Robyn Amos - Bachelorette Blues

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Excerpt Shayna gunther—mr. Efficiency herself—puts together a list of the most cligible bachelors around 1. The Computer Guy. Smart, hardworking, a successful businessman. Unfortunately, he’s already in love—with himself. Too bad he isn’t sweet and caring like, say, Max Winston. (But then, Max isn’t even on her list.…) 2. Mr. Six-Hundred-Dollar Suit. Very well dressed. Which explains why he got downright nasty when she accidentally dumped an entire strawberry cheesecake on him. Now, Max would just have laughed and helped her clean up the mess. (But maybe Shayna should try to remember that Max is absolutely not on her list.…) 3. The Nightclub Owner. Sophisticated, charming, absolutely nothing wrong with him. (Except that he’s simply not Max “Not-Even-on-the-Gosh-Darn-List” Winston…)

Dear Reader Dear Reader , Chain letters! Don’t you just hate them? Thanks to the joys of E-mail (and most of the time it really is a joy), I seem to receive them on pretty much a daily basis. The worst thing is, I keep getting the same ones over and over. No, I take that back. The worst thing really is that none of them ever come true. I’m still making ends meet but not getting rich, and I certainly haven’t met Mr. Right Luckily for Shayna Gunther, heroine of Robyn Amos’s debut Yours Truly novel, Bachelorette Blues, her chain-letter experience has a happier outcome. She does meet her perfect match—though it takes her a little while to figure that out (Just for the record: I would have recognized him a lot sooner!) After you finish enjoying Shayna and Max’s story, move on to the final installment of Karen Templeton’s fabulous WEDDINGS, INC. trilogy. Wedding? Impossible! turns out not to be so impossible after all, of course. Admittedly, Zoe’s a bit wary of her supposedly perfect blind date, Mike, but who wouldn’t be? (If you say you wouldn’t, you’ve never been on a blind-date disaster!) But pretty soon she’s hooked, agreeing with everyone else’s opinion of Mike—that he’s wonderful—and planning that extremely possible wedding after all Enjoy! And remember to come back next month for two more books all about the fun of meeting—and marrying!—Mr. Right. Yours, Leslie J. Wainger Executive Senior Editor Please address questions and book requests to: Silhouette Reader Service U.S.: 3010 Walden Ave., P.O. Box 1325, Buffalo, NY 14269 Canadian: P.O. Box 609, Fort Erie, Ont. L2A 5X3

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Dedication This book is dedicated to my local RWA chapter, Washington Romance Writers. Their members have proven that, with solidarity, endurance and support, even the worst of luck is only temporary.

Letter from Robyn Amos Letter from Robyn Amos Is it luck or coincidence? You tell me. One week after I came up with the chain letter idea for Bachelorette Blues, I received a chain letter of my own in the mail. Thanks to the immediacy of E-mail, I received countless chain letters while writing this novel. Some promised true love, like the one Shayna receives from her niece; others promised good fortune or wealth. All I know is, I haven’t participated in any of them, and my luck has never been better. Of course, I’m still working on the true love and the wealth. I’m not superstitious…much. I’m a firm believer that if you don’t finish reading the chain letter, it doesn’t count. Fortunately, I’ve never been as clumsy as Shayna, but I wouldn’t mind having her organizational skills to help me balance my full-time job, writing career, friends and family. Maybe I like the concept of Shayna being a life management consultant so much because I need one so desperately. Besides collecting chain letters, while writing this book I went duckpin bowling for the first time, picked up a few new recipes—now I just have to learn to like cooking—and paid homage to my love of chocolate. If you like Shayna and Max’s story, or just want to send me a chain letter—I’m just kidding; no chain letters, please!—contact me at: P.O. Box 7904, Gaithersburg, MD 20898-7904. Robyn Amos

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

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1. The Computer Guy. Smart, hardworking, a successful businessman. Unfortunately, he’s already in love—with himself. Too bad he isn’t sweet and caring like, say, Max Winston. (But then, Max isn’t even on her list.…)

2. Mr. Six-Hundred-Dollar Suit. Very well dressed. Which explains why he got downright nasty when she accidentally dumped an entire strawberry cheesecake on him. Now, Max would just have laughed and helped her clean up the mess. (But maybe Shayna should try to remember that Max is absolutely not on her list.…)

3. The Nightclub Owner. Sophisticated, charming, absolutely nothing wrong with him. (Except that he’s simply not Max “Not-Even-on-the-Gosh-Darn-List” Winston…)

Chain letters! Don’t you just hate them? Thanks to the joys of E-mail (and most of the time it really is a joy), I seem to receive them on pretty much a daily basis. The worst thing is, I keep getting the same ones over and over. No, I take that back. The worst thing really is that none of them ever come true. I’m still making ends meet but not getting rich, and I certainly haven’t met Mr. Right Luckily for Shayna Gunther, heroine of Robyn Amos’s debut Yours Truly novel, Bachelorette Blues, her chain-letter experience has a happier outcome. She does meet her perfect match—though it takes her a little while to figure that out (Just for the record: I would have recognized him a lot sooner!)

After you finish enjoying Shayna and Max’s story, move on to the final installment of Karen Templeton’s fabulous WEDDINGS, INC. trilogy. Wedding? Impossible! turns out not to be so impossible after all, of course. Admittedly, Zoe’s a bit wary of her supposedly perfect blind date, Mike, but who wouldn’t be? (If you say you wouldn’t, you’ve never been on a blind-date disaster!) But pretty soon she’s hooked, agreeing with everyone else’s opinion of Mike—that he’s wonderful—and planning that extremely possible wedding after all

Enjoy! And remember to come back next month for two more books all about the fun of meeting—and marrying!—Mr. Right.

Yours,

Leslie J. Wainger

Executive Senior Editor

Please address questions and book requests to:

Silhouette Reader Service

U.S.: 3010 Walden Ave., P.O. Box 1325, Buffalo, NY 14269

Canadian: P.O. Box 609, Fort Erie, Ont. L2A 5X3

www.millsandboon.co.uk

This book is dedicated to my local RWA chapter,

Washington Romance Writers. Their members have

proven that, with solidarity, endurance and support,

even the worst of luck is only temporary.

Is it luck or coincidence? You tell me. One week after I came up with the chain letter idea for Bachelorette Blues, I received a chain letter of my own in the mail. Thanks to the immediacy of E-mail, I received countless chain letters while writing this novel. Some promised true love, like the one Shayna receives from her niece; others promised good fortune or wealth. All I know is, I haven’t participated in any of them, and my luck has never been better. Of course, I’m still working on the true love and the wealth.