Opposites united in their disenchantment with life are pushed
together in a cross-country drive where they discover that sometimes the long
way home is the only way to go in Remaking Ryan by Jacie
Floyd.
Author:
Jacie Floyd
Series:
The Billionaire Brotherhood #3
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Pub.
Date: January 4, 2016
ISBN:
978-1523255368
Synopsis:
In Book Three of the Billionaire Brotherhood, Ryan Eastham
appears to have it all—fame, fortune, and legendary good looks—but injury has
ended his high-profile professional football career and he’s at loose ends.
After years of living, breathing, and training for football, he’s searching for
something meaningful to do with his future. He expects nothing but boredom from
the on-air sports announcer job he’s been offered, and his so-called love life
is more tabloid fiction than fact.
Due to the shattering betrayal of her late husband, Jenna
McCall is wary of men and their meaningless promises. Isolating herself from
friends and family while she reexamines her goals and dreams, her baby daughter
is her sole focus. Ryan’s unscheduled intrusion into her life leaves her
irritated, edgy, and a little intrigued.
Family commitments throw this pair together as reluctant
companions on a cross-country drive from Massachusetts to Missouri. Despite a
wrong turn, stolen car, and fussy baby, they find unexpected pleasure in one
another’s company. Amid wedding chaos and intense family drama in St. Louis,
they each proceed with plans to start new careers in different parts of the
country, but their attraction continues to build. When it’s time to say
good-bye, Ryan challenges Jenna to remake their lives and plan a future
together instead.
Excerpt from REMAKING RYAN
“Zoey? Baby?” Ryan mumbled, snagging
Jenna’s wrist and pulling her forward.
Caught off-guard, she found herself
breast to chest with an implacable male form for the first time in eleven
months, two weeks, and three days. Not that she was counting.
Before she could spring away, his
other hand burrowed into the hair at the nape of her neck and turned her face
toward his. It happened so swiftly that she didn’t—couldn’t—react fast enough to
evade the maneuver. Unwelcome goose bumps quickstepped down her spine.
Her first thought was that he
smelled male, woodsy, and slightly medicinal—like the great outdoors infused
with a hint of anesthesia.
But then, along with the shock of
having her chest pressed against his, came the panicky sense of suffocation.
His breath mingled with hers. Sweat beaded her forehead. For a second, she
couldn’t breathe. Her eyes crossed at the nearness of his mouth, just inches
away. Before his lips touched hers, she pinched his nose between her fingers
and twisted. Hard.
“Oww!”
Jerking back, he somehow clipped her
mouth with his chin. Jenna’s incisor sliced into her lip. She yelped and tried
to escape his grip, but his fingers remained firmly clasped around her wrist. His
arm muscles bunched with all the expected strength of a professional athlete.
If he chose to, he could sail her across the room like a Frisbee. Luckily, he
didn’t.
Squinting at her, confusion clouded
the depths of his silvery gray eyes until the puzzlement cleared. He nodded in
recognition.
“Jenna.” The word held a whisper of
accusation, low and pulsing. He rubbed his chin. “That was uncalled for.”
“No kidding.” She wiped her mouth
with the back of her hand. “Dang, I think I’m bleeding.”
“Here,” he said, lifting a corner of
the sheet to dab her lip.
“No, thanks.” She held up her hand
to block the gesture, plucked tissues from the box on the bedside table, and
passed him one. “You don’t have any infectious diseases, do you? STDs?
Anything?”
“Clean as a rookie at his first
training camp.”
“Good, ‘cause you’re bleeding, too.
I hope we haven’t mixed and mingled bodily fluids. Blot your chin,” she
instructed, but sat on the edge of the bed and did it for him. “Didn’t anyone
teach you to look before you kiss?”
“Must’ve missed that lesson when my dad was teaching me the
exact opposite.” Covering his mouth with his free hand, he yawned so wide his
jaw cracked. “Why are you here? Someone send you on a little guilt trip?”
Like most writers, I’ve always been an avid reader. I always
knew I wanted to write, too, but I kept that tidbit to myself for a very long
time. What does a reader who secretly wants to write do? She works in a
library. My very first job, and maybe my favorite, was in my hometown public
library. I loved everything about the grand old building and was fascinated by
the people who came and went every day. But mostly, I loved the books. Seeing
them, handling them, checking them in and out, shelving them, and, of course,
reading them. To have access to books that contained so much knowledge,
history, and tradition was a pleasure that never grew old.
In my spare time through the next few years, I continued
reading and began learning how to write. I accumulated stacks of completed
manuscripts and an increasing determination to get them published. Happily, my
sixth full-length novel has just been released. I would describe my books as
fresh, flirty, and fun contemporaries about strong women and men who deal with
relatable situations in familiar settings. They’re also emotionally rewarding
with a liberal helping of humor, because, really, what point is there to life
without laughter?
After living my childhood and adult life in a variety of
Midwestern cities, I was always an island girl at heart, yearning for white
sands, perpetual sunshine, and crystal blue waters. This past year I turned
that dream into reality by abandoning my snow shovel along with my day job and
moving to Florida to write full-time. The view from my lanai is great, the
wildlife is interesting, and my handsome and heroic husband handles all of my
IT issues and regularly prods me to interact with actual living, breathing
people, not just the ones I invent and put on the page.
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