Jo Leigh - Seduce Me

Trading Card: Max Dorset

Occupation: Lawyer…professional shark

Secret Passion: Good girls with a naughty side!

It’s archivist/movie-buff Natalie Gellar’s very first Hot Guys Trading Card event. And boy, did she luck out. She found a quiet—and smokin’ hot!—librarian looking for marriage. Unfortunately, there was a tiny mix-up at the printer…and aside from the sexy pic, Natalie’s perfect man is everything she doesn’t want!

Max Dorset is a damn good lawyer who has no time for anything that isn’t work. Marriage and relationships? No, thanks. But he offers Natalie a tantalizing temptation. Because even if he isn’t her Mr. Right…he might just be her perfect Mr. Tonight!

“I want to see you… All of you.”

Natalie closed her eyes as her dress fell to the floor with a soft whoosh of fabric.

“Oh, God. Look at you. I never expected—”

She opened her mouth to find Max staring, his lips parted in a very flattering way.

She moved one foot back to take off her heels.

“No, wait. Please. Leave those on.”

She’d wanted new experiences. This definitely met the criteria.

“I know where I’ve seen you before,” he said, his voice very low and rough. “On those pinup posters, with your ruby lips and your luscious curves.”

She froze right there. Just stopped. Her? A pinup? With her plain white bra and panties?

He was the wrong Max, and yet…

There was no longer any need to pretend to feel sexy. Because she was truly feeling sexy. It was intoxicating. Freeing.

No one had ever looked at her that way, with his three undone buttons and his desire-darkened eyes, and she was going to revel in it.

He wanted a show.

So she would give him one….

Dear Reader,

It was so much fun writing Choose Me, Have Me and Want Me, the first three books in the It’s Trading Men! miniseries. I got so many lovely letters and emails about the Hot Guys Trading Cards I had to write more!

In Seduce Me, Natalie Gellar, a film archivist in the East Village of New York, is looking for the right man. She wants to settle down, start a family. She’s got her heart set on a librarian-friendly guy, someone who shares her values and her love of home. She can’t believe her luck when she finds Max Zimm’s Trading Card. He’s not only a librarian, but he loves to cook and his passion is online gaming!

When Natalie finally sees Max’s picture, she nearly passes out. Her nerdy, marriage-minded pick is literally a Hot Guy! He’s tall, has gorgeous eyes and his smile could stop traffic. In person, he’s even hotter.

Too bad the guy on the Trading Card is actually Max Dorset. Attorney. Playboy. One Night Stand.

I love to hear from readers! Visit my website, joleigh.com, and follow me on Twitter (@Jo_Leigh) and at tumblr.com/blog/joleighwrites/.

Look for the next book in the It’s Trading Men! miniseries: Dare Me.

Happy Reading,

Jo Leigh

Seduce Me

Jo Leigh

www.millsandboon.co.uk

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jo Leigh is from Los Angeles and always thought she’d end up living in Manhattan. So how did she end up in Utah in a tiny town with a terrible internet connection being bossed around by a house full of rescued cats and dogs? What the heck, she says, predictability is boring. Jo has written more than forty-five novels for Mills & Boon. Visit her website at www.joleigh.comor contact her at joleigh@joleigh.com.

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To Birgit, who might love New York as much as I do,

and to Debbi Rawlins and Jill Shalvis, my intrepid

(and brilliant) plotting partners!

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Extract

1

“OKAY, LADIES.” Shannon Fitzgerald, the founder of the newest dating trend in Manhattan, had her arms up high, holding an open box. “Are you ready?”

No one answered. In fact, Natalie Gellar was pretty sure no one was even breathing. All twenty-four women in the room were leaning forward, though. Fingers at the ready, hope and anticipation doubling heart rates.

“On your mark...”

Five long utility tables had been pushed together into a rectangle on what was anything but a normal Wednesday evening in the St. Marks Church community room.

“Get set...”

Natalie stood her ground, shoulder to shoulder with the women around her, determined to do whatever was necessary to get the right card, the perfect card. The Hot Guys Trading Card that would change her life.

“Go!”

Shannon tossed the latest batch of cards into the center of the tables and sprinted out of the way.

As if they were attacking the first Black Friday sale table at Barney’s, everyone went nuts.

Natalie grabbed whatever cards she could reach, skimming the writing, ignoring the pictures, tossing lawyers and accountants and musicians away like so much litter. Baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans. Ah, a reader, but crap, not the kinds of books she liked. Again and again, the cards were stirred. She heard squeals, disappointed moans, clapping and apologies as people wrestled for the same cards.

The word librarian made her heart skip a beat, and in the category of Marry, Date or One-Night Stand, his check mark next to Marry made her hands shake. Instead of listing a favorite restaurant, the card said he loved to cook and according to Tracy Jackson, the woman who’d submitted him, he was great at it. His passion was World of Warcraft, which wasn’t her thing but she could totally deal with that. And then, oh, God, the bottom line: looking for a kindred spirit, someone who could be the Lilypad to his Marshmallow!

The reference to the sappy couple on How I Met Your Mother was the best gift ever. Not just because Natalie liked the show but because anyone who thought of himself in film or television terms was exactly the kind of man she was looking for. This was better than she’d hoped for. By a mile.

Now, to turn the card over. To see what Max Zimm looked like.

Her heart pounding after everything she’d read, she tried to calm down. After all, first impressions were as good as meaningless. Most everyone she found beautiful had started out as objectively nothing to write home about, but as she’d gotten to know them, they’d transformed. So even if Max had a handlebar mustache or googly eyes, she didn’t care. At all. It was the inside that mattered, not the packaging.

After a deep breath, she turned the card over. And nearly fainted.

The nerdy librarian was a stunner.

“Who is that?”

Natalie tore her gaze from the picture of Max Zimm to look at her friend Denise. She’d introduced Natalie to the Trading Cards, bless her. “He’s very good-looking, right?”

“Very good-looking doesn’t quite cover it. Can I—”

“No.”

Denise sighed. “Okay. But why did you pick him?”