Common Sense Doesn't Become Me (20 page)

The corporate world has an unwritten set of
rules that could make it is easy to be caught up in the intrigue of
it all, while trying to make your way to the top. Jennifer Everest
knew that setting standards for herself that some might seem as
extreme also fought against her nature of something else. Then
along comes an attraction that is so strong it is hard to ignore,
and she wants to break all those rules. Can one woman who dominates
in the boardroom and bedroom, allow herself to be submissive to a
man in order to get what they both want in the end?

Some girls have all the luck, and I'm not one
of them. I've gotten myself into some really sticky situations all
my life, but this one beats them all. Who can say they had dinner
with a dead man? Me. That's who. Add to that, I am currently
unemployed and will take any measly bone a person might throw a
dog. I am licking that dog bowl for odd jobs that pay cash, as I
collect my unemployment check. All this, while trying to please my
mother's need to marry me off before it's too late. Between blind
dates, odd jobs while looking for a job, interviews with stellar
type people - not, I wind up having dinner with a blind date to
only be attending his funeral within a week's time.

When trouble strikes, Kia is there. If
disaster is dealt, Kia holds the cards. If catastrophe is calling,
Kia will answer it. All a girl needs to cope with all of this is
her three best friends and maybe a handsome hero. Old Sheriff Cleat
has had his fair share of bailing Kia out of trouble or coming to
her rescue, but the last one has put him out of commission. There
is a new Sheriff in town, and the local women are all a twitter -
literally. Kia gets her first run-in with the handsome new sheriff
just after she runs her car up a hillside while watching him jog
without his shirt on. By week's end, the new sheriff is beginning
to think that Kia is either short for catastrophe, or she is trying
to find ways to spend more time with him. Kia's best friends have
spent a lifetime of dealing with Kia and her God-given attraction
to trouble, but they also know Kia needs a man like the sheriff to
keep her in line and bail her out once in a while. While Kia
quickly becomes short on temper with the handsome hero, she isn't
short on need and quickly realizes that having a man like the
sheriff on her side isn't such a bad idea after all, but will the
corner of Trouble and Catastrophe keep them apart?

Hollywood takes in Alabama, but not for long.
One woman thought she wanted the glamorous life but what she got
was a backstabbing best friend and her spot on prime-time
television for the entire world to see. Back home, no one seemed to
care that she had gone and screwed up her life, but there was one
question on the tip of her own tongue that kept repeating itself.
"Why'd you have to go a do a thing like that?" Not once did she see
it coming, but when she went about making the same mistakes back
home in Alabama, she knew she needed to get her wits about her.
Only problem was, that the one man who mattered most might have
decided she was too much drama to handle. It wasn't her fault that
she was born with a magical drama disaster wand or was it? Could
she learn to be the woman she was raised to be and let the man of
her dreams know how much she loves him back, or is it too late, and
he decides that loving her hurts too much to be rejected again?
Sometimes a southern man knows that if you love someone, she is
worth it all in the end. Can this starlet claim Sweet Home Alabama
once again? Favorite quote that describes it all. "I was born with
a tiara on my head and magical wand that created plumes of drama
whenever I waved it."

Can one very feisty artistic woman find
comfort and forgiveness in the arms of a man who killed to protect
our country, serving as a Navy Seal? It takes a calm levelheaded
man to face up to the attitude of one Natasha Kova, a famous
artist; whose paintings sell for a price more than Sam Cole's
Harley. Natasha's life did not start out easy, and her lack of
trust was understandable but Sam Cole wanted nothing more than to
love her and protect her. Would Natasha's jealousy and lack of
trust push Sam away or would he follow through at the end and not
leave a man behind to succumb to their own devices? The passion
these two feel could be the explosive device to end their
relationship, or it could very well be the reason they find each
other in their loving arms once again.

What happens when a book shy girl, grows up
dreaming about her next-door neighborhood boy as her dream fantasy
man to marry, then runs into him while trying to find her wild
side. When Mary Catherine O'Reilly, Mary Cate to her friends,
finally succumbs to her best friend's wishes to take her lifestyle
up a notch, crazy and wild things happen. Crazy as in doing things
a reserved kindergarten teacher would never think about doing, wild
as in experiencing the best orgasms of her life with the man of her
dreams in places she would never have thought possible. When
one-man tugs at your fantasy heart strings for so long and then to
have it happen for real, a girl can fall hard. Only one problem,
when that man finally gets to fulfill his dreams of having her and
is afraid to commit, he can find many ways to make her feel as if
he just doesn't have the time now.

A wrench gets thrown in her plans to get wild
and crazy for one summer, when her best friend who started all
this, ups and marries a man she has only known for twenty-four
hours in Vegas. What is even crazier is, the man her best friend
marries, is her fantasy man's older brother. Planning a wedding,
the demanding MIL insists on throwing, so that the marriage can be
celebrated by the entire family causes irritations to rise. Mary
Cate finds herself in a tug of war of emotions with the man of her
dreams. Can one crazy fast planned wedding bring them together
again or will Mary Cate decide she needs a man who can commit
instead of finding ways to go around commitment?

Caribbean bound with her best friend until a
sip of bad luck makes everything go foggy and dark. Next thing Katy
Beck knows is that either her best friend is playing a bad joke, or
she just stole her husband, her money and her looks. To make things
worse, she just got dumped on the porch of an old run down shack in
the middle of a mountain with only her beach bound attire.

Katy had a way of making the worse seem
better and maybe a good guardian angel or two. As luck would have
it, she was plopped right in the lap of one very hot war hero and
famous journalist. However, life isn’t always as easy as it seems
and Katy wants to make sure she offers more back in her life then a
set of DDs and a pretty smile.

With every trick of the trade, Sabrina left a
trail of misery for Katy. However, that is nothing a good sense of
humor and new friends can’t take care of. Plus, a little shiny
thing called gold doesn’t hurt either.