connor’s back. Just when Abby’s life seems all but perfect, the infuriating man comes charging back in to wreak havoc on her emotions once again. And in typical Connor fashion, he has yet another proposal for her. But instead of a wild and fast fling, he’s proposing…forever.
Brian’s not giving her up without a fight. Normally the tame one of the pair, Brian is holding nothing back in the battle for Abby’s heart. He has a decade-long head start in knowing and loving everything about Abby—but is that enough to break the intense hold his brother has on her heart?
In this third and final book in the Nice Girl to Love series, Abby must decide once and for all between the bad boy wanting to start a life with her and the good guy fighting for the life they’ve already built.
Print Length: 151 pages (Based on paperback edition, available August 2013)
Note: This is Book Three, the series finale of a three-book serial romance series.
EDICATION
To all my readers. You are just the best fans an author could ask for.
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HAPTER
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“
C
ONNOR
.
”
Abby wasn’t sure if she’d actually said his name out loud, or if he was even standing there, really. But when a few quick blinks confirmed the latter, she repeated the former. Just in case.
“God, I’ve missed hearing you say my name in that sexy voice of yours.”
What
was
it with the Sullivan brothers and her voice?
She took a wary step back when he entered her office fully. “Why are you—” The rest of her words got wedged in her throat. Because he’d finally lowered that gigantic flower arrangement he was holding so she could see him now, closer than he’d been to her in months. Close enough for the full impact of his presence to hit her like a wrecking ball. Close enough for her to see his ice blue gaze darken, lock on her eyes, then dip down to her lips.
And linger. As if he just couldn’t help himself.
She’d never felt so thoroughly kissed from a single glance before.
“You defended your dissertation today,” he replied to her unfinished question. “I’ve...been having my mom keep tabs on you for me.”
He has?
Well that would explain all the probing, borderline invasive discussions Helen had pulled her into over the past few months.
His eyes crinkled at the corners. “So how does it feel to be
Dr.
Bartlett now?” He sounded so affectionately proud, his voice just as heart-grabbingly rough and intense as she remembered. And fight it though she did, Abby found herself being transported back six months. As if he’d never left.
As if things had never ended between them.
“What the hell are you doing here?”
Abby’s heart dropped down into her stomach. Guilt speared through her as she looked over Connor’s shoulder at Brian standing in the doorway looking equally angered, betrayed, and…hurt.
“This is what you do after I bare my soul to you?” growled Brian, blasting the full force of his anger over at Connor, while leaving just the raw pain for the brief look he cast Abby’s way.
Connor frowned. “What are you talking about?”
“You told me to call you when…” Brian’s eyes flickered in Abby’s direction before returning to glare back at Connor. “I couldn’t get a hold of you so I left you a voicemail.”