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  If her car had been in a less precarious situation, he probably would have sent her to hang out in her car while he took care of getting it unstuck. But one of her back tires was hanging precariously over the edge of the ditch.

  He jerked his thumb over his shoulder. “Get in my car. We can wait there for a tow truck.” He was vaguely aware of his words coming out like an order, but the hail was starting to sting, damn it. Both of them needed to get out of the rain before they froze.

  But the woman didn’t move. Instead, she gave him a look that said he was a complete and utter nut-job.

  “I’m not getting into your car.”

  Realizing just how frightening it must be for a lone woman to end up stuck and alone in the middle of a dark road, Chase took a step back from her. He had to speak loudly enough for her to hear him over the hail.

  “I’m not going to attack you. I swear I won’t do anything to hurt you.”

  She all but flinched at the word attack, and Chase’s radar started buzzing. He’d never been a magnet for troubled women, wasn’t the kind of guy who thrived on fixing wounded birds. But living with two sisters for so many years meant he could always tell when something was up.

  And something was definitely up with this woman, beyond the fact that her car was half-stuck in a muddy ditch.

  Wanting to make her feel safe, he held his hands up. “I swear on my father’s grave, I’m not going to hurt you. It’s okay to get into my car.” When she didn’t immediately say no again, he pressed his advantage with, “I just want to help you.” And he did. More than it made sense to want to help a stranger. “Please,” he said. “Let me help you.”

  She stared at him for a long moment, hail hammering between them, around them, onto them. Chase found himself holding his breath, waiting for her decision. It shouldn’t matter to him what she decided.

  But, for some strange reason, it did.

  …Excerpt from THE LOOK OF LOVE by Bella Andre © 2014

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  The Sullivans

  The Look Of Love

  From This Moment On

  Can’t Help Falling In Love

  I Only Have Eyes For You

  If You Were Mine

  Let Me Be The One

  Come A Little Bit Closer

  Always On My Mind

  Kissing Under The Mistletoe

  One Perfect Night

  The Way You Look Tonight

  It Must Be Your Love

  Just To Be With You

  I Love How You Love Me

  All I Ever Need Is You

  Now That I’ve Found You

  Since I Fell For You

  The Maverick Billionaires

  Breathless in Love

  Reckless in Love

  Fearless in Love

  Irresistible in Love

  Wild in Love

  The Morrisons

  Kiss Me Like This

  Tempt Me Like This

  Love Me Like This

  Game For Love series

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  Take Me

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  Ecstasy

  Red Hot Reunion

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  Hot As Sin

  Never Too Hot

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  Lucy Kevin is the “sweet” pen name of Bella Andre. Lucy Kevin books are fun, flirty and romantic—without the steamy scenes.

  Married in Malibu Series

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  Be My Love

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  When It’s Love

  All For Love

  Forever In Love

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  The Wedding Gift

  The Wedding Dance

  The Wedding Song

  The Wedding Dress

  The Wedding Kiss

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  Falling Fast

  Sparks Fly

  Seattle Girl

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  Having sold more than 5 million books, Bella Andre’s novels have been #1 bestsellers around the world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 30 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author on a top 10 list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Steven King, and Publishers Weekly named Oak Press (the publishing company she created to publish her own books) the Fastest-Growing Independent Publisher in the US. After signing a groundbreaking 7-figure print-only deal with Harlequin MIRA, Bella’s “The Sullivans” series has been released in paperback in the US, Canada, and Australia.

  Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance” (Publishers Weekly), her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine “Red Hot Reads” twice and have been translated into ten languages. Winner of the Award of Excellence, The Washington Post called her “One of the top writers in America” and she has been featured by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and TIME Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University, she has given keynote speeches at publishing conferences from Copenhagen to Berlin to San Francisco, including a standing-room-only keynote at Book Expo America in New York City.

  Bella also writes the New York Times bestselling Four Weddings and a Fiasco series as Lucy Kevin. Her “sweet” contemporary romances also include the USA Today bestselling Walker Island series written as Lucy Kevin.

  If not behind her computer, you can find her reading her favorite authors, hiking, swimming or laughing. Married with two children, Bella splits her time between the Northern California wine country and a 100 year old log cabin in the Adirondacks.

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