A woman with garden magic finds out the builder in charge of remodeling
her florist shop is the same man who broke her heart over a decade ago. In spite of best laid plans,
they find themselves falling head over hearts in this whimsical romantic comedy
where opposites attract, sparks fly, and magical mayhem ensues.
Don't Touch My Petunia
The Holloway Girls #2
By Tara Sheets
Releasing September 25th, 2018
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Pine Cove Island is the kind of enchanting place where anything is possible . . .
The Holloway women each have a special gift, passed down through generations, each one a little different. Juliette possesses a magical green thumb, which makes her job managing the local florist shop a dream. She may be a bit wild, but she knows what she wants: to save enough money to buy the shop from her boss. Then in marches Logan O'Connor, more annoyingly handsome than ever, turning all her plans upside down.
Logan hasn't been back on Pine Cove Island since he was eighteen and broke Juliette's teenage heart. Now it turns out he's her boss's nephew--and will be spending his days remodeling the shop and barking orders. At her.
For the sake of the business, Juliette will have to ignore their simmering attraction and work with Logan. But that doesn't mean she has to make things easy for him. Because no one knows better than she that one tiny, perfectly planted bit of garden magic could uproot Logan's own plans and keep him out of her way. And nothing would make her happier. At least that's what she thinks . . .
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In Don't Touch My Petunia (The Holloway Girls #2) by Tara Sheets, Juliette Holloway works hard to save enough money in hopes of buying the shop where she works from her boss when he finally retires. However, it seems Juliette isn’t going to have things as easy as she thought when she learns that her old crush, Logan O’Connor — who just happens to be her boss’s nephew — will be doing the renovations for the store, especially after she begged him to stay years ago. Will Logan be able to convince Juliette to take a chance on him or is Juliette’s cynicism for love and happy ever after too high for her to give Logan a shot? Read More
It was
ten o’clock in the morning by the time Logan strolled in to work. Juliette tried
to tell herself it didn’t matter; his job was his business. But that wasn’t
entirely true. As the standing manager of Romeo’s Florist Shop, it was her
responsibility to oversee everything that went on, which included the business
of Romeo’s slow-moving, swaggering nephew.
“Nice
of you to finally make it in,” she said when he came through the back door.
She’d spent the morning swamped with customers and orders, and in the middle of
it she’d had to deal with Logan’s lumberyard delivery all by herself.
He walked
over to the coffeepot and poured himself a cup from the new machine. His face
looked drawn, and there were dark shadows under his eyes.
Juliette
crossed her arms and opened her mouth to speak, but Logan held up a hand.
“Before
you start,” he said, “you should know that my answer to everything for the next
five minutes is going to be ‘coffee.’”
“You
should know that you’re late,” she tossed back. “We open at eight o’clock
here.”
He
raised his mug in salute and took a sip.
“The
lumber company stopped by this morning at eight-thirty,” she continued, “and
since you weren’t here, they started dumping all the supplies by the front
walkway. And this time, the store was filled with customers.”
Logan
leaned against the counter and regarded her with bloodshot eyes. He took
another slow sip.
“What
is wrong with you this morning?” she blurted. “You look like you drank one too
many shots of tequila last night and had to crawl home on your lips.”
His
mouth lifted at one corner as if he found her amusing.
“It’s
not funny,” she said with growing annoyance. “You’re supposed to be here on
time so you can handle all the remodel stuff.”
He
closed his eyes and rubbed his face with one hand. “A friend kept me up all
night.”
An
image of the pretty blonde from the bonfire flashed across Juliette’s mind.
She’d been wrapped around him like a human pretzel, and it hadn’t seemed to
bother him.
Juliette
bristled. “Look, if you want to party all night long with Suzy Sunshine, go
right ahead. But you’re still expected to show up on time and get some actual
work done here. The rest of us have to do our jobs. I’m sure Romeo wouldn’t be
thrilled to know you were dragging in two hours late on your second day of
work.”
Logan
stopped with his cup halfway to his mouth. “Suzy Sunshine?”
“That
girl from the barbeque.”
He
frowned. “You mean Bella?”
“Whatever.” She wouldn’t know. Because she didn’t care.
“We
weren’t partying,” he said casually. “Not all night, anyway. I wasn’t up for
it.”
She had
the sudden urge to throw something at him. Instead, she smiled sweetly.
“Stamina problems, huh? Not a shocker. It’s your second day on the job and you
can’t even keep up.”
Logan
set his cup on the counter with a thud,
an unspoken challenge in his eyes.
All
Juliette’s nerve endings went on high alert. She suddenly felt like a rabbit in
plain sight of a wolf.
His
gaze slid lazily down her body in a sensual caress, then back up to linger on
her mouth before meeting her eyes. “I have no problems keeping up, Juliette.” He drew her name out on his tongue like he
could taste it. “I’d be happy to prove it to you, if you don’t believe me.”
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TARA SHEETS is an
award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Her work has
earned first place recognition in literary contests nationwide and her debut
novel, Don’t Call Me Cupcake, won the 2016 Golden Heart® award sponsored by
Romance Writers of America®. Tara began her career as an author in the Pacific
Northwest, inspired by the rain and the misty mountains and the rivers of
Starbucks coffee. She now lives in the warm, wonderful South where she
can stand outside with no coat on, and she finds that pretty inspiring too. When not writing, Tara enjoys life with her
book-loving family and a book-eating dog named Merlin. She is represented by
Sarah Phair at Trident Media Group.
