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True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks #4)

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by Rachel Gibson


  He shook his head. “No, this feels right. I want my career to go out on a high note. Not after a few more years of chasing tonight’s glory. Trying to capture it again, only to go out on a low. I don’t want to be one of those guys. I don’t want to be my dad. It’s time.”

  “Are you sure?”

  “Yep.” They moved to the end of the carpet and he said, “Which means I’ll need a job.”

  “Yeah?”

  “Yeah, and since I have no skills other than playing hockey. I’m pretty much unemployable.”

  “I saw a Help Wanted sign at a Gas-N-Go.”

  He laughed. “I thought maybe you could use another pro scout.” They stopped at mid-ice and he bent her back over his arm and looked down into her face. The crowd went wild.

  “What are you doing?” She gasped.

  “Making sure those photos are old news. His mouth came down on hers and he tongue-kissed her on national television. In front of all the Chinooks and fourteen thousand cheering fans, the kiss lingered until she was dizzy and he was sure everyone got the point.

  Everyone but Sam. “My turn.”

  Ty shook his head as he brought Faith back up. “Don’t even think about it.”

  Alexander Dumont hoisted the cup up over his head and let out a Tarzan yell as Logan shook a fresh bottle of Moët. Within the sweet mist of golden champagne, Ty lowered his mouth next to her ear. “There is only one thing that will make this night even better.”

  “What?”

  “You and me. A hot shower and really inappropriate behavior.”

  About the Author

  With the publication of New York Times bestselling author RACHEL GIBSON’s first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romances freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader’s Choice, and the RITA® Award for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.

  Readers can write to Rachel Gibson at P.O. Box 4124, Boise, Idaho 83711-4124, or visit her website at www.rachelgibson.com.

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  By Rachel Gibson

  TRUE LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS

  NOT ANOTHER BAD DATE

  TANGLED UP IN YOU

  I’M IN NO MOOD FOR LOVE

  SEX, LIES, AND ONLINE DATING

  THE TROUBLE WITH VALENTINE’S DAY

  DAISY’S BACK IN TOWN

  SEE JANE SCORE

  LOLA CARLYLE REVEALS ALL

  TRUE CONFESSIONS

  IT MUST BE LOVE

  TRULY MADLY YOURS

  SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  TRUE LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS. Copyright © 2009 by Rachel Gibson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  About the Author

  Other Books by Rachel Gibson

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


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