Use Somebody is Beck Anderson's
newest Hollywood standalone!
Releasing October 8th.
Now Available for Pre-order!
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Blurb
Jeremy King, Hollywood über-agent to the stars, knows that
sharks gotta swim. He’s one of them, after all. He’s never met a deal he
couldn’t strike or an argument he couldn’t win. LA is his kind of town—they
both never stop moving.
So when his friend and client, movie star Andrew Pettigrew,
invites him on a “man-cation” to the wilds of Idaho for a little fly-fishing,
Jeremy’s not so sure. He might not have cell service. There’s no way there’ll
be any supermodels to woo. And his idea of the great outdoors is a drive down
the Pacific Coast Highway in his Tesla Model S—moose definitely do not factor
into the picture.
Fitting then that because of a moose, he meets Macy Shea
Summerlin, the best fly-fishing guide on the South Fork. Jeremy’s surprised and
tantalized, but Macy isn’t having any of his alpha male posturing. She gives as
good as she gets, and she knows how to throw a mean right hook.
As the two of them get tangled up in each other’s lives,
both Jeremy and Macy must come to terms with winning and losing and letting
love in. And Jeremy has to find the answer to his own question: Is he simply
“using” Macy or could he really “use” someone like her? Find out in Use
Somebody, book 3 of the Fix You series.
Excerpt
We stand in a ridiculous line (my opinion) to grab a coffee
at the original Starbucks, and Macy pulls out her phone.
“Now we’ll take our coffees and go
drink them somewhere cool.” She pulls me along back the way we came, hops on
the Link again, headed back toward the hotel.
“Where is this cool place?” I fight the urge to take the
reins. She’s lost. We’re headed nowhere.
“Just wait. It’s gonna be cool. I asked the concierge about
it before you got up, too, so it’s not just me and Google that thinks so.”
We walk a short block in the opposite direction of the
hotel, past the gleaming steel and glass public library, which Macy takes
several pictures of as we walk.
We cross the street, and she walks up to the front doors of
a grey stone modern office building.
“What?” I feel a little unsettled. I’m the one who does the
surprising.
“Trust me.” She takes my hand and pulls me in through the
revolving doors.
We get on the elevator, and she presses the button for the
seventh floor.
“Okay.” I stand next to her, but I’m concentrating mostly on
the way it feels to have her hand on mine. I think about her lips on mine, her
hips against mine…
And then she coughs. It’s two, quick coughs, but there’s
that rattle again.
And my mind’s back on the business of keeping her well,
keeping her safe.
We get off the elevator. She looks like a kid with a great
secret. “Just wait. This is so cool.”
“You haven’t been here, how do you know?”
“Don’t be a crank. Nobody likes the stick in the mud.”
“Fine.”
She pulls me through another set of chrome and glass doors.
And yeah, she’s right. It’s pretty cool.
So apparently Macy from Teton County, Idaho, has discovered
the rooftop park hidden in the middle of downtown Seattle. And it’s gorgeous.
She hands me my coffee and walks over to the railing. The sun is out, and the
water and the waterfront is laid out in front of us.
“There’s the Space Needle! We’re going there later today.
After dinner.”
I laugh. “Are you at least going to let me pick a spot for
dinner?”
“Do you want to?” She doesn’t look like she wants me to.
“There’s a great place I know, and it’s a short walk from
the hotel.”
“Fine.” She takes a sip from her coffee and looks out over
the view.
I kiss her on the cheek again. “Don’t sulk.”
She turns and kisses me full-on, on the lips, for the
briefest possible moment, before pulling away and facing out to the view again.
“I’m not.” I taste mint and feel sparks down to the base of my spine.
Then she smiles the slyest, crookedest grin I’ve seen. I
haven’t seen her smile like that.
And I grin back.
About Beck Anderson
Beck Anderson is a two-time Rita© finalist and author of
four novels including the Fix You series
and The Jeweler. She’s also a wife, a
mom, an educator, and a walker of a small, bossy dog-slash-evil genius.
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