My Favorite Book Boyfriend with Ruthie Knox and Giveaway

Ruthie Knox graduated from Grinnell College as an English and history double major and went on to earn a Ph.D. in modern British history that she’s put to remarkably little use. She debuted as a romance novelist with Ride with Me—probably the only existing cross-country bicycling love story yet to be penned—and followed it up with About Last Night, which features a sizzling British banker hero with the unlikely name of Neville. Other publications include Room at the Inn (a Christmas novella) and How To Misbehave, book 1 in the Camelot series. She moonlights as a mother, Tweets incessantly, and bakes a mean focaccia.

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The great thing about book boyfriends is that they can be men who would irritate and/or terrifyyou in real life. Which is why I can say, without shame, that my favorite book boyfriend is anenormous ex-con lumberjack who wears Carhartt pants and a knit cap, and who barely ever talks.

His name is Patrick, and he’s the hero of Cara McKenna’s erotic novel Ruin Me.

Also, you can’t have him. He’s mine.

My love for Patrick might have something to do with the fact that the heroine, Robin, met him when he rescued her from being assaulted in a bar’s parking lot. Or with the fact that the reason he was there was that he was trying to get up the nerve to talk to her.

Or it might be that I love Patrick because he’s so hopelessly in love with Robin that he’ll go along with whatever ridiculous conditions she comes up with for their relationship, up to and including having “anything but” sex with her whenever she feels like it, even though she continues to live with (and sleep with) her almost-fiancé, Jay. And being willing to go over toher house to have dinner with her and Jay and then, when challenged, to have a three-way withthem. Which ends up being the most awkward abortive three-way in the history of fiction.

But I think the truth is that I love Patrick because when he finally, finally gets his flawed, passive-aggressive, slightly screwed up girl, he kisses her right there and then, at a bar, for the entire length of the song “Jack and Diane.” And then, shortly thereafter, informs her that he’d kill someone to keep her.

Yeah. He’s that kind of guy. Hands off, ladies. All mine.

In her head, Robin wants to marry her boyfriend. Everything about her relationship with Jay makes sense-makes her happy-but she can't bring herself to accept his proposal. Her body has unfinished business with Patrick, the man who saved her life six years ago. For a long time she assumed her potent feelings for Patrick were born of fear, wrapped up in the night she was attacked, but now she's realizing it's far simpler than that. She wants him. Always has, always will.

More attached to Robin than the idea of her being faithful, Jay gives her the green light to go after Patrick in the hopes that it will demystify the man and get him out of Robin's system. It begs the question-if you've got permission, is it still cheating? And which will ultimately sway the heart-reason or attraction?

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He'll be any man she wants--except himself.

A Strangers on a Train story

Meet me at the train museum after dark. Dress for 1957.

When Mandy joins an online dating service, she keeps her expectations low. All she wants is a distraction from the drudgery of single parenthood and full-time work. But the invitation she receives from a handsome man who won’t share his real name promises an adventure—and a chance to pretend she’s someone else for a few hours.

She doesn’t want romance to complicate her life, but Mandy’s monthly role-playing dates with her stranger on a train—each to a different time period—become the erotic escape she desperately needs. And a soul connection she never expected.

Yet when she tries to draw her lover out of the shadows, Mandy has a fight on her hands…to convince him there’s a place for their fantasy love in the light of day.

Warning: Contains sexy role-playing, theatrical application of coal dust, and a hero who can rock a pair of brown polyester pants.

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