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Operation: Date Escape

by Lyndsey Brookes

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Since her divorce two years before, Kelsie Collins has been determined to guard her heart and steer clear of seemingly ‘perfect’ men. An easy task considering the kind of men her matchmaking mother and her best friend, Nanci, keeps setting her up with. She allows them to set her up, knowing their hearts are in the right place and that there is no risk of her letting any man close enough to hurt her again. Her growing experience in ways to slip out of those ‘dates from hell’ prompts her to start writing a bad date survival guide. One aptly titled - OPERATION: DATE ESCAPE. And it’s during one of those escapes that sexier than sin firefighter Cole Maxwell comes to her rescue.

Cole isn’t sure what to think when the sexy redhead he’s just ‘rescued’ from a bad date informs him that he’s too ‘perfect’ to date. That’s a first. He’s had relationships end because the women couldn’t handle the risks that go along with his chosen profession, but never because he’s too perfect.

When his crew gets called out to rescue someone who is stuck in a tree, Cole finds himself once again coming to Kelsie’s rescue. This time he’s not about to let her get away without agreeing to give him a chance, even holding her high heels hostage to make it happen. She finally gives in and things heat up between them like a 3-alarm fire. But there’s more than passion between them and Cole sets out to prove to Kelsie that he’s nowhere near ‘perfect’, but he is the ‘perfect’ man for her. Can he get past the wall she’s built up around her heart? Or will he end up being just another chapter in her book of men she ran from?

*Operation: Date Escape was a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart finalist as well as a finalist in the American Title III Competition put on by Romantic Times and Dorchester Publishing.*

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“Hey, I’ve only fixed you up a few times.  Your mother does it all the time.”

“I think she’s going through some sort of mid-life crisis or something.  Only her fear isn’t of getting old.  It’s of never having grandchildren to dote on.  So any single man that crosses her path becomes fair game.”

Nanci laughed.  “Don’t you think that you’re over-exaggerating just a little bit?”

“You think so?  I’m telling you, Nanci, I think my mother is losing it.  She propositioned some guy in the meat market at Kroger the other day.”

“That’s good, isn’t it?  If she’s preoccupied with her own love life—”

“Not for her.  For me!  She asked him if he’d be interested in going out with her single, very attractive, successful daughter.”

“Ah, another prospective blind date to set you up on.”

Kelsie nodded.  “Apparently the guy purchased a couple of really big sausages which my mother took to mean he was both single and sexually confident.”

“How did she come to that conclusion?”

“She assumes all men are big eaters, so two sausages would mean it was going to be dinner for one.  And a man secure in his masculinity wouldn’t have any problem with buying sausages that might give his you-know-what a run for its money size-wise.”   

Beer spurted from her friend’s mouth.  “Oh God,” she choked.

“I know,” Kelsie said, handing her a napkin.  “Can you believe the lengths she goes to find Mr. Right for me?”

“I take it you and the ‘big sausage’ guy have a date set up.”

“Thankfully, no.”

“No?  Let me guess.  The guy was married?”

She nodded, grinning.  “Yeah, and he told my mother his ‘husband’ probably wouldn’t appreciate it.”

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Romance author Lindsey Brookes grew up reading romance novels. She penned her first romance, a historical, at the age of seventeen. From there she went on to join Romance Writers of America where she learned the ins and outs of the publishing business and ways to hone her craft. She switched to writing contemporary romance and has finalled in/or won more than 75 RWA chapter sponsored contests with over a dozen different manuscripts. She is also a four time RWA Golden Heart finalist as well as a past American Title III finalist and winner of Harlequin's Great American Romance Novel contest. She's married to her childhood sweetheart, her hero, with whom she has two beautiful daughters.

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