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He wanted Candy…
He wanted Candy…
Candy. Candy’s voice. Justin whipped around to stare at his empty doorway.
Then she walked into his room, and he saw immediately that the light tapping footsteps were caused by the same sexy, high-heeled black ankle boots she’d worn the first time he saw her across the street. With the same leg-enhancing sheer black stockings. But instead of the same black miniskirt, today she wore—
He swallowed convulsively. No skirt at all. Just sheer black panties topped by a red lace garter.
Above that a red lace bra trimmed in black, and a red-lipped sultry smile.
“Candy…”
“As sweet as.”
She put her foot up on his bed, heel sharp on his navy quilt. He surveyed the curve of her calf from the boot to her knee, then considered the slope of her inner thigh. His eyes were held hostage and he was speechless.
“Want a taste?”
There was no such thing as too much Candy.…
Dear Reader,
I’ve had my share of online dating experiences, some fun, some boring, some downright bizarre.
I’ve always thought there was room for a service using the convenience and accessibility of online dating, mixed with the personalization of old-fashioned matchmaking.
Milwaukeedates.com was born, and with it, Marie, its intrepid owner, who is determined to find perfect matches for her three female friends and fellow business owners.
In this book, set in Wisconsin’s snowy cold February, Candy is looking for a man to help celebrate her first single Valentine’s Day in a long time. Coming off a relationship with a guy who suppressed her true spirit, she is more than ready to be set free, sexually and emotionally, especially by a guy as magnetic as Justin, who’s new in town from sunny Southern California and looking for any way he can to get warm.
Kim, the shy girl-next-door beauty is next on Marie’s list. Stay tuned for Long Slow Burn out in April, 2011. And keep looking for those perfect matches!
Prologue
“If you ask me, which I know you didn’t, you are ready to date again, Candy.” Marie nodded vigorously, looking around the table for confirmation from Kim and Darcy. The four of them were sitting together, as usual, at the every-third-Wednesday monthly breakfast meeting of Women in Power, Milwaukee’s organization of women business owners, held in a seventh-floor meeting room at the elegant Pfister hotel. “It’s January, the new year, time for a fresh start.”
“I don’t know.” Candy laughed nervously. She had a fresh girl-next-door beauty: heart-shaped face, long chestnut hair, wide-spaced light brown eyes and a generous, smile-prone mouth. If she put up an Available sign, men would kill each other getting in line. “I don’t feel ready.”
“You are, honey.” Marie laid her hand on Candy’s forearm.
Candy had dated Chuck, the world’s biggest wet blanket, for five years before he had dumped her the previous February.
“Trust me. I not only have a degree in psychology, but I am psychic. I had a vision.”
“Huh?” Candy looked startled.
“Wait, really?” asked Kim.
Darcy snorted. “Be serious.”
“Okay, not psychic, but certainly all-knowing.” Marie lifted 8
her chin in mock outrage. “You should show respect for the wisdom of your elders.”
“Oh, what, you’re two years older than I am?” Darcy looked skeptical, as usual. “All of thirty-four?”
“Thirty-nine. Practically old enough to be your grandmother.” No, not quite that old, but Marie felt like a seasoned warrior, having been married ten years and divorced five, while the other three women at the table had never married and were currently single. “I know what I’m talking about.
Candy should be out there dating, and she has the perfect resource in me to get started.”
“That’s for sure.” Sweet, shy Kim Charlotte Horton, the blonde of the group, stifled a yawn, striking blue eyes bleary from her being up all night to meet a particularly tough deadline for her struggling one-woman company, Charlotte’s Web Design. “You are the matchmaking queen.”
Marie agreed cheerfully. After her marriage had tanked and her online dating efforts met with no success, she became determined to create a site that didn’t just take people’s money and then make them do all the work. In five years, her personalized service, Milwaukeedates.com, had gone from the beginning of an idea to one of Women in Power’s Best Success Stories the previous year. Marie was happier than she ever thought would be possible again.
