#tuesdaytease 12.17.24
So this one is from my next HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER book that is releasing on 4.7.25…
Blurb:
Third-generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.
All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful, is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.
Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.
Which she isn’t.
Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.
Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.
He couldn’t have heard her correctly.
Date? The two of them? Like as in date-date? That made no sense.
She was his matchmaker. The person he’d hired to find him a wife, not be a- potential – one.
Before he could say anything, she added, “Not for real, I mean. That would be unethical and I’m certain would get me kicked out of the Matchmaker’s club.”
His brow creased. “There’s a Matchmaker’s club?”
Flipping a hand carelessly in the air, she rose, saying, “Professional ethics,” as if that explained anything. “I think we should go on a fake date or two.”
Hunter shook his head, still trying to get around the fact she wanted them to date.
Fake date? Just what the hell was that?
“Now,” she crossed to her desk and lifted her table, tapped it a few times, then brought it back to the couch, reading. “When you filled out the intake questionnaire for me you indicated you enjoyed winter sports, which is good since you live here and winter’s nine months of the year in a good year.” She grinned across to him. “But you also stated you’re open to trying new things as long as they don’t involve potentially hazardous outcomes.” She lifted her gaze again. “Give me a for instance.”
He blinked a few times. Was she seriously just leaving him hanging with no explanation about the two of them dating statement?
“What do you mean, fake date?”
Liv pulled her bottom lip under her top teeth, her gaze dropping down to her tablet for a moment before rising again and connecting with his. “It wouldn’t be a real date, not in the true sense of the word and the outcome. It would be more an educational experience, from a professional perspective. We’ll pretend to be on a date and you act like you would on a real one.”
“Why?”
“Why?”
“Yes, why, Olivia. Why would we go on a date, fake or real, for educational purposes, which, by the way, I can’t even imagine the meaning of?”
Her smile bloomed quick and bright for a moment he lost his train of thought.
“I see. Well, what I mean about educational purposes is that doing this will allow me to see and evaluate how you interact when you’re on a real date. Understand?”
He cocked his head. “Why do you need to…evaluate me? You said I wasn’t the problem.”
She took a breath and he wondered if she was trying to measure her words so they’d be diplomatic.
Who was he kidding? Of course she was.
PERFECT MATCH Liv and Hunter, Book 3 in Heaven’s Matchmaker is up for preorder right now, right here
