Compromising Positions
by Jenna Bayley-Burke
Publication Date: November 28, 2016
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Select, Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Falling in love is the last thing on his busy agenda but compromising positions can lead just about anywhere.When fitness empire CEO David Strong agrees to help teach a yoga class for couples based on poses in The Kama Sutra, he’s put in one compromising position after another. Especially since the instructor is his best friend’s little sister-in-law, doesn’t have a lot of experience with men, and is totally off-limits. She’s everything David’s never wanted. So he can’t understand why he suddenly needs her so much.
Sophie DelFino has fantasized about David for over a decade, but he has a type, and she’s far from it. He’s also got all sorts of rules and reasons why they shouldn’t be together. Good thing Sophie is all about bending the rules.
Excerpt
By day, Jenna is faster than a speeding toddler, stronger than a stubborn husband, able to leap tall Lego structures in a single bound…but by night, while the family sleeps she writes romance novels where no one ever has to scoop up after the dog, change diapers, clip coupons, drive carpool, do laundry, mop floors, get silly putty out of hair, vacuum, empty the vacuum bag (gross!), exercise, count calories, apply bandaids, clean up puke…wait where was this going? Oh, Jenna writes romance because it is glamorous. Just ask the dog.
Falling in love is the last thing on his busy agenda but compromising positions can lead just about anywhere.When fitness empire CEO David Strong agrees to help teach a yoga class for couples based on poses in The Kama Sutra, he’s put in one compromising position after another. Especially since the instructor is his best friend’s little sister-in-law, doesn’t have a lot of experience with men, and is totally off-limits. She’s everything David’s never wanted. So he can’t understand why he suddenly needs her so much.
Sophie DelFino has fantasized about David for over a decade, but he has a type, and she’s far from it. He’s also got all sorts of rules and reasons why they shouldn’t be together. Good thing Sophie is all about bending the rules.
Excerpt
David tried to remember the last time he’d been to a grocery
store. College maybe? If there was anything at all in his fridge, his sister
had put it there. Kelly was wonderful about leaving ice cream and chips in her
wake.
“If we split the list, it will go faster.” Sophie smiled up
at him.
“Okay.” He shrugged, taking the torn piece of notebook paper
from her hand. He scanned the items. All produce.
“What’s on your list?” he asked, taking it from her hand.
More produce. He knew it. Women ate weird. His sister was the only sane woman
in the entire world.
“The joy of having a nutritionist for a brother-in-law.
Craig’s using me to test his latest diet plan,” she explained.
He took a step back and looked at her again. Even in sweats,
she looked fit. “Why?” She waved her hand.
“Who can keep track of Craig’s reasons? I indulge him. To a
point.”
“You should do his Deliver-Ease. It actually has real food,
not just vegetables.” And since the plan was run through Strong Gyms, utilizing
it let him do a little quality control.
She raised a dark eyebrow. “You’re on his diet plan?”
“You’re not the only one who indulges Craig. Besides, it’s
easy. Comes right to the office. I don’t even have to think about it.
She looked at him in disbelief. “But why are you on a diet?”
“I’m not.” He pushed the cart forward, away from the
lettuce. “Craig decided twenty years ago that he knew better than I did what I
should be eating. It’s a habit from way back.” He didn’t want to get into his
bodybuilding days. It had been an obsession for him for a while, something he
and Craig had done together. But it was not an arena he had ever excelled in.
He’d just gotten by. He wasn’t comfortable being average.
Sophie began to study the different lettuces so David
attacked his list. How did one pick out a cantaloupe? He looked at the melons
piled atop one another. Should he grab the one on top or did you study the
specimens the way she was now sizing up the citrus? He picked up two, weighing
each in his hands. How could a person possibly know which one to buy? He moved
his hands together, eying the fruit, trying to squeeze them to find some
difference. They looked exactly the same. She was suddenly in front of him, taking
away the cantaloupes and replacing them with grapefruits. “This is much more
realistic, David, unless you’re into fakes.” It took him a minute to realize
her insinuation. “I was not…not…” he stammered “Feeling up the fruit? Sure you
were. It’s okay, your secrets are safe with me.” Her smile told him she was
teasing as she turned the cart toward the apples.
He stomped after her. “I thought you weren’t into apples.”
He smiled as she blushed, obviously recalling her earlier lecture.
“Apples can be good. As long as they are part of a whole
bowl of fruit and not the only thing in the dish.” She gave him a cocky grin.
He laughed, full and deep. This girl was a piece of work.
“You handle the fruit, since you are the expert. I’ll stick with the vegetables.”
He couldn’t help himself—as he brushed past her, he leaned in and whispered,
“Just how big do you like your cucumbers?”
About Jenna Bayley-Burke
By day, Jenna is faster than a speeding toddler, stronger than a stubborn husband, able to leap tall Lego structures in a single bound…but by night, while the family sleeps she writes romance novels where no one ever has to scoop up after the dog, change diapers, clip coupons, drive carpool, do laundry, mop floors, get silly putty out of hair, vacuum, empty the vacuum bag (gross!), exercise, count calories, apply bandaids, clean up puke…wait where was this going? Oh, Jenna writes romance because it is glamorous. Just ask the dog.
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