Practice Makes Perfect
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
"When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends to lovers romance begins to bloom-from the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet. Annie Walker is on a quest to...
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"When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends to lovers romance begins to bloom-from the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet. Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match-someone who nicely compliments her happy, quiet life running her flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. Unfortunately, she worries her goal might be too far out of reach when she overhears her date saying she is "sounbelievably boring." Is it too late to become flirtatious and fun like the leading ladies in her favorite romance movies? Maybe she only needs a little practice...and Annie has the perfect person in mind to become her tutor: Will Griffin. Will-the flirtatious, tattooed, and absolutely gorgeous bodyguard-is temporarily back in Rome, providing security for Amelia Rose as excitement grows for her upcoming marriage to Noah Walker. He has one personal objective during his time in town: stay away from Annie Walker. But no sooner than he gets settled, Will soon finds himself not only breaking his rule, but tasked with far more than simply providing security. Will wants no part in changing the sweet and lovely Annie, but he can't bring himself to say no to her request, so he officially agrees to teach her how to be the next leading lady of Rome, Kentucky, and find the love of her life-even if he doesn't believe in love himself. Between faking a relationship so the meddling town doesn't catch on to what's really happening on their practice dates, and tutoring lessons that convince Annie to add passion to her list of must-haves in a mate, it doesn't take long for the lines of their friendship to blur..."--
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Chapter One Annie
I am convinced dating was created by an evil villain to torture humanity. Dramatic? Not in the least. For introverts like me with social anxiety, the process of dating is equivalent to waxing your
bikini line. Menstrual cramps on day two of your cycle. An emergency dental procedure you weren t expecting and guess what: they re fresh out of novocaine.
Again, I m so sorry about the beer, I say to the man sitting across from me.
It s fine, he says in a clipped way that means it s absolutely not fine.
This is not going well. Not that it has ever gone well for me in the past, but this time it really isn t. I think turning a man off in the first ten minutes of a date is my new record. Because John, the man sitting across from me with a sopping-wet, beer-stained polo and khakis from the drink I accidentally knocked across the table onto his lap, looks ready to bolt. Can t blame him.
Why did I think I could do this? It s been years since I dated, and even back then I never liked it much. I m a person who avoids attention at all costs. Who can t think of a single thing to say when a man sitting across from her is intently staring at her.
Again, I ask myself, Why are you here, Annie?!
Oh right. It was the brownie. Well, first it was the realization that even after opening the flower shop my mom had always dreamed of, the nagging something-is-missing feeling still pesters me. So I decided it s time to put a plan in motion to settle down with my perfect someone because that s the only box left unchecked in my life. And since I ve been drooling over John (the man my sisters and I always refer to as Hot Bank Teller), I thought he might be the perfect candidate for the job.
The job in question has very strict criteria based on the bursting-with-love marriage my parents had. One, he must live in town and have roots here in Rome, Kentucky; two, he must
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have a stable job; three, he must be kind and also be supportive of my career; and four, he must want a family.
Those are the only things that matter to me.
So the last time I went to the bank to deposit a check, I used up my Once-a-Year Extroverted Moment and asked him if he d like to go out sometime. He miraculously said yes, and I spent the next week recuperating from the stress and anxiety I suffered in asking.
Anyway, when I proposed meeting somewhere a little outside of Rome to have fresh scenery (and keep our nosy, single-stoplight town out of my business), he suggested Peppercorn, a nice restaurant about thirty minutes away. And when I looked it up, Yelp said this place has an excellent giant brownie. It doesn t get better than that.
The dessert is literally the only reason I m still sitting here on this painfully awkward date.
I wish I could text my sisters right now and ask them what to do. But that requires them actually knowing I m on a date, which would open me up to the sort of attention I ve been trying to avoid.
The very minute my sisters find out about my quest to find a husband everyone else will know too. I would really hate to have Mabel (the woman who s like a grandma to me) attempt to set me up with every eligible bachelor she knows. So I m keeping it a secret like most things in my life.
The only reason I m pushing through my terrible social anxiety now is because I m fully confident that marriage is the Thing that s missing. I wish I could call my parents to get their opinion, but because they died when I was three, that will never be an option. So instead, I m following in their footsteps. Happily married by the age of twenty-eight. That gives me just under a
Those are the only things that matter to me.
So the last time I went to the bank to deposit a check, I used up my Once-a-Year Extroverted Moment and asked him if he d like to go out sometime. He miraculously said yes, and I spent the next week recuperating from the stress and anxiety I suffered in asking.
Anyway, when I proposed meeting somewhere a little outside of Rome to have fresh scenery (and keep our nosy, single-stoplight town out of my business), he suggested Peppercorn, a nice restaurant about thirty minutes away. And when I looked it up, Yelp said this place has an excellent giant brownie. It doesn t get better than that.
The dessert is literally the only reason I m still sitting here on this painfully awkward date.
I wish I could text my sisters right now and ask them what to do. But that requires them actually knowing I m on a date, which would open me up to the sort of attention I ve been trying to avoid.
The very minute my sisters find out about my quest to find a husband everyone else will know too. I would really hate to have Mabel (the woman who s like a grandma to me) attempt to set me up with every eligible bachelor she knows. So I m keeping it a secret like most things in my life.
The only reason I m pushing through my terrible social anxiety now is because I m fully confident that marriage is the Thing that s missing. I wish I could call my parents to get their opinion, but because they died when I was three, that will never be an option. So instead, I m following in their footsteps. Happily married by the age of twenty-eight. That gives me just under a
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Autoren-Porträt von Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams is the author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she loves her family and warm days. Sarah has dreamed of being a writer since she was a girl, but finally wrote her first novel when her daughters were napping and she no longer had any excuses to put it off. Sarah is a coffee addict, a British history nerd, a mom of two daughters, married to her best friend, and an indecisive introvert. Her hope is to write stories that make readers laugh, maybe even cry—but always leave them happier than when they started reading.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sarah Adams
- 2023, 368 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dell
- ISBN-10: 0593500806
- ISBN-13: 9780593500804
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
I want to stay in the pages of this book forever. . . . Whimsical and swoony with unmatched banter, you ll be rooting for Will and Annie from the very first page. B. K. Borison, author of the Lovelight series
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