Published by: CJ Books
Release Date: Coming soon!
Genre: Contemporary

Hazel Kirby’s headed to Australia to finish her postdoctoral research in Marine Biology, helping her advisor study how algae can clean polluted water. It’s six months of all-work-and-no-play, but that’s the story of her life.

Ian Macrorie is a Stanford professor who’s taking his first sabbatical Down Under—a whole year to do nothing but devote his time to researching ocean currents. He can’t wait. When he arrives, he runs into his friend’s postdoc—literally. He sends the poor woman sprawling so she hits her head on a cabinet, and needs to get five stitches.

Other men sweep women off their feet; he knocks them on their asses. Too bad, because she’s pretty, funny, and takes a bad situation in stride. But a childhood stutter made him painfully shy, and pretty women usually leave him tongue-tied.

But running into Hazel at a local bar and sharing a companionable drink shows him just how easy she is to talk to. For someone like him, easy conversation is right next door to miraculous. Could she be any more perfect? So he finds the courage to ask her out, and it’s beyond amazing to find they have the kind of chemistry that scorches.

She’s always heard the quiet ones were the best in bed, but she’s never believed it until now. A week after they started sexing it up, Hazel’s still congratulating herself on deciding to date him. Best choice she ever made. Seriously, how is this man still single? Handsome, smart, gainfully employed. He’s every girl’s Mr. Right. She has a sneaking suspicion he might be her Mr. Right.

But when secrets from Ian’s past show up to spoil their happiness, will they find a way to hold on to love?

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