Sweet Southern Trouble

by Michele Summers

Overview

"Get ready to laugh and swoon your way through this sassy and sexy southern romance!"—RT Book Reviews

Kindergarten teacher Marabelle Fairfield will do just about anything to score NFL coach Nick Frasier's participation in a fundraiser that could make her career—even pose as his fiancée.

Marabelle Fairchild knows she's a gal who can get things done. Feeling unappreciated at the exclusive private school where she works, Marabelle determines to score with the next big fundraiser. What she doesn't expect? A smokin' hot football coach to throw her off her game...

NFL coach Nick Frasier is Raleigh's most eligible bachelor, but he wants to focus on his career…not his playboy status. He doesn't need a smart-mouthed, pint-sized kindergarten teacher pestering him. So he cuts Marabelle a deal—in exchange for Nick sponsoring a bachelor auction starring him and his gorgeous celebrity pals, Marabelle will pose as his fiancée to ward off unwanted advances.

This oughta be fun…

What People Are Saying:

"Summers excels at detailing Katie and Vance's immediate attraction and steamy flirtation...Detailed interactions with their friends and family help to build them as fully realized characters." —Publishers Weekly for Sweet Southern Bad Boy

"Summers keeps the dialogue flowing like sweet tea." —Booklist for Sweet Southern Bad Boy

"Small-town life at its best, full of quirky characters and great dialogue." —Booklist for Not So New in Town

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402293658
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	879 KB

About the Author

Michele Summers writes about small town life with a Southern flair. She has her own interior design business in Raleigh, North Carolina and Miami, Florida. Both professions feed her creative appetite and provide a daily dose of humor. When she isn’t writing or creating colorful interiors, she is playing tennis, cooking for family and clients, knitting, reading and most importantly, raising her two great kids. Michele’s work has won recognition from the Dixie First Chapter, Golden Palm, Fool For Love, Rebecca and Fabulous Five contests. She is an active member of the Heart of Carolina and Florida Romance Writers chapters of RWA. You can contact Michele at her website, www.michelesummers.com, where you will also locate her other social media buttons.

Editorial Reviews

04/10/2017
An untidy story line and characters who verge on caricature hamper the disappointing fourth Harmony Homecomings contemporary (after Sweet Southern Bad Boy). Short, athletic kindergarten teacher Marabelle Fairchild is tasked with convincing hunky football coach Nick Frasier to persuade his team to offer themselves at a fund-raising auction. Marabelle, who has rebelled against her toxic wealthy parents, needs job security, and Nick needs a “wholesome” female companion to soothe the football-team owner’s concerns. Convoluted logic leads to Nick and Marabelle’s faux engagement, with conflicts including Nick’s troubled romantic past and Marabelle’s conviction that she’s sexually incompetent. Surrounding this are incompletely realized subplots and an unfortunate number of supporting characters who are either unconvincingly quirky or cartoonish. Only Beau “Tinker Bell” Quinton, Nick’s self-appointed matchmaker, really shines. Agent: Nicole Resciniti, Seymour Agency. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"Get ready to laugh and swoon your way through this sassy and sexy southern romance!" — RT Book Reviews

"The high quality of [Michele Summers’] writing is a joy to read." — Long and Short Reviews

From the Publisher

04/15/2017
Charged with the responsibility of inducing NFL coach Nick Frasier, the uncle of one of her kindergartners, to help out with the school's fundraiser, teaching assistant (and high school tennis coach) Marabelle Fairchild is shocked when her facetious idea of holding a bachelor auction is embraced. Now she has to prevail upon Nick to talk his friends and teammates into participating. Nick resists, but Marabelle intrigues him, and when they end up in a fake engagement, thanks to an impulsive remark, their relationship takes a predictable but not always comfortable turn. Likable protagonists keep the plot on track, while a diverse cast of supporting characters add complications of their own. VERDICT Laugh-out-loud humor and stellar sensuality add up to a lively Southern treasure. Summers (Sweet Southern Bad Boy) lives in North Carolina.

Library Journal