Weiber on the Rocks: Cosmopolitan zum Frühstück / Shake it, Baby

by Alison Kent

1. Wer mixt Chloe den perfekten Lovecocktail? Sie probiert alle durch, bis sie bei dem attraktiven Barkeeper Eric fündig wird: zwei Schuss Sex-Appeal, ein Spritzer Geld, mit Lust und Leidenschaft großzügig auffüllen. Und dann: Zu zweit um Mitternacht eiskalt on the Rocks genießen!

2. Chloes Freundin Melanie ist sauer: Jacob hat von ihr auf einer Party ein echtes Zickenvideo gemacht. Doch Melanies Rache ist süß: Sie schickt ihm ein Video, auf dem sie einen heißen Striptease vorführt shake it, Baby und bevor die letzte Hülle fällt, wird der Bildschirm schwarz. Aber Jacobs freche Antwort auf ihre erotische Provokation lässt nicht lange auf sich warten ...

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

I often read of or hear about authors who knew they were meant to tell stories from the time they left the crib. Me? I didn't decide what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was thirty years old - and then sold my first book at thirty-four. Still, it was obvious that I always knew I was going places.

Like so many other authors, I was a voracious reader from day one, devouring everything from Nancy Drew to My Friend Flicka, which I remember sitting hovered over the heater vent in the kitchen floor to read while my father made his coffee.

I moved on to my mother's Phyllis Whitney, Dorothy Eden, and Mary Stewart gothics before discovering my first true romances written by Lucy Walker and set in the Australian Outback. And then, at last, when I was 18 I found 'The Flame and the Flower'. (My son almost spent his life as Brandon because of that, but I spared him and named him Casey instead!)

Why write romance? Because love stories have always been a major part of the books I've loved. Father Ralph and Meggie Cleary. (I did name my daughter Megan after reading The Thorn Birds! Do you see a trend here?) The aforementioned Brandon Birmingham and Heather Simmons. Wolf Mackenzie and Mary Potter.

Even more so, it's because I love writing romance heroes. The men who sweep both heroines and readers off their feet - not to mention their authors, too!

I've spent several years happily writing action adventure romance for Kensington Brava along with hot and sexy series romances for Harlequin Blaze. Now I'm thrilled to be a launch author for Vows.