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    While You Were Writing: Watkin's Pond, #2
    While You Were Writing: Watkin's Pond, #2
    While You Were Writing: Watkin's Pond, #2
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    While You Were Writing: Watkin's Pond, #2

    By Virginia Nelson

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    Bestselling author and infamous town hermit Radcliffe McQueen knows what he likes, what he doesn't, and refuses to pretend social niceties—particularly with a red-hot mess of a woman who's taken it upon herself to smooth his rough edges. She thinks she can change him? Bring it. He's more than willing to teach her the wisdom of doing things his way. Besides, having her around might distract him from the horror of facing the blinking cursor of writer's block.

    Stodgy. Stubborn. Sanctimonious. Sheri Riddle can think of a long list of adjectives to describe her newest project. An artist by trade, a personality renovator by calling, she's sure she can transform the blockheaded author into a reasonably personable human being.

    Yet as they lock horns, each scrapes away layers of the other until something happens that's quite outside of Sheri's plans. Something that'll take more than one taste of passion to satisfy…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVirginia Nelson
    Release dateSep 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386649755
    While You Were Writing: Watkin's Pond, #2
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    Virginia Nelson

    Virginia Nelson likes knights in rusted and dinged up armor, heroes that snarl instead of croon, and heroines who can't remember to say the right thing even with an author writing their dialogue. Her books are full of snark, sex, and random acts of ineptitude--not always in that order.

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