Welcome to Snippet Sunday again, where writers share 8 to 10 sentences from a current WIP (work in progress) or past work.

My sentences are the 4th installment from His Small Town Princess, a work in progress and the 3rd novel in my Sweetwater Springs series. These books are sensual contemporary romance full of Southern, small town USA charm and are both humorous and emotional.

To read the previous installments, they are #1: HERE and #2: HERE and #3: HERE In this scene for #SnippetSunday, J.T and Cass were doing some heavy flirting in the greenhouse/plant nursery one morning when her phone signaled an incoming text. J.T. picks up her phone, sees the text is from “Randy,” then looks at her as if asking permission to read it. She shrugs, and now, here’s more of the story:

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“He says he’s looking forward to your date tonight and will pick you up at six thirty.”

What God-awful timing.

“I’ll cancel,” she said while reaching for her phone, but J.T. held it out of her reach, his jaw jutting forward.

“Don’t ever toy with me again, Cass.”

“But, I—”

“No excuses!” he ground out through clenched teeth while taking a step back. “I get that you’re spoiled and may be used to having a string of men, but I don’t operate like that. I don’t date or have casual sex, because I’ve got kids and a mortgage and a business to run. Playing sex games isn’t even on my radar, so let’s keep things all business between us. Save your kisses and flirting for Randy, who probably lives up to his name.”

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J.T. Baxter is having a very bad year. As if adjusting to widower status and caring for two sons, weren’t enough, he has a landscaping business to keep afloat with a loan coming due. The last thing he needs is the town princess waltzing into his life with a business proposal he can’t afford to refuse.

Cassandra Bing feels adrift after her father’s death, a nasty broken engagement and enduring a job she loathes. She’s searching for her niche, something that would’ve made her dad proud and will bring her fulfillment. But gardening is a hot, dirty business, and soon she’s wishing she’d made a different sort of proposition to the sexy dad.

As an affair escalates between J.T. and Cass, tensions grow in a house where secrets fester. Can her presence begin to heal the Baxter household, or will their tender feelings become a casualty of the impending emotional storm?

A Small Town Princess will be released later this year. However, the first two books in the series are available in e-book and print. Click HERE for info, excerpts, reviews and buy links.

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