Recently divorced Carissa Blackwell returns to her hometown
and reconnects with her first love Jasper Dumont, while the ubiquitous Bayside
Blogger reports their every move for the town newspaper in this delightful
& playful novel by award-winning romance author Kerri Carpenter.
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About Bidding
on the Bachelor:
Title: Bidding on the Bachelor
Author: Kerri Carpenter
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Publisher: Harlequin Special
Edition
Series: Saved by the Blog #2
Format: Print/Digital
Print ISBN: 9780373623792
Digital ISBN: 9781488079146
Another roll of the
dice
Big news, fair
readers! Bayside High's favorite It Girl is back. Would you have bet Clarissa
Blackwell would ever return? Ten years ago, she crushed Jasper Dumont's heart
under her Jimmy Choos and left town for a bigger, better life. Her return
raises one question: What is she running from (or is it to) now?
Perhaps Jasper knows?
One look at Carissa and he fell in the bay! (Rich, single and devastatingly
handsome, Jasper's our catch of the day.) That icy plunge should have brought
him to his senses, yet "Casper" has been spotted together all over
town. Does this mean Bayside's legendary couple may reunite? The stakes are
high, but the Bayside Blogger's money is riding on love!
Excerpt:
“I’m back in town.”
“For how long?” he asked
quickly, too quickly. In fact, if she wasn’t mistaken, anger laced his
question. She must have reacted to it because his features softened. “Sorry,
it’s none of my business. And I do remember that today is your birthday. So,
happy birthday, Carissa.”
“Thanks,” she said, and
meant it. She decided to offer an olive branch because the truth was that she’d
dumped him and she hadn’t been kind about it. This icy reception she was
receiving was well deserved. While she knew the reasons behind her decision,
she’d never let Jasper in on it. She’d been a bratty, selfish teenager, not
capable of understanding her emotions. Unwilling to admit that Jasper had
always reminded her of her father and that summer her dad had dropped a
bombshell on her.
“I don’t know how long
I’ll be in town. I’m sort of in a transition period right now.” He waited
patiently. After another long drink of beer, she finished. “I just got
divorced.” Saying the words out loud left an awful taste in her mouth. An
acidic aftertaste of yuckiness.
First, shock flashed on
his face. Then, true concern shone in his eyes. “I’m sorry,” he said.
And that might have been
her undoing. Because he had every reason to be stiff and awkward with her.
Instead, any kind of compassion from him loosened her lips.
“Today is my twenty-ninth
birthday. I’m having a beer next to my ex-boyfriend, who hates my guts, in a
dive bar in the town I swore I would never step foot in again. An ex-boyfriend
I should really apologize to because I was an evil witch to him.” The words
were flying now. She gripped her hand tightly around her glass. “I’m not even
thirty and already I’ve been married and divorced. And I got divorced because
he freaking cheated on me.”
She couldn’t miss the way
Jasper’s eyes narrowed, his hands curled into fists, and there was a definite
tic in his clenched jaw. “He cheated on you?”
“Yep. Apparently, the
fact that I was homecoming queen, prom queen and head cheerleader did nothing
to impress him. Or keep his pants zipped up when anyone wearing a skirt in the
Central Time Zone walked by. That probably makes your whole day, doesn’t it?”
He slammed his hand on
the bar and she jumped. But she just as quickly composed herself. “What? You
have every right to revel in my misery after the way I broke up with you. I got
divorced. You win.”
His eyes narrowed. “I
don’t want to win at that game. And I certainly don’t want to hear that some
idiot cheated on you. I’m sorry you’re getting divorced.”
“That makes one of us.”
Copyright © 2017 Bidding on the Bachelor by Kerri
Carpenter
Other Books in the Saved by the Blog series:
Falling for the Right Brother
Saved by the blog!
This just in, fair readers! Chic and stunning,
that gorgeous new woman about town is none other than our very own little
Ellie--now Elle--Owens. She's a far cry from the frumpy, bookish student we
used to know, but then, living in Italy will do that to a girl! Still, this
blogger can't forget the infamous video that caused her to leave!
Apparently Miss Elle has been spotted with
yummy contractor Cam Dumont...but we thought her heart belonged to his little
brother. Are Cam and Elle a new couple? They were seen cooling their passions in
the bay...in April! If this is love, let's hope she's swimming with the right
brother. The Bayside Blogger will keep you posted.
About Kerri Carpenter:
Award-winning
romance author Kerri Carpenter
writes contemporary romances that are sweet, sexy, and sparkly. When she’s not
writing, Kerri enjoys reading, cooking, watching movies, taking Zumba classes,
rooting for Pittsburgh sports teams, and anything sparkly. Kerri lives in
Northern Virginia with her adorable (and mischievous) rescued poodle mix,
Harry. Visit Kerri at her website,
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