Stephanie Brother's Blog - Posts Tagged "grumpy-sunshine"

I’m so excited to announce my new release, Four Tattoos.

The heroine, Rose, never expects to fall for four gruff tattoo artists, but attraction can be unpredictable—and undeniable.

Here’s more info about the new book:

Falling for four gruff tattoo artists is unexpected…getting pregnant is catastrophic.

I'm the girl everyone looks to for a sunny comment and a bright smile. That’s why my attraction to four older ex-military men with silver in their hair and dark ink all over their muscular bodies comes as a complete surprise.

We have nothing in common, but I'm putty in their experienced hands.

Lion-hearted Hutch always thinks he knows best, so why do I have the urge to kiss the scowl right off his face?

Mace is restless and ready to go where life takes him. He shows me things I’ve never seen and makes me feel things I’ve never felt.

Temperamental Christian is an exceptional artist and often gets lost in his work, but when he turns his soulful eyes on me, he lights me on fire.

Zipper tells me my positivity is naïve, and I argue that his grumpiness is a drag, but he drives me to break every rule and imagine a different life.

They make me feel safe, and the more time I spend with them, the more I start to care. They mark my skin and imprint themselves on my heart…but our fling leads to consequences.

I’m not expecting that the five of us will form a happy little family, but the men deserve to know about their newest creation, and I need to find the words to tell them they're going to be daddies.

My new romantic comedy, Grump and Grumpier, brings the heat and the laughs.

If you read the first book in the series, Two Times the Trouble: A Fake Date Romantic Comedy, you may remember Callie’s roommate Ana. Grump and Grumpier is her story, and it’s a wild ride. Ana loves to read smutty books, and that love of spicy romance impacts her story in multiple ways.

The book kicks off with a hot scene during her job interview with two grumpy CEOs, and you won’t want to miss it!

Instead of describing my work ethic, my voice lowers to a purr, and I say, “Yes, Mr. Bennett. I like to be worked hard.”

Whoooops! How did that slip out?

This is why you shouldn’t read romance books right before a job interview!

The energy in the room shifts immediately. The men still look grouchy, but more in a “you’ve been a bad girl and I need to turn you over my knee” kind of way.

Here’s more about Grump and Grumpier:

My job interview started with two scowls and ended with a bang. Yeah … that kind of bang!

There’s absolutely no way I can accept the position after the jaw-droppingly amazing and completely unprofessional things I did with the two gorgeous but grouchy men who own the buzz-worthy coffee company, Community Bean.

But then they make me an offer I can't refuse: a short-term position, more money than I currently make in an entire year, a fancy management job title, and—oh yeah—a chance to save their sinking business.

Why are they in such desperate need of help? Well, it turns out that Grump and Grumpier are as good at dealing with people as I am with quantum physics—which is to say, not at all.
Derek Brooks is all brooding intensity, with smoldering eyes that short-circuit my brain and a body that fills out custom-made suits so well I'm in danger of becoming dehydrated from constant drooling.

Jansen Bennett’s death-glare has sent multiple employees running for the hills, but for some reason, I’m dying to get behind that scowl, and for him to get behind me, if you know what I mean!

So what’s a girl to do? Take the job, obviously. But, maybe keep the “banging the grouchy bosses” part under wraps. It’s just a fling. A reckless, completely inappropriate, hotter-than-an-extra-spicy-tamale fling, and ninety-nine percent guaranteed to blow up in my face. (There's always a chance that everything will be fine, isn't there?)

But hey, I’ll only be working with them for six months. Surely I can resist falling for two bossy, grumpy, emotionally unavailable men with killer abs and extra large eggplant emojis, right?

…Right?

Grump and Grumpier is a spicy rom com with two hot grumpy bosses and one sunshiney woman who changes their lives, leading to a why-choose style happily ever after.