The Art of Getting Off

By Alexandra Alan

FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR ALEXANDRA ALAN

A blizzard, a crush and a gallon of innuendo heat up a cabin...

“Sign up for skiing lessons, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Ha!”

It's taken one month for Kalie Bowen to realize she hates bruising both her ass and her ego on top of a frigid mountain. It's taken her less than a month to develop a colossal crush on her skiing instructor, Dex McCann.

He's not only handsome, but also patient and supportive, whether she's face-planting into the snow in front of him...or having to be talked off a ski lift. He's even rearranged his schedule so he can accommodate her request for a lesson on Christmas; she can't help but wonder what he looks like without his goggles. And his clothes.

When a blizzard rolls across the mountains and forces Kalie and Dex to seek shelter in his cabin, the sparks between them fly faster than the ones in his wood stove. Kalie finds that Dex is very happy to teach her the art of getting off—even when there's no ski lift involved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
• Release date: Aug 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839435324

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ALEXANDRA ALAN

The Art of Getting Off

ISBN # 978-1-83943-532-4

©Copyright Alexandra Alan 2021

Cover Art by Claire Siemaszkiewicz ©Copyright August 2021

Interior text design by Claire Siemaszkiewicz

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A blizzard, a crush and a gallon of innuendo heat up a cabin…

Sign up for skiing lessons, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Ha!

It’s taken one month for Kalie Bowen to realize she hates bruising both her ass and her ego on top of a frigid mountain. It’s taken her less than a month to develop a colossal crush on her skiing instructor, Dex McCann.

He’s not only handsome, but also patient and supportive, whether she’s face-planting into the snow in front of him or having to be talked off a ski lift. He’s even rearranged his schedule so he can accommodate her request for a lesson on Christmas. Katie can’t help but wonder what he looks like without his goggles…and his clothes.

When a blizzard rolls across the mountains and forces Kalie and Dex to seek shelter in his cabin, the sparks between them fly faster than the ones in his wood stove. Kalie finds that Dex is very happy to teach her the art of getting off—even when there’s no ski lift involved.

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Chapter One

You can do this.

N-no.

Come on, Kalie.

I can’t.

You have to.

There’s no way. No way.

Just relax. Take a deep breath. Let go.

But—

I’m right here. I’ll catch you.

Kalie Bowen tightened her grip on the brightly painted pole on the side of the padded chair. Even through her thick mittens, she could feel the coldness of the metal.

This was how she was going to die. And it would be horrible and embarrassing, because even though she’d never heard about anyone dying after getting stuck on a ski lift when they were dangling in the air barely higher than the outstretched fingertips of their super-attractive ski instructor, this was how it was going to happen anyway.

There was a good view, at least. Snow-capped peaks jutted into a crystal-blue sky, bushy pine trees sagged under the weight of fresh powder, and skiers carved perfect ‘S’ curves into the slope.

Oh, and on top of everything else, today was Christmas.

She was going to die on Christmas Day, falling eight feet from the ski lift meant to take children up the bunny slope.

When she’d signed up for private ski lessons a month ago, she’d filled out the questionnaire with her address and insurance information and signed on the line that said she wouldn’t sue the crap out of the resort if she broke anything. She’d skipped over the section for listing any pertinent information her instructor should know. In hindsight, it would have been a good idea to write ‘not super okay with heights,’ but of course, when she’d been filling out the paperwork, it hadn’t seemed important.

The first few times she’d gotten off the lift had been shaky, but acceptable.

"There’s an art to it," her instructor, Dex, had said. It was all about relaxing. Easy for him to say.

A gust of wind, which on the ground would have been refreshing, rocked the chair. Kalie’s stomach settled into her ski boots, and her mittened grip tightened on the chair’s pole.

You can do this, Dex said again.

Kalie whimpered.

It would be much better if Dex weren’t super attractive. Sure. That could make