Smooth Moves

Smooth Moves
Carrie Alexander

Legendary bad-boy Zack Brody comes home and the women of Quimby are on the warpath. The charming rogue has broken every heart in town…except one. Newcomer Cathy Timmerman is just the bait they need to get even–they'll give her a sexy makeover, help her seduce Zack and then, according to plan, she'll dump him in the most embarrassing way possible.But Cathy has a secret–she's no stranger to Zack Brody. In fact, she probably knows him better than any other woman in Quimby. And so the seduction goes very wrong… or possibly very, very right.

“What did you see?”

Cathy blushed, coming across a tad too indignant for a woman who was half out of her bra.

“I saw everything.” Zack’s lips grazed her tilted chin, followed the line of her neck to her delicate collarbone. “I saw these.” He closed both hands over her breasts, kneading until an arousal nearly as hot as his own was radiating from her in shimmering waves. “I saw you.”

She gave a deep sigh and leaned against him, her body lax. “Kiss me again,” she said, parting her lips and cutting the last string of his control.

With a groan, he covered her mouth with his and ground his body against hers.

“I can’t take this,” he said, wrenching away. “Either we go home now or wind up flat on the dirt floor.”

She glanced down, then lifted her gaze to his. “I guess I’m too practical not to prefer a bed.”

He pressed his fingertips to her swollen lips. “Then hold that thought,” he said, silently thankful that he still had the Jaguar parked outside.

Zero to ninety in a matter of seconds sounded almost fast enough….

Dear Reader,

Remember your first crush? Maybe it was on Davy Jones or Kevin Bacon or Brad Pitt. And maybe it was on the cutest, most popular boy in the fifth grade….

Cathy Timmerman remembers her first crush, Zack Brody. And when she returns to the town where they first met, she learns that he’s grown up even better than she’d imagined—in fact, the man is a legendary Romeo! It turns out that a group of Zack’s old girlfriends are looking for a woman to give the “Smooth Operator” a taste of his own medicine. Cathy—no longer the chubby social outcast—finds herself volunteered. But can she really seduce Zack…and then leave him? Especially when he’s even better in person than in her dreams?

Happy reading!

Carrie Alexander

P.S. Please let me know if you liked Zack and Cathy. You can write to me in care of Harlequin or by e-mail at www.tempationauthors.com.

Books by Carrie Alexander

HARLEQUIN TEMPTATION

536—FANCY-FREE

598—ALL SHOOK UP

689—BLACK VELVET

704—A TOUCH OF BLACK VELVET

720—BLACK VELVET VALENTINES

HARLEQUIN DUETS

25—CUSTOM-BUILT COWBOY

32—COUNTERFEIT COWBOY

38—KEEPSAKE COWBOY

Smooth Moves

Carrie Alexander

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Contents

Prologue (#u80e06c65-e80a-5ac3-9aaa-2512c2fa5223)

Chapter 1 (#u142a298c-c120-50ac-bc2c-84108d51f303)

Chapter 2 (#u3c304be3-44cf-51e3-9384-bd55e82bc9ae)

Chapter 3 (#u223956c4-8196-5b84-9978-b7b98782d007)

Chapter 4 (#u85829a14-1bb2-54fb-aa7d-d417b3338f3c)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue

FOR SUCH AN ordinary middle-American town, Quimby had its share of legends. There was the ghost who haunted the clock tower of the old stone courthouse. There was Eunice LaSalle, the 1962 prom queen who’d gone to Hollywood and costarred in an Elvis beach flick. Reputedly, a monster muskie lived in Mirror Lake and nibbled on the toes—or various other bobbing appendages—of unwary skinny-dippers. And on one unforgettable night in 1985, the Quimby Kingpins had beaten the Buxton Bluejackets with a half-court lob at the buzzer, 53 to 52.

Then there was Heartbreak.

Zachary “Heartbreak” Brody, aka The Smooth Operator.