"First, she tampered with my pickle. Then, she got us both kicked off a cooking show.
Now, we're fake engaged. Sit back, friends, this is one crazy tale of treachery and pickle juice.
So, a few months back I created a new pickle. It's spicy. Like, fiery hot. It went viral in a big way. Then along comes Magnolia Boudreaux.
She's the daughter of a rival deli. She ends up a surprise guest on a cooking show I've booked, insisting her pickle is hotter. Then she shows up on another show. Then another. Our feud becomes legendary, until it nearly ruins both our delis.
So I do the only thing I can think of to fix the problem. I kiss her on national television. And to top it? We get engaged.
We've got the whole fake relationship down until she buys me a pickle cactus shaped like . . . well, I'm sure you can picture it.
And everything after that? I made sure that she's not faking a thing."
"My pickle is in a pickle. And it has nothing to do with my family deli. My first bodybuilding competition is in less than an hour. My fake tan looks like someone hosed me in orange juice.
But a tiny goddess in spandex arrives with her brushes and tanning wand. She's funny. She's sexy. I could spend all day with her hands on my hard body.
But there are two problems.
1. When she touches me, a particular part of my anatomy springs to life. In public. In the smallest competition trunks you can imagine. And . . . I'm about to go out on stage.
2. Camryn is my best friend's sister. The last man who looked at her got his face bashed in. If I go anywhere near her, he's made perfectly clear that he will kill me.
But you might as well carve my tombstone. Because the more we see each other, the more we know we can't fight this thing.
And despite my best friend's threats, when I'm naked in Camryn's tanning tent, there's no way this Pickle is going to get anything but hot."
"Girlfriends, I've really done it this time.
I'm a bridesmaid at a bachelorette party, minding my own business at a local bar after doing six shots of Fireball, when I realize I need to pee. In size small Spanx.
I'm a large.
While I wrestle with my white-spandex belly-smasher in the only bathroom, I'm holding up the whole bar from relieving itself.
When the broody, tatted-up owner breaks down the door, thinking maybe I've alcohol-poisoned myself into the afterlife, my drink-addled brain decides to revisit the karate I learned around third grade.
But I misfire my karate kick and hook a thigh around his waist. Then, the sexy rock skull chains hanging off his belt snag my Spanx.
We're stuck.
Junk to junk.
My best friend, the bride, holds back the barroom paparazzi and promises to snip us apart on one condition:
This hottie biker bad boy has to be my date at her wedding.
Friends, this is the start of one wicked love story.
Wicked Pickle is a romantic comedy about a down-on-love, dumpling-loving bridesmaid who ends up taking the outcast member of the Pickle family deep into the belly of the biggest Pickle wedding this side of the Mississippi.
Diesel's story is part of the Pickleverse and includes the wedding of Rhett and Bailey from Juicy Pickle, but truly, you don't need to have listened to any of the other books before this one. You can start your crazy adventure with the Pickle family right here."
"On a cross-country road trip, an expert in romantic comedies finds herself living one in a funny, refreshing, and flirty novel about really falling in love by USA Today bestselling author JJ Knight.
Kelsey Whitaker knows every hit rom-com by heart and why they work. It’s her job. As a casting assistant to a fearsome boss nicknamed the Demon, Kelsey creates chemistry with perfect leads. Let the tropes take it from there. So where’s the meet-cute in her own life? That she’ll have to make happen herself.
With the help of her best friend and wingman, Zachery Carter—a total Hemsworth, even if his career is ebbing—Kelsey trades in her big-city stilettos for small-town tennies and hits the back roads. Somewhere between Hollywood and her Alabama roots, she’s determined to strategically stumble into the arms of an all-American flannel-wearing, decent-hearted, rustic boy next door. It’s a blockbuster blueprint for success! Isn’t it?
It’s all a secretly smitten Zachery can do not to tell Kelsey she’s looking for love in all the wrong places. If she really wants a happy ending, they may have to do a little rewriting, town by town and mile by mile. Together."
"In a breathtaking island paradise, it’s easy for a handsome local and a sexy tourist to get swept away in a tart and tempting romance by a USA Today bestselling author.
A destination wedding on La Jarra Island for Tillie James’s sister has its drawbacks: hair-wrecking ocean spray and pincher crabs. And its perks: sexy, hotheaded beachfront bartender Gabe Landers, who brings out the competitive streak in fellow drinkslinger Tillie. When the rivals get together for a cocktail-making challenge, the blend is pure bliss, leaving them shaken and stirred.
The spirited blue-eyed tourist from Georgia makes Gabe’s head spin faster than his signature drink, the mermaid sunrise. But he’s determined not to obsess—out-of-towner love stories never last. Tillie agrees. They’ll just enjoy each other for now and make a clean break. No strings. No attachments. No chance. But when Tillie’s kiss goodbye comes with an invitation for Gabe to visit Atlanta, he can’t resist. As fate has it, it’s home to a heartbreaking piece of his own past.
As Tillie and Gabe face new challenges, destiny could tear them apart…or turn an intoxicating romance on the rocks into more than they ever expected."
"She sparkles. He growls. Baring their true feelings could be the start of a wild love story—or the end of it—in a sexy romantic comedy by a USA Today bestselling author.
One spilled glass of wine and bridesmaid Ensley James is ejected from a country club wedding in the rain. Ensley looks on the bright side. That would be her longtime crush Drew Daniels. The moody, broody, skin-pricklingly sexy groomsman is tossed out with her. Waiting out a hot spring storm in a cozy shed for two, it’s time for Drew’s confession: he’s strictly a one-nighter. Ensley’s dare? Give her three date nights and see where it goes.
A veterinarian like Drew is great when it comes to puppy love, but he has his reasons for his rules about women: no true feelings, just flings. So why agree to Ensley’s three-date challenge? Easy. Miss Ray of Freaking Sunshine is absolutely irresistible. Night after night, Ensley and Drew can’t ignore the heat, the growing intimacy—and the unexpected complications. Drew’s walls may be crumbling, but Ensley’s still at risk of being another tryst.
Especially with Ensley’s final confession. This one could be their rockiest challenge yet."
"He was my biggest rival in law school. Then my everything. Until he broke my heart.
Mack McAllister was the most hard-core, winner-take-all law student I ever met. Next to me. It only made sense that we’d end up in a crazy, intense affair that lasted until we graduated.
He went to the west coast. I headed east.
Except, now, ten years later, I’m back in his territory.
I don’t plan to call him. That was then, and this is now.
But when I discover the tough-edged, take-no-prisoners Mack McAllister is moonlighting as a mall Santa, well -- this I have to see.
But the line is wild, and in sneaking through the kids, I end up on my back, tangled in tinsel, elves at my side.
And Jolly Ol’ McAllister is helping me up, a question in those familiar eyes.
Does he get a second chance?
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Second Chance Santa is a feel-good romantic comedy in the blockbuster bestselling world of JJ Knight's Pickleverse, the Amazon Top 100, Kindle All-Star, get-you-through-a-bad-time, bust-your-gut stories about a family who owns a delicatessen chain. But you don't have to read any other Pickle book before this one. You can start your wild adventure with the Pickles right here."
"He's kind of a big dill.
They call me Big Pickle. It's not what you think. (Although that's true too.) I happen to be the oldest Pickle in the family deli business. And we have the best salami. Take that one however you like.
But when my father announces the franchise will go to the most profitable of the three brothers, I learn that even though I'm the eldest Pickle, I'm dead last.
I hightail it to Texas to see what's happened to my restaurant, only to find a sassy little spitfire named Nova Strong in charge. She's amazing. She's sexy. She runs our deli like she owns it.
But despite the way we nearly melt the permafrost in the industrial freezer, I have to control myself. Nova thinks I'm a new employee. She has no idea I'm only there to spy. Or that I'm her boss.
As I get to the bottom of why my franchise is failing, I desperately need to know one thing: Is Nova Strong everything wrong with my deli, or everything right for me?
Contains mature themes."
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