The Hot Corner (35 page)

People don’t get a lot of second chances in life. We did. I got him to fall in love with me again, and to forgive me for the time I robbed from us. We found each other once more, because Brad chose to swing for the fences.

We both come away from this experience stronger than we’ve ever been, with a child on the way. We’re a true family at last. I’ll forever be grateful for the day Brad turned on the television, saw me, and decided to get the answers that had evaded us both for all these years. Those answers lie between these pages, and I hope you enjoy being a part of our journey and getting to know the man I call my best friend, the love of my life, the champion, and my husband. He’s the most incredible man I know, and I’m honored to tell his story.

Brad turned to me, his eyes shining. “That’s beautiful, Red. Thank you.”

I cuddled into him. “It’s me who should be thanking you for taking me back. I love you.”

“Baby, I love you, too. I’d go through those seven years without you again and again, as long as this is what I get in the end.”

“Me, too.” That was just it. We were where we belonged. There’d been two strikes against us, but we’d swung for the fences and hit a home run.

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Also by Amy Noelle

Code Red
- After getting hurt in college by a gorgeous man, Nicole Magette vowed never to risk losing her heart again. Now she lives a structured and satisfying life. Her work is easy, her friends are her family, and the only consistent men in her life are her two cats, Winchester and Huntington Peabody the Third. She doesn't date, and she hooks up only with losers—men she has absolutely no risk of falling for. But if she finds herself in danger, she has her old failsafe in place—the Code Red.

In college, she and her four best friends came up with the system as a way to keep away the good-looking bastards that might worm their way past their carefully constructed walls. Seven years later, three of her friends have succumbed to their last Code Reds and are happily married. Now it’s just Nicole and her closest friend, Jen, who are still on their own, and Nic is just fine with that.

That is, until Joshua Daniels is transferred to Nicole’s office from New York and assigned to work with her on a special project. He's everything she's avoided and everything she claims she doesn't want, so why can’t she get him out of her mind? He's persistent, dangerously handsome, and sexy as sin. In other words, he’s her worst nightmare. She turns to her friends to help her resist Josh’s considerable charms and the inescapable draw she feels every time she gets near him. Can the Code Red save her this time, or will Josh send her perfectly balanced life into chaos?

Praise for
Code Red
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"The whole dynamic of this book is awesome between the relationship Nicole has with her girlfriends and the relationship with Josh this story is a winner.. Seriously funny, witty and incredibly sexy. I was entertained so much I laughed out loud so many times it was refreshing"  - Melissa -
Just One Opinion Blog

"I think I liked this book so much becuase it reminded me of something me and my friends would do.  I totally identify with Nicole, like in we were seperated at birth, except for the cats." -
www.armywifemb.blogspot.com

"First of all, I think that the "Code Red" idea was very imaginative and the author did a great job of showing how past betrayals can influence us and our decisions for a long time. The romance develops at a nice pace even though the attraction is there from the get-go.  The characters are well developed and engaging." - Cami -
My Addiction is Reading Blog

About the Author

Amy Noelle is a thirty-something single woman with three cats. Though she contends that she is not a crazy cat lady, she freely admits to being a crazy football fan. You can find her glued to the couch every fall weekend, cheering on her Seminoles and Buccaneers.

After attending Florida State University for two years, she transferred to Northern Illinois University and graduated in 1997 with degrees in Journalism and Political Science.

She was born in the Azores Islands, Portugal, and lived as a military brat from the west coast to the east coast of the United States, though she’s found her permanent home in Tampa, Florida, for the last decade.

Besides football and writing, her other loves are television, movies, the beach, thunderstorms, and her family and friends.