Today we have a smooch from Melanie Milburne ---- but first
... the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is Tammy.....
Can you please contact Lousia George on louisageorgeauthor(at) gmail (dot) com to receive your copy of Her Client From Hell.........
And now for today's Sunday Smooch from Flirting With The Socialite Doc by Melanie Milburne........
GP Lady Isabella Courtney has fled
to a remote Australian town to mend her broken heart. But keeping a low profile
isn’t easy when she mistakes the local cop for a stripper! Zach
Fletcher is back in Jerringa Ridge to take care of his injured father.
And, although Izzy might be an unwanted distraction, Zach soon finds himself
flirting with trouble!
Set Up -Isabella is at the Police Station, believing Zach may have been hurt during an interaction at the local pub. He’s not happy to see her but she forces him to sit down so she can have a look at his wound. He sits reluctantly and she stands between his legs to tend to the cut on his cheek.
Kiss....
He
looked at her mouth and her belly did a little somersault as she saw the way
his eyes zeroed in on it, as if he were memorising its contours. ‘This is a
really dumb idea.’
‘It
is? I mean, yes, of course it is,’ Izzy said a little breathlessly. ‘An
absolutely crazy, dumb thing to do. What were we thinking? Hey, is that a
smile? I didn’t think you knew how to.’
‘I’m
a little out of practice.’ He brought her even closer, his warm vanilla and
milk-scented breath skating over the surface of her lips. ‘Isn’t there some
rule about doctors getting involved with their patients?’
‘I’m
not really your doctor. Not officially. I mean I treated you, but I came to see
you. You didn’t come to see me. It’s not the same as if you’d made an
appointment and paid me to see you. I just saw you as a one off. A favour if
you like. It’s not even going on the record. All I did was put a steri-strip on
your head. You could have done it yourself.’ She took a much-needed breath.
‘Um… you’re not really going to kiss me,
are you?’
His
grey-blue eyes smouldered. ‘What do you think?’
Izzy couldn’t think, or at least not once his
mouth came down and covered hers. His mouth was firm and warm and tasted of
salt and something unexpectedly sinful. His tongue flickered against the seam
of her mouth, a teasing come-play-with-me-if-you-dare gesture that made her
insides turn to liquid. She opened her mouth and he entered it with a sexy
glide of his tongue that made the hairs on her scalp stand up on tiptoe, one by
one. He found her tongue with devastating
expertise, toying with it, cajoling it into a dance as old as time.
Flirting With the Socialite Doc is available in April 2014.
To connect with Melanie visit her website here...
To go into the draw to win a copy of Flirting With The Socialite Doc, please leave an answer to this question ......What is your most embarrassing faux pas?
Come back next Sunday, when the winner of today's giveaway will be announced and a smooch from Jacqui Jacoby will be posted!
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Much as I would like to win and, of course, read this book, I will not post any examples for you. It's one of the reasons I'm not on Facebook: TMI! I don't want anything "most embarrassing" noted on the Internet. It's bad enough that *I* know and remember....
ReplyDeleteSo ... my answer to your question is "No comment."
Don't worry, Jan, I have a few of those moments I'd rather not go public too!
DeleteMelanie
ReplyDeleteWhat a great smooch I am so looking forward to reading this one :)
Now I am going to have to think very hard on this question things like this I normally put way back in a corner and try very hard to forget LOL
Have fun
Helen
Hi Helen,
DeleteMaybe I should have asked a less confronting question!
Hi Melanie, and welcome to the LoveCats DownUnder.
ReplyDeleteI love the sound of this story. I can see all sorts of interesting possibilities with these two!
As for my most embarrassing faux pas, possibly the time I was at dinner in a guesthouse and we were discussing the cost of vegetables. I referred to the cost of chokos, suggesting it was outrageous they were actually sold for money (I've disliked the humble choko since I was a child), only to discover that the man I was talking to was the biggest commercial producer of them in Australia! Fortunately he had a sense of humour (and his wife hated them too).
Annie, you had me laughing out loud. I love chokos but they used to be like a weed where I grew up. How funny!
DeleteWow, wonderful smooch, Melanie.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, embarrassing faux pas! When I was quite young, I asked a lady when her baby was due. She said 'I had that baby a month ago!' At that moment I understand the expression 'wanting the floor to open up and swallow me'.
Hi Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI've done the same thing! But mine was a little more embarrassing. I asked a really slim girl with a pot belly when her baby was due and she wasn't pregnant. I was so embarrassed. I thought later she might find out she was!
Love the intro, Melanie. Who can resist a male stripper?
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassing moment - offering to get off the boat and tie up. The water was so clear the bottom looked only a couple of feet deep. When I stepped in the water was well over my head. Great entertainment for all on board, and I've never been allowed to forget how I had t be dragged back on the boat.
Great having you here, Melanie.
Hi Sue! Great story! Boats are full of pitfalls. I've missed the jetty a few timed when we've come in to tie up.
DeleteLovely to be here amongst friends. x
Loved the smooch...and that she thought he was a male stripper. LOL
ReplyDeleteWell, after I'd had my 2nd son (11 months after the first) I laughingly told my MIL that I figured you lose half your brain with each child. ;) I wondered why she didn't laugh along with me. It wasn't until after she'd left that I realized she had 4 children. O-o Thank goodness she (still) loves me.
Marcy Shuler
Hi Marcy,
DeleteI bet you're the most wonderful DIL so how could she not love you? I say to people our boys have their father's brain. I've still got mine! He he
I'm just terrible with names & faces. I have been known to tell complete strangers some personal news because they looked vaguely familiar.
ReplyDeleteSo then I go the other way & ignore people altogether.
It's a nightmare. I should not be let out in public.
Hi Mary, I know the feeling. I've become really bad at remembering people's names. I used to be brilliant at it. I don't know what's happened. Age?!! Thanks for posting.
DeleteLove that Smooch, Melanie! And looking forward to reading that scene where Isabella mistakes Zach for a male stripper! What a hoot!
ReplyDeleteMost embarrassing faux pas - soooooo many to choose from! Open mouth, change feet - that's me... or it used to be! Oddly enough, a moment that pops to mind is when I met my dh many years ago - I was making some general comments about star signs and more specific (and negative) negative observations about Leo men. Then I noticed the strange look on his face - naturally, he's a Leo, isn't he!
Hi Sharon,
DeleteHow funny about your husband. I'm glad it didn't stop him!
The stripper scene is based on a real occurrence. I read about it in a tiny snippet of news in the paper a year ago. In the NT the police were called to a rowdy hen's party and the tipsy women thought they were strippers. I stored it away so I could use it.
Melanie, that book sound like a whole heap of fun!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I've made so many faux pas over the years, but now you're asking for an example I can't think of a single one! I must have buried them well enough. ;)
Hi Rachel,
DeleteI can't imagine someone as nice as you ever getting a foot wrong.
Looking forward to ths read!
ReplyDeleteHi Zana,
DeleteThanks for posting! I hope you enjoy the book.
Can't think of any
ReplyDeleteHi bn100,
DeleteThanks for posting. I wish I could forget some of mine!
Flirting With The Socialite Doc sounds great! Biggest was going into a furniture store and telling them the footrest doesn't have a handle to put the footrest up.
ReplyDeleteAfter I finally got done complaining, they showed me it was between the armrest and cushion. Boy I felt dumb!!
Hi Cindy,
DeleteI've done things like that! Isn't it embarrassing? I need to learn to read the interactions. One of my sons is always lecturing me about that.
I've had a lot of red faced moments over the years. I have a foot in mouth problem that is unsolvable. I've also tripped and fallen a few times. The last time was over a crack in the sidewalk and I broke my glasses and required seven stitches in my left eyebrow. The hard part was I kept having to tell all the health care workers my story as they had to be assured that my poor husband wasn't responsible for the cut. I also have a bad habit of leaving my purse behind.
ReplyDeleteLove the snippet and I'm looking forward to reading the book.
A bit off the topic but I have to tell you how much I enjoyed Those Scandalous Caffarellis. I love all three books.
Hi Kaelee,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting off topic! You've made my day.
I hear you on the injury thing. All those stitches would take a lot of explaining. You poor thing! You must have fallen so heavily.
I am reading 'Flirting with the Socialite Doc' and enjoying it so much! Horrid faux pas? Walking through the city while my apparently unzipped handbag emptied itself out all over the footpath! A woman tapped me on the shoulder and said 'You're leaving a trail of lippy on the street, love.' There were other things too. My stomach still turns when I think about it! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Ella,
DeleteAck! I can just imagine.
So glad you're enjoying Zach and Izzy. I've got your book The Paris Time Capsule waiting on my Kindle to read over Easter. I can't wait!
Ooh, this looks like a lot of fun, Melanie! Loved the excerpt. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, I make so many faux pas it's hard to keep track of them all. I have this dreadful tendency when I'm walking around my local shopping centre of thinking about my current work in progress and suddenly chortling when a plot idea occurs to me. I'm sure everyone down there thinks I'm quite mad. ;-)
Hi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to that! Some of the best lines of dialogue come to me at odd moments. Funny how the writer's mind works, isn't it?