On Any Given Sundae [NOOK Book]

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Nothing tops the sweetness of an unexpected love...

When Elizabeth's uncle Siegfried and Rob's uncle Pauly rush off to Europe for a month, they temporarily relinquish the reins of their ice cream shop to their respective niece and nephew -- two people who may have grown up practically next door to each other but who have next to nothing in common.

Elizabeth "Please Don't ...
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On Any Given Sundae

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Overview

Nothing tops the sweetness of an unexpected love...

When Elizabeth's uncle Siegfried and Rob's uncle Pauly rush off to Europe for a month, they temporarily relinquish the reins of their ice cream shop to their respective niece and nephew -- two people who may have grown up practically next door to each other but who have next to nothing in common.

Elizabeth "Please Don't Call Me Lizzy" Daniels is a small-town Wisconsin girl at heart. Shy and inexperienced at love, the frizzy-haired dessert cookbook writer still resides in her quaint hometown of Wilmington Bay, stutters painfully when nervous and is only comfortable with her laptop and her tiny circle of cooking pals. She must come out of hiding over the summer to help her uncle, but she's convinced her childhood crush, Rob, barely knows she exists.

Roberto "You'd Better Call Me Rob, or Else" Gabinarri is the town's golden boy and former football star who left home after high school, made a splash in the big city and never looked back. He has to return to Wilmington Bay to uphold a promise to his uncle, but he's counting the minutes until he can escape to the relative anonymity of his fast-paced, commitment-free city life and the sports-themed restaurant he owns in Chicago. Despite his chattiness and charm, Rob was always intimidated by quiet, brainy girls like "Frizzy Lizzy," and he isn't pleased to be back in the place where people like her still see him as that popular but dumb jock -- an image he worked for almost a decade to shed.

The unlikely pair tries to make the best of being stuck together, but Elizabeth has a pressing publication deadline, and Rob has an Italian mother bent on lining up potential hometown brides for him. Rob comes up with an idea -- something that might help them both -- but it involves just a bit of family deception. With time running out to finish her cookbook and her friends already stretched to the max trying to assist them, Elizabeth reluctantly agrees.

Neither Rob nor Elizabeth are used to playing games of pretense, but can love, hot summer nights and, maybe, some chocolate sauce, caramel and whipped cream...turn their farce into reality?

ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE Excerpt:
Elizabeth rarely swore aloud but, in her mind, she was cursing not just a blue streak, but also a red, orange, yellow and green streak. She was, in fact, well on her way to a complete blasphemous rainbow, and Rob Gabinarri hadn't even arrived yet.
Of all people. She never thought she'd have to make it through so much as a ten-minute soda pop break with him again. The boy who'd broken her heart and didn't even know it.
Or maybe he did know it. She couldn't decide which was the greater tragedy.
A snazzy red Porsche convertible squealed to a stop behind her sensible blue Toyota Camry, and the town's Golden Boy stepped out of the car and into the empty confectionary shop.
"Hey, Lizzy. Long time, no see," he said, glancing around the shop in a frantic kind of way.
"E-Elizabeth," she corrected automatically.
"Oh, all right. Sorry."
She stared at him, which of course he didn't notice because he was too busy looking at everything else in the place besides her.
He walked into the backroom then out of it again.
He peered into the washrooms.
He opened and shut a few closets.
He paced back and forth, sat down in a booth, got back up and paced some more.
The guy was as tall and muscular and breathtaking as he'd been a decade before when he used to saunter through the unremarkable halls of Wilmington Bay High School, oblivious to anyone and anything beyond the football field and his bevy of admirers. If it were possible, he seemed even more youthful and in command now than he did at age eighteen.
And she felt about as queasy as she'd felt the last time they'd been face to face.
Finally, his pacing stopped. "Where is my uncle?" he asked in a husky whisper, directing the query at a tray of chocolate-dipped sugar cookies. "Uncle?" he called out. "Uncle Pauly?"
She wanted to tell him, but the words were lodged in her esophagus and, anyway, he wasn't talking to her.
He strode into the backroom again, as if convinced the elderly Italian man could be found hiding behind a jar of candied cherries or a vat of butterscotch syrup. The long black eyelashes blinked in confusion when he emerged into the main shop once again, his gaze and those nutmeg-brown eyes directed at her.
"Don't tell me he left already." This was more a threat than a question. He shook his head at her as though that gesture alone would discourage an affirmative reply.
She held her breath. Nodded.
She pursed her lips, just as she'd learned in her special speech tutorials so long ago, formed the first letter and tried to push it out of her mouth. But she stuttered anyway. "L-Lufthansa. F-Fl-Flight 403."
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Editorial Reviews

Chicklit Club - Leah Krygowski
"This is a charming tale of the popular jock and the shy bookworm, both trying to outlive their high school personas and prove to each other there is more to them than meets the eye. This is truly a root-for-the-underdog, feel-good story and a joy to read." (LEK) ~ Chicklit Club's Digital Domain, June 2011
RT Book Reviews - Romantic Times
"You'll want to read it for the humor and great characters and a plot that's sure to leave you smiling." ~ Romantic Times Book Reviews, Hot Pick for October 2011
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012964458
  • Publisher: Twelfth Night Publishing
  • Publication date: 6/6/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 190
  • Sales rank: 388,238
  • File size: 893 KB

Meet the Author

Marilyn Brant is a USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary fiction, and she was named the 2013 Author of the Year by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. She wrote ACCORDING TO JANE, the story of a modern woman who receives dating advice from the spirit of Jane Austen (October 2009); FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE, a tale about three suburban moms, their marriages and what happens a decade or two after the "Happily Ever After" (a Doubleday Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club pick in 2010); and A SUMMER IN EUROPE, a novel about a woman's journey of self discovery as she travels through Europe with her adventurous aunt's Sudoku & Mahjongg Club (a Literary Guild and BOMC2 featured alternate in 2011, and a Rhapsody Book Club Top 20 Bestseller in "Fiction & Literature" in 2012), all women's fiction releases from Kensington Books.

She's also a #1 Kindle & #1 Nook Bestseller and has written a series of fun and flirty contemporary romantic comedies, available as original ebooks. Both ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE and PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND THE PERFECT MATCH were Top 100 Bestsellers on both Barnes & Noble and Amazon. DOUBLE DIPPING was a 2012 International Digital Awards Finalist for Best Contemporary Novel. Her latest book, THE ROAD TO YOU, was a coming-of-age romantic mystery (October 2013) and a Top 100 B&N Bestseller. Her novella "All About Us" was included as part of the new-adult romance anthology, ALL I EVER WANTED (January 2014). Look for PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND THE PERFECT BET, coming summer 2014.

As a former teacher, library staff member, freelance magazine writer and national book reviewer for Romantic Times, Marilyn has spent much of her life lost in literature. She received her M.A. in educational psychology from Loyola University Chicago, dabbled in both fiction and art at Northwestern University, studied the works of Austen at Oxford University and is a Lifetime Member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Her debut novel won RWA's prestigious Golden Heart Award® in 2007 and a number of awards since -- including the Single Titles Reviewers' Choice, the Booksellers' Best and the Aspen Gold.

Marilyn lives in the northern Chicago suburbs with her family. When she isn't rereading Jane's books or enjoying the latest releases by her writer friends, she's working on her next novel, eating chocolate indiscriminately and hiding from the laundry.

Visit her website: www.marilynbrant.com
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  • Posted June 9, 2011

    A perfect read

    This fun book has depth and great writing that made me laugh at times, and other times touched my heart. The small Wisconsin town's former golden boy and frizzy-haired brainiac were so well-drawn, with insecurities as well as strengths. I enjoyed reading about their friends and relatives, too. Great characters all around, and I could see this as a TV show. And then there was the food, especially the desserts that made me want to raid my fridge. (Where I had nothing as good as in the book.) This book is like a light meal ending with a luscious, layered sundae that leaves you with a smile on your face and a desire to come back soon and dip into it again.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 9, 2011

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    Fun and charming romance!

    I read this book in under a day. Marilyn Brant has written a fun, contemporary romance that is so charming and fun you'll have trouble putting it down. Both leads- Lizzie and Rob are sympathetic characters. I loved the crazy uncles, the ice-cream parlor settings, the romance, whole thing!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 6, 2011

    My Summer Guilty Pleasure

    Looking for something to cool you off AND heat you up this summer? Have I got a treat for you. It's Marilyn Brant's ebook, ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE. After weeks of agonizingly forcing myself to take small, sinfully sweet bites, I have just finished it. It's no big secret that I am a fan of Marilyn Brant's. I find her witty, charming and downright delightful, as is her writing. Her words are as rich and mouth-watering as Crème Brule, more tangy and saucy than Lemon Chiffon Squares and this book was harder for me to put down than my beloved Double-stuffed Oreos. When a character is described as being like, 'the smell of bread dough rising, like thick, chocolate icing on a fresh pastry, like powdered sugar on a Mexican wedding cake', I'm hooked. Seriously hooked. And if you think this review is getting your taste buds dancing, just wait until you read ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAE. I promise, it will leave you hungry for more. And speaking of more, Marilyn's second ebook, DOUBLE DIPPING, will be available August 31st. What could be sweeter?

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 27, 2013

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    really liked this

    I always enjoy watching someone become stronger. I also enjoy watching a guy fall in love Read this

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 7, 2013

    This book was fantastic!  A fun easy read.   Although once you s

    This book was fantastic!  A fun easy read.   Although once you start reading be sure you have time to finish the book...hard to put down 
    once you get started.  Great book to read on the beach or pool side.  The only bad thing was all the food talk kept making me hungry!!
      

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 7, 2013

    Great book from start to finish. A very well-written, clever st

    Great book from start to finish. A very well-written, clever story with light, fun humor that would delight anyone.


    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    A fun all around good read

    A fun, well written contemporary romance. I read this in less than a day. I found it to be over all light and fun and the story pulled you right in.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 12, 2014

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    This has to be the best first page to a book I've ever read and

    This has to be the best first page to a book I've ever read and a fun afternoon read.

    Elizabeth, Rob, and a great group of friends agree to help run their Uncles' sweet shop while they are away.  Fabulous story about finding love in unlikely places and meddling family members.

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  • Posted June 27, 2014

    This book is one of those you would wanna read curled up with a

    This book is one of those you would wanna read curled up with a cuppa tea or relaxing by the beach. It gives you the warm fuzzies,
    the sweet smiles and the sighs especially when reading about lovely & yummy food and desserts.

    Lizzy is just cute through and through and it's without a doubt that she is adorable even with the stuttering. Rob is a sweetheart but
    he doesn't feel it. The secondary characters in this book made the story even more enjoyable. I loved the camaraderie between Lizzy,
    Gretchen, Nick & Jacques. They are the best friends anyone could have especially with all the desserts they were whipping up. It was
    sweet to see their fierce loyalty and protectiveness for Lizzy. Another part that I enjoyed were scenes of the town coming together and
    snippets of the high school days. It made the story complete without being overwhelming.

    This is my first book by Marilyn Brant and I'll be checking her other books out.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2013

    a page turner

    great story! a page turner will be buy more books for this author, many unexpected turns

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 12, 2013

    Not complete book on nook.

    Started middle of chapter 5.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 2, 2013

    *

    Did not enjoy this book. I hate books where the woman get stupider with every passing page. I like a good romace novel from time and again. This is not one. Sorry.

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