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Top 5 Reasons Blake Wilde is as Scorching Hot As Miami

GIVEAWAY: win a copy of MISSED CONNECTIONS

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If you read MISSED CONNECTIONS, youโ€™ve already met the delicious massage therapist Blake Wilde, but in the second novel in the Summer Love Series, you get to see more of him. Way more.

With thrusting. ;)

He even gets a Point Of View of his own in this book, so you get to crawl around
inside his mind as well as Melanie Walkerโ€™s (the other main character).

But before you delve between the covers of his book and take him home with you, there are a few things you should brace yourself for. Without being too spoilery, here are the top 5 reasons Blake Wilde is as Scorching Hot as Miami!

  1. His last name
His last name is literally Wilde. A sexy last name automatically makes someone seem hotter. Picture Brad Pitt. Now imagine his last name is Wilde. Heโ€™s at least 37% hotter now. Letโ€™s face it, if there was no Brad Pitt and you heard that name, what springs to mind? Definitely not the deliciousness weโ€™ve grown to associate with that name. But if you married Blake Wilde, YOUR new name, should you choose to accept it, would be Wilde as well. Itโ€™s sexy. Itโ€™s dangerous. Itโ€™s funโ€”just like he is.
  1. Dimples!
Ok, itโ€™s strange to narrow into a feature like that, but who doesnโ€™t love a great smile framed with dimples? They can make the deadliest bad boy seem cheeky and rogue-ish.
  1. Their History
Thereโ€™s something comforting about having known someone and been friends with them firstโ€”or in this case, he was Melanieโ€™s older brotherโ€™s best friendโ€”that makes you feel secure with them. Thereโ€™s a foundation of trust and friendship and acceptance there that wouldnโ€™t exist if theyโ€™d just met off the street as adults. Heโ€™s seen the awkward kid stage, witnessed horrifically embarrassing moments in her life. She doesnโ€™t have to hide those moments or pretend to be perfect. While itโ€™s still new and exciting and sexy as hell, thereโ€™s also the comfort that comes when you know someone truly accepts who you are as a personโ€”not their idea of you. Itโ€™s real.
  1. Those hands.
Blakeโ€™s a massage therapist studying to be a Physical Therapist. This is a man who knows exactly how to touch you to make you feel goodโ€ฆand then make you feel even better. Men who study biology are men who know their way around the human body. Thatโ€™s a great thing. :)
  1. Heโ€™s modelled after Adam Rodriguez (AKA Tito in Magic Mike, AKA Eric Delko on CSI: Miami).
See Adam on my Pinterest Board

Need I say more? ;)

SUMMER INDISCRETIONS by Tamara Mataya

Summer Love #2

Summer
Indiscretions

Life Swap: Free-spirited beach-dweller looking to Switch lives with outgoing urbanite. Sense of adventure mandatory. Clothing optional.

One email away from a total meltdown, Melanie Walker's desperate to escape New York. Using Switch-a website designed to help strangers swap homes for the summer-she slips out of her stilettos and into a string bikini. But of all the beaches in all the world, Blake Wilde just had to show up on hers. He's hot. Scorching hot. And he's been strictly off-limits for as long as she can remember.

To hell with that. New life? New rules.

Melanie knows something this good can't be made to last. But for three sizzling weeks, she can pretend there won't be consequences, recriminations, or regret...and that somehow their growing connection can be more than just a summer fling.

Romance Contemporary [Sourcebooks Casablanca, On Sale: January 3, 2017, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781492635345 / eISBN: 9781492635352]

About Tamara Mataya

Tamara Mataya

Tamara Mataya is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a librarian, and a musician with synaesthesia. Armed with a name tag and a thin veneer of credibility, she takes great delight in recommending books and shushing people. She puts the 'she' in TWSS and the B in LGBTQIA+.

Summer Love

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GIVEAWAY

Get to see the FIRST glimpse of Blake in a copy of MISSED CONNECTIONS which Sourcebooks Casablanca is giving away. Just tell us below about your favorite beach guy! Easy! SUMMER INDISCRETIONS

Comments

16 comments posted.

Re: Top 5 Reasons Blake Wilde is as Scorching Hot As Miami

Liam Hemsworth
(Kathleen Bylsma 5:55pm January 11, 2017)

Of course, it could be Blake Wilde! ;)
(Kathleen Bylsma 5:56pm January 11, 2017)

So excited to read this!!!
(Tiffany Engler 7:22pm January 11, 2017)

Blake Wilde.
(Sharon Berger 9:43am January 12, 2017)

Favorite Beach Guy... Matthew Mcconaughey... That man is
sexy and very beachy. Thanks for the chance.
(Jeannie Platt 5:34pm January 12, 2017)

Josh from Turtle Bay by King.
(Tammy VanScoy 10:30am January 13, 2017)

My favorite beach guy could be the actor on Chicago Fire, Kelly Severaite.....if Lady Gaga loved him...what's not to love. Your books in the Summer Love Series are awesome.
Thanks, for a chance to win one.
(Lois Imel 10:08pm January 13, 2017)

I love dimples on a guy!
(Jana B 2:22pm January 14, 2017)

Oh he'd look like Liam Hemsworth but be older and more settled! Yummy!
(Vicki Hancock 11:26pm January 14, 2017)

chris pine
(Valerie Miller 12:59pm January 15, 2017)

I wanna read this
(Sherry Barnes 3:58am January 15, 2017)

Total meltdown became sizzling hot.
(Anna Speed 1:02pm January 15, 2017)

Liam Hemsworth for the younger, Sam Elliott for the older ;)
(Kathleen Bylsma 1:11pm January 15, 2017)

My husband, long hair, cut body...yeah
(Linda Knowles 2:55pm January 16, 2017)

A nice guy to be around, and he can do his own laundry.
(Nancy Luebke 5:38pm January 16, 2017)

Troy Donohue, if anyone else is old enoough to remember
him. Or Gardner McKay.
(Irene Menge 10:37pm January 16, 2017)

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