Bold Moves

By Isabelle Drake

Orderly and predictable describes Eva Marie's life, until she accepts the dare of a Brazilian soccer player with wicked moves and a notorious reputation.

The last thing Eva Marie needs right now, just as her event planning business is getting off the ground, is a man. Especially a sought after bachelor with a reputation for no-strings-attached, serial dating.

Famous Brazilian soccer player Davi Ferreira likes his games and women fast and flashy. Handsome and fit, he's never met a woman he couldn't quickly and easily charm into his bed. Until Eva Marie. When the opportunity to participate in her event, The Ultimate Bachelor' promises to give him one final chance to escape the friend zone, he eagerly accepts.

Thanks to a popular DC blog, people in Washington are watching the live stream featuring Eva Marie's event. Cameras cover everything, including Eva and Davi's ultra-sexy kiss. The steamy exchange sparks a firestorm of tweets that force Eva and Davi to settle a question posed by web viewers—was the sizzling kiss a promotional stunt or the real thing?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
• Release date: Feb 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781781849552

Isabelle Drake

Isabelle Drake got her start writing confession stories for pulp magazines like True Confessions and True Love. Since publishing those first few stories she has written in multiple genres, earned an MFA in Creative Writing and became an English & Writing Professor.When away from her keyboard, she watches films, especially classic noir, horror and romance, and reads (of course). An avid traveler, she'll go just about anywhere--at least once--to meet people and get ideas.Find Isabelle as Isabelle Drake on Facebook, Youtube and Goodreads & @isabelledrake on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr & isadrake on Snapchat.

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A Totally Bound Publication

Bold Moves

ISBN # 978-1-78184-955-2

©Copyright Isabelle Drake 2014

Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright January 2014

Edited by Rebecca Douglas

Totally Bound Publishing

This is a work of fiction. All characters, places and events are from the author’s imagination and should not be confused with fact. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, events or places is purely coincidental.

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Published in 2014 by Totally Bound Publishing, Newland House, The Point, Weaver Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QN

Warning:

This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature readers. This story has a heat rating of Totally Sizzling and a Sexometer of 1.

This story contains 32 pages, additionally there is also a free excerpt at the end of the book containing 9 pages.

Invitations

BOLD MOVES

Isabelle Drake

Book four in the Invitations series

Orderly and predictable describes Eva Marie’s life, until she accepts the dare of a Brazilian soccer player with wicked moves and a notorious reputation.

The last thing Eva Marie needs right now, just as her event planning business is getting off the ground is a man. Especially a sought after bachelor with a reputation for no-strings-attached serial dating.

Famous Brazilian soccer player Davi Ferreira likes his games and women fast and flashy. Handsome and fit, he’s never met a woman he couldn’t quickly and easily charm into his bed. Until Eva Marie. When the opportunity to participate in her event, ‘The Ultimate Bachelor’ promises to give him one final chance to escape the friend zone, he eagerly accepts.

Thanks to a popular DC blog, people in Washington are watching the live stream featuring Eva Marie’s event. Cameras cover everything, including Eva and Davi’s ultra-sexy kiss. The steamy exchange sparks a firestorm of tweets that force Eva and Davi to settle question posed by web viewers—was the sizzling kiss a promotional stunt or the real thing?

Dedication

For Barb:

oversized hats

soccer games

baking days

winey train rides

fierce fences

Trademarks Acknowledgement

The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:

Victoria’s Secret: Victoria’s Secret, L Brands Inc.

Pintrest: Pintrest

Facebook: Facebook, Inc.

Twitter: Twitter, Inc

Chapter One

Get your paddles ready, ladies. The bidding will start in fifteen minutes. The event announcer, a tall, bald man in a black suit standing in the middle of the stage gestured to the five men seated in the row of tall stools beside him. Each of the men waved and the crowd responded with a round of cheers and giddy, high-pitched laughter that blended well with the soft jazz playing in the background.

From her corner in the back of the small, low-lit ballroom of The Continental Hotel, Eva Marie watched as two-hundred and sixteen of Washington DC’s socially and politically connected women started waving numbered auction paddles, some using them to smack each other, others giggling nervously as they eyed the row of bachelors about to go up for sale.

Eva knew exactly how many women were clustered around the high-top tables and milling around the room because her new promotion company, Perfectly Professional, had put the event together. Ticket sales had fallen a little short of her goal of three-hundred, but if the auction went well, the event could still be a success. Eva was counting on success.

Thanks to a cross-promotion with DC’s popular blogger, Kelly M, she had gotten a deal on the space rental. But still, she’d invested nearly all of her available funds into the catering costs of this exclusive event, The Ultimate Bachelor. At a fundraising auction free wine for the guests was