From award-winning author Erika Kelly
comes her brand new, smoking hot series about four elite athlete brothers
raised in the Tetons by their eccentric, billionaire dad and uncle, The
Bad Boyfriend Series! Don’t miss your chance to meet the sexy and
extreme Fin Bowie! THE WORLD’S WORST BOYFRIEND is now available!
Grab your copy today!
Six years ago Fin Bowie made a decision that cost him the love of his life. Now his ex is coming back to town for her brother's wedding, and he can finally make things right. Except, right before the event, a text he sent goes viral. Overnight, he becomes an international meme. And it's hard to win your woman back when the whole world's calling you The World's Worst Boyfriend.
The last thing on Calliope Bell's mind is getting back with Fin. Not when her life's just gone sideways, forcing her to spend the summer in Calamity, Wyoming. She can't be away from the New York art world this long, so she comes up with the idea to turn the hottest pop culture event of the moment into a museum exhibition.
The two have every intention of avoiding each other--until the county judge sentences Fin to community service...helping her exploit the meme he's trying to make go away.
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EXCERPT
The
sight of Fin Bowie standing in her foyer hit like opening the door to a
surprise party. That disheveled hair and facial scruff, his big, muscular body
and moody expression, made Callie’s heart flip over.
His
black leather jacket hung open, exposing a white V-neck T-shirt. Faded jeans
encased powerful thighs, the frayed hem bunching over black leather boots.
“Hey.”
Did she have to sound so out of breath? Her heart pounded like she’d just been
chased through the woods at night by a bear.
And
it didn’t help that his gaze took a slow roll up her body, from her red-tipped
toes to her bare legs—her upper thighs covered in ruffled cotton sleep
shorts—to the pink long-sleeved T-shirt covering her chest. When he finally
reached her eyes, his nostrils flared, and his expression turned carnal. A zing
of awareness shot through her.
And
then he smiled. And when Fin Bowie smiled it was like the finale of a fireworks
display. “What’s up?” She hated the slight tremor in her voice. Worse, she
hated the fuse he lit inside her.
“Let’s
take a ride. I’ll wait for you in the truck.”
The
last thing she wanted to do was get in that truck with him, but they were going
to work together, so they had to get some things resolved. As she followed him
out the door, she tried to reclaim her composure, but her paralyzed hands
couldn’t grasp it and, as she climbed down the porch steps, the bridge of time
collapsed, plunging her into freefall.
Images
flew at her, immersing her in a tumult of sharp, vivid emotions.
The
thrill of Fin unhinging the basement door she’d locked after he’d told her he
couldn’t go to their junior prom because of his brother’s skiing competition.
So much anger—no, outrage—expressed in a furious fight that had
ended in desperate, raw sex.
The
naughty pleasure of riding him in his truck, her fingers clutching the back of
his seat, her hips slamming down and grinding. That wild imperative to get
closer, deeper, to meld with him.
The
boundless joy as they’d leapt off the cliff together, hands joined, her smile
stretching so wide it felt stupid. Plummeting into ice cold water. And the
indescribable happiness when they’d popped up and reached for each other—her
legs wrapped around his waist, his arms cinching her tightly. She’d never felt
anything like it since.
And
the pure relief of slamming into the wall of Fin’s chest in the hallway after
she’d found out Piglet, her little runt of a mutt, had been struck and killed
by a minivan. The deep satisfaction, when she’d collapsed into his arms, of
knowing her soul had a harbor, and it was Fin Bowie.
He’d
been there for her more times than not, but the times he’d let her down stuck
in her joints like burrs, reminding her with sharp twinges every time she so
much as rolled over in bed.
Blocking
out the good memories had been easy…until she’d come home. Here, they were
everywhere. She breathed them in at night in her childhood bed, and she ate
them for breakfast at the kitchen table.
Fortunately,
when she closed the front door behind her, the cool mountain air rushed over
her skin and snapped her back to the moment. The hints of sage from the
surrounding meadow and smoke from the town’s nightly bonfire woke up her
senses.
It
was okay to remember. Important, actually, because she’d never resolved
anything. She’d just thrown herself into work, into survival mode. Finals,
projects, hurrying to the diner, the bar, racing to get errands done in stolen
moments…all of it had kept her on the run.
She
never would’ve stopped, would she? If Julian hadn’t dumped her, forcing her to
live at home for the summer, she’d still be on the lam from a past that
demanded reconciliation.
She’d
take this ride with Fin, confront the memories, and then she could finally let
them go. Let him go.
She’d
finally be free.
About Erika Kelly
Award-winning author Erika Kelly has been spinning romantic tales all her life--she just didn't know it. Raised on the classics, she didn't discover romantic fiction until later in life. From that moment on, she's been devouring the genre and has found her true voice as an author. Over three decades she's written poems, screenplays, plays, short stories, and all kinds of women's fiction novels. Married to the love of her life and raising four children, she's lived in two countries and seven states, but give her pen and paper, a stack of good books, and a steaming mug of vanilla chai latte and she can make her home anywhere.
