Enchanting Reviews

A Little Bit of Lust

by Shirley Goldberg

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GENRE: Romantic, Women's Fiction

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BLURB:

Love-cynical Lucy Bernard delights in her independence. Baking, all things Instagram, the occasional fling, and most of all hanging out with best friends Deon Goldbloom and Phoebe Karis. But when Deon kisses Lucy at the beach on a chilly afternoon, the two friends jump into a lust-filled romantic weekend. So what’s with slotting her into "ignore" status afterward? Too embarrassed to confide in Phoebe, she silently buries the humiliation.

Deon Goldbloom is a widower who can’t move on after his wife's death. Is he a little crazy spending a sexy few days with Lucy and calling it the best time he’s had in four years? Yeah. Except blue Monday comes calling, and Deon isn’t ready for the guilt.

Lucy wonders how a smoochy weekend turns into a friends-with-benefits disaster. And Deon wonders if he’s made the biggest mistake of his life. Using all his nerdy charms, he launches a campaign to bring Lucy around. Maybe they can chart a course back to one another if Lucy will only forgive him.

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EXCERPT:

“Blimey,” Lucy said out loud to the dressing room walls, channeling Eliza Doolittle. She turned her back and grinned over her pink shoulder. Then her best Queen Elizabeth right out of The Crown. “Philip? What do you reckon?”

She slipped on the dress, clingy in all the right places.

“How is it?” Deon called from outside the dressing room. “Sashay on out here.” She burst through the swinging door and twirled in front of him gripping the pink top in her hand.

“I love them both.” She felt her excitement transfer to Deon.

“Then take them both.” He stared approvingly, broke into a smile when she caught him.

“Thanks, I will.” Which to wear on my Marcus date?

“Just don’t wear––” His eyes clouded. “Never mind.”

“What?”

He didn’t finish his thought, gazed past her. “It’s perfect. Take it.” He slid closer and hugged her, right there in the middle of the missy department. “You…look great.”

“Thanks.” She inhaled the familiar scent of Deon, soap and that unidentifiable man smell, a tad rattled by Deon’s obvious enjoyment of the mall experience. She usually needed a tractor to get him anywhere near a mall. What was with all the…enthusiasm?

“You hungry? I could eat a whole goat.”

“Starving. Please, no goats.” Lame.

“And we’ve got to deliver your cheesecakes. Let’s go to Branford for dinner.”

“Fine. We can see if Phoebe is free when we drop off the desserts.” Lucy headed into the dressing room.

“No. Just the two of us,” Deon called.

REVIEW

Lucy & Deon

He is a widow and she is an independent woman. These two collide in the best and the worst way. After they get together she feels like things shouldn't have happened and he wants more.

I thought these two were just so very perfect together. The push & pull that they went through made for a great story as well as the banter they share. They were passionate and so very enjoyable. This is a new author for me and I will definitely be reading more. A hit for me!

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Shirley Goldberg is a writer, novelist, and former ESL and French teacher who’s lived in Paris, Crete, and Casablanca. She writes about men and women of a certain age starting over. Her website http://midagedating.com offers a humorous look into dating in mid-life, and her friends like to guess which stories are true. A Little Bit of Lust is her third book in the series Starting Over, although all her books are standalone. Her character believes you should never leave home without your sense of humor and Shirley agrees.

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