Ripe for Trouble: Love n Trouble, #3

By Autumn Piper

He's the mistake she always wanted to make … and now is her chance.

Ivy Leeds, high school valedictorian and president of the Brainiac Club, never fit in to her little hometown of Rifle, Colorado. Pretty and smart, but painfully shy, she hid behind an icy facade. Until the disastrous prom night when she tried to give it up to her secret crush, bad boy Ridley Tucker … only to be turned down.

She's back in town with a degree from Yale, her dream job in publicity, and new confidence in herself as a woman. But will all this protect her heart when she meets the adult--and even sexier--version of Ridley … and learns the show she'll be producing for reality TV is centered around his custom cycle shop?

Ridley Tucker, a boy who hid his alcoholic parents' neglect behind a tough façade, has come up in the world in a big way. Instead of scoring with every pretty woman he meets, he's the owner of a lucrative business, and single dad to little RJ. But he still likes to knock a few back with his buddies, and have a few laughs. It just figures that the time they try to outdo each other with raunchy pickup lines, he'll find Ivy 'League' is back in town, and listening in. 

She looks even better than she did that night at Prom, but now she won't give him the time of day. Until the night they let old friends egg them on in a drinking contest, and end up together in the hottest night of their lives. They're both ripe for a fall … but will the landing hurt them both, or be the start of something wonderful?

WARNING: A reformed bad boy can heat up that high school flame into a combustion suitable for adults only.

Don't miss out on this hot, sexy ride—get your copy of Ripe for Trouble today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Autumn Piper
• Release date: Jul 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781533757074

Autumn Piper

Born and raised in itty-bitty Rifle, Colorado, Autumn Piper studiously avoided trouble…but is now inclined toward it, particularly in her novels. She thinks the best things in life are funny, and the runners-up, romantic. An admitted carb addict, Autumn writes, edits, and cares for her two grown kids, a cat, a box turtle with a huge personality, one husband and many supersize houseplants, and does the cooking and cleaning when forced to.

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Contents

Copyright

Cover Copy

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright 2016 by Autumn Piper

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Cover Art provided by Sutton Fox.

Edited by Mary Murray.

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The biggest mistake she didn’t quite make just sauntered back into her life.

When Ivy Leeds takes a publicity job in her hometown, few things have changed...except Ridley, the bad boy of her graduating class, has cleaned up his act. Or so everyone else thinks. After hearing him and his friend practicing pickup lines, she has her doubts.

Ridley Tucker can hardly believe his eyes when Ivy, the president of the Brainiac Club, comes back to town. Some things never change—she’ll barely give him the time of day, and she still looks as good as she did that night at Prom.

Living in a small town means it’s nearly impossible to avoid anyone, and those most worthy of avoidance turn up in such awkward places...

Content Warning: High school flame revisited plus reformed bad-boy equals combustion suitable for adults only.

For every girl who’s loved a bad boy (reformed or not)

Chapter 1

Get me some fries to go with that shake, right? Ridley Tucker elbowed his buddy Miguel and indicated the hot specimen helping some little kid load a big pumpkin into a wagon.

Miguel whistled. Damn. All those curves, and me with no brakes.

No kidding. The last time he’d seen a chick rock denim overalls must’ve been Daisy Duke. The long, long braid almost down to her waist should’ve been boring, but he’d like to undo it and run his fingers through that hair.

Hey bro, go over and introduce yourself. Put an end to the dry spell, huh? Miguel gave him a shove in her direction.

Speaking of dry spells... Where’d RJ go? Ridley scanned the area and found his tow-headed three-year-old squatting in front of a tiny pumpkin, running his little hand over it the same way he petted the kittens in back of the shop at home.

I’ll keep him company. Go make your move.

Right. Like, what am I supposed to say? He was a little rusty. Make that a lot rusty. Single dad-dom had a way of slowing down even the smoothest players.

Miguel shrugged. How ’bout, What are you doing tonight? Besides me.

Too crude, unless I’m looking to get slapped. He lowered his voice to its deepest. Hey baby, you got something on your butt. My eyes.

Miguel cracked up, but then immediately went sober. Ah... He pointed over Ridley’s shoulder.

She’s behind me, isn’t she? Of course she was.

Think lil RJ needs me. Miguel turned tail and hurried over