Will & Parker Wake Up
Married by Leta Blake & Alice Griffiths
(Wake Up Married, ep 1)
Published 27th of October
2015 by Leta Blake Books
Word count: 32K ǀ heat: 2
Contemporary Comedy Romance
Join the wild ride in this
vibrant and fun first installment of the new romantic comedy serial by
best-selling author Leta Blake and newcomer Alice Griffiths!
After a drunken night of hot
sex in Vegas, strangers Will Patterson and Dr. Patrick McCloud wake up married.
A quickie divorce is the most obvious way out—unless you’re the heir of a
staunchly Catholic mafia boss with a draconian position on the sanctity of
marriage.
Stuck between a rock and a
hard place, Will and Patrick don't like it, or each other, but they have to
make the best of it until they can find another way out of their marriage. To
ensure the trust fund Will's charitable foundation relies on isn't revoked by
his mobster grandfather, he and Patrick travel to Will’s hometown of Healing,
South Dakota, posing as a newlywed couple in the throes of true love at first
sight.
Complicating their scheme
are Will’s unresolved feelings for his all-too-recent ex-boyfriend Ryan, and
Patrick’s desire to get back to the only thing that really matters to him in
life: neurosurgery. Will they fool everyone? Or will the mafia get wind that
their marriage is a fake? Throw their simmering attraction into the mix and all
bets are off!
Episode 1 of 6 in the Wake Up Married Serial.
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Excerpt
Patrick sits down beside
Will and rubs his hands together in anticipation. “So, what did Granny say? Can
she free me from the shackles of our loveless union?”
Will puts his head in his hands.
“It’s not going to be as easy as I hoped initially. It might take some time.”
“We knew that. How much
time? A week? Two?”
“Maybe a month?”
“What?” Patrick’s voice is
loud.
“Maybe more than a month?
Possibly up to a year?”
Patrick’s eyes grow dark
with anger. "Don’t tell me the all-powerful Eleanora Molinaro you were
going on about so enthusiastically when you were convincing me of this
half-baked scheme can’t make a little inadvertent marriage disappear.”
“Could you hold it down?”
Will whispers. "Or do you want someone to hear?”
“Oooh, right, the Molinaro
spies. Might have the place bugged. Guess I shouldn’t yell then? I’m not your
toy, Will. I want a divorce and I want one now,” Patrick hollers.
Will glares at him. He
raises his own voice, saying, “Don’t be so dramatic, baby!”
He stares Patrick down,
daring him to say something else. "You know I love you more than life!”
Patrick looks daggers at
him. "Who do you think you’re fooling, Will? The bellhops? The maids?” He
wipes a hand across his face and rises. "You know, no. I can’t believe
I’ve let your paranoia and insanity drag me across the country into this hornet’s
nest of absurdity and—”
Patrick rants on, but Will’s
not paying attention anymore, because Patrick’s tossing his new clothes onto
the bed, and getting out his suitcases.
“Wait,” Will says, putting
his hands on Patrick’s arms. "Wait, don’t.”
Patrick throws a shirt into
the bag and sighs. "What do you want from me? I gave your plan a chance,
but there is no way in hell I’m going to hang around this town for a year. Not
when I could be at the Mayo Clinic or Cedars-Sinai or Vandy. Not when I can be
honing my skills and expanding my practice. I am not small-town material, Will.
I’m the big-time. I have absolutely no desire to play your loving spouse
indefinitely and if your grandmother can’t get us out of this mess? Well, I
sure as hell can.”
“Look,” Will says. "I
know you can. I just need you...no, no, stop that. You’re not going anywhere.”
Will pushes Patrick, trying to move him away from the bags.
Patrick lurches toward him,
gripping his forearms and shoving him back with surprising strength. "I’ve
been pushed around enough in my life, Will. Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going
to take care of this my way.”
Will breathes in hard.
Terror and attraction jolts through him at once. He swallows and backs away
from Patrick, his hands shaking, and his throat dry. Blood rushes in his ears.
Patrick picks up his bag and
heads for the door. Will tries to block Patrick from getting it open.
“Really? It’s come to this?
Holding me against my will?”
Will pushes the barely open
door shut with a hard slam. “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Patrick.
This is just our first lover’s spat. That’s all. The first of many to come in
our long, wonderfully happy marriage.”
Patrick stares at him like
he’s kind of impressed by this level of insanity. “Good God, you’re drinking your
own Kool-Aid.”
“Yeah, well, it’s a very,
very expensive drink.”
“You think you’re so clever
don’t you?”
Will shrugs. "I think I
don’t know what else to do.”
Author Bio
Leta Blake
Author of the bestselling
book Smoky Mountain Dreams and the fan favorite Training Season, Leta Blake's
educational and professional background is in psychology and finance,
respectively. However, her passion has always been for writing. She enjoys
crafting romance stories and exploring the psyches of made up people. At home
in the Southern U.S., Leta works hard at achieving balance between her day job,
her writing, and her family.
You
can find out more about her by following her online
Alice Griffiths
A long-time reader of
romance novels, Alice Griffiths finally took the plunge into writing, teaming
up with best-selling author Leta Blake for the 'Woke up Married' serialized
comedy. A lover of tropes, Alice enjoys mining old ideas and putting a fresh,
funny spin on them. Formerly working in the newspaper industry, Alice is now an
art curator. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
You
can find out more about her by following her online
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