Drive Me Wild

Informationen zum Autor Julie Ortolon is an award-winning author of contemporary romance. On the road to success! she overcame a battle with dyslexia that left her functionally illiterate until her mid-twenties! when she discovered that romance novels were worth the effort. Her struggles made hitting the USA Today bestseller list even more rewarding. When Ortolon isn’t writing or reading! she enjoys gardening! cooking! and traveling the world. You can learn more about her on her website. Klappentext HE WAS A DEVASTATING TV ANCHORMAN WHO THOUGHT HE'D SEEN IT ALL... With the face that launched a thousand newscasts! drop-dead-gorgeous TV anchor Brent Michaels returns to his Texas hometown -- to be the "bachelor" in a Dating Game fund-raiser. He can't refuse his old friend Laura Beth Morgan's request. And soon! he can't refuse the shy do-gooder anything. The tomboy he remembered had blossomed into a beautiful woman. An irresistible challenge for the man every woman wants... UNTIL HE REDISCOVERED THE GIRL NEXT DOOR Laura Morgan yearns to break free! just as Brent Michaels did. He'd come a long way from the boy who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks! the friend who kissed her once! then ran. But even as he warns her he's incapable of love! he's not running now. For Laura was stirring him like no woman had before! making him consider the "M" word for the first time! leaving him certain of only one thing: Laura Morgan could be his undoing. . . . "Hey, Michaels!" a gravelly voice shouted over the clamor of the newsroom. "Telephone!" Brent Michaels turned from the bank of TV monitors to see Connie Rosenstein, his news producer, waving a receiver over her head. The cord stretched across her cluttered desk to his immaculate one. "You want to take it?" she called. He glanced at one of the digital clocks mounted on every wall of the Houston newsroom. He had fourteen minutes, twenty-six seconds to air. Plenty of time. "Who is it?" "Claims to be an old high school friend from . . . Beason's Ferry?" Connie shrugged as if that meant it could be any one of a hundred people. Brent's chest gave an odd lurch at the mention of his hometown. "Did he give a name?" "No name. But it's definitely not a he." Connie's wink belied her tough-as-nails New York demeanor. Brent stared at her, unable to think of a single person he'd classify as an old friend from high school. A whirling click jarred him back to his senses as the tape finished downloading the satellite feed for his lead story. Handing the tape to a runner, he crossed to his desk. This close to airtime, the chaos was migrating down the hall to the control booths and set, leaving the newsroom quiet. Connie exhaled a cloud of smoke as she handed him the phone and gave her watch a warning tap. "I'll be right there," he assured her with a smile to hide his tension. Once she'd joined the exodus, he glanced at the receiver in his hand. He hadn't been back to Beason's Ferry since the day he'd left for college, had almost forgotten that sinking sensation in the center of his chest that came from being an outcast. How could something so simple as a phone in the palm of his hand bring it all back? Taking a deep breath, he steeled himself and brought the receiver to his ear. "Brent Michaels here." "Brent! Thank goodness I caught you." The soft voice conjured an unexpected memory of honeysuckle. "I'm so sorry to bother you right before the news, but I couldn't take a chance on waiting." Something in that voice made his pulse pick up speed. "Who is this?" "Oh, goodness." The honest laughter triggered his memory, and he pictured white-blond hair pulled back in a ponytail and wide blue eyes behind Coke-bottle glasses. "It's Laura. Laura Morgan." "Laura Beth?" The air left his lungs in a rush of relief. "Bre-ent. . . ." She dragged the name out in...

Product details

• Authors: Juéie Ortolon, Julie Ortolon
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2000
• EAN: 9780440236184
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23618-4
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 24 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature