Fighting
Dirty
Worth the Fight #5
By: Sidney Halston
Released January
5, 2016
Loveswept
Loveswept
Blurb
If you
love the MMA romances of Vi Kreeland and Kendall Ryan, Sidney Halston’s Worth
the Fight series will knock your socks off! In Fighting Dirty, a geek-chic cage
fighter proves that appearances can be deceiving . . . and oh-so-tempting.
With his
preppy clothes and horn-rimmed glasses, Enzo Silva is the last dude anyone
expects to find in a mixed martial arts gym. A wealthy Brazilian banker who
never had to fight for anything, Enzo’s stuck in the amateur circuit—but he
burns to make the pros. Maybe that explains the heat he feels whenever he’s
around Jamie Lynn Calhoun. The pint-size, magenta-haired bartender with the
Texas drawl is everything he’s not . . . and everything he craves.
Tough as
nails and independent to a fault, Jamie Lynn—JL to her friends—works hard to
pay her bills and keep life simple. Enzo is doing his best to complicate that.
Even though she likes to bust his balls, he’s got some kind of a nerdy-hot vibe
that makes JL wonder if she might finally be able to let her guard down. It
might do the boy some good to spend some time in her world, where blood, sweat,
and victory are as sweet as the first taste of real love.
Excerpt:
“What made you change your mind about going
out with me?” he asked as they crossed the parking lot. “Not that I’m
complaining. But you’ve been saying no for almost a year.”
“Truth?”
“Always.”
“You always seem so predictable,
but you doing this . . .” She shook her head. “I guess it made me see you in a
different light.”
He held her car door open for her
as she tucked the canvas facedown in the backseat and then got in the car. “I’m
glad it took me completely humiliating myself to get you to go out with me.
Maybe I won’t kill your brother for this ridiculous bet, after all,” he said.
“I’ll make reservations at the Tackle Box and pick you up at eight tomorrow.”
When she looked at him for a moment too long, he said, “You don’t like the
Tackle Box?”
“Do you work tomorrow?” she asked
as she got back out of the car.
“Yes.”
“That was a dumb question. You’re
always working. Let me rephrase the question. Can you take the day off
tomorrow?”
Enzo quickly thought about all the
teleconferences he had scheduled and all the reports he had to do. “I can.”
“Okay, so I’ll pick you up at
eight.”
“Uh . . . I don’t understand.”
“Eight in the morning,” she clarified. “I asked you out, so I pick. That’s the
deal, okay? It’s my treat. I pick where we go and what we do.”
“I don’t think—”
“You hate giving up control, don’t
you?” she asked wryly, already knowing the answer. “Don’t worry so much. Just
be ready. It’ll be fun—spontaneous. You’ll like it. I promise.”
He let out a breath. “Fun and
spontaneous isn’t something I’m very comfortable with,” he admitted. But then
he decided, What the hell? He’d already survived taking the biggest leap of faith of
his life by moving from Brazil to Florida, something that was so completely out
of character his parents thought he was still mourning the end of his marriage.
So, going on a date with a beautiful woman and letting her take the lead . . .
what could possibly go wrong?
“Okay, fine. I’ll text you my
address,” he said as he leaned in and kissed her cheek. She folded herself into
her crappy fifteen-year-old Honda Civic, which was mostly red, except for some
patches where the paint had chipped off. The bumper was held together with a
hot-pink bungee cord, and there were bumper stickers plastered everywhere. He
couldn’t picture her with any other car but this one; somehow it suited her
perfectly. But she was absolutely out of her mind if she thought he’d be going
anywhere with her in that clunker tomorrow.
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Author Info
Sidney Halston lives her life
by one simple rule: “Just do it.” And that’s exactly what she did. At the age
of thirty, having never written anything other than a legal brief, she picked up
a pen for the first time to pursue her dream of becoming an author. That first
stroke sealed the deal, and she fell in love with writing. Halston lives in
South Florida with her husband and children.
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