Not Quite Dating
By Catherine Bybee
Not Quite Series Book One
Publisher: Montlake
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Buy Links: Amazon (Paperback) | Amazon (Kindle)
Book Description:
Waitress and single mom Jessica “Jessie” Mann is practical to a fault. Even if she had time to date, which she doesn’t, she’d be determined to provide her son with a more secure upbringing than the one she had—and that would mean a husband with big bucks. When Jack Morrison—a sexy-as-sin, seemingly broke customer with a cowboy hat and a seductive grin—tries to flirt with her, she shoots him down. She doubts a carefree dreamer like Jack can provide the financial stability she needs. Yet with Christmas just weeks away, and Jessie not wanting to spend it alone, the charming Texan is proving hard to resist.
As the heir to the Morrison luxury hotel empire, Jack is used to being fawned over. But Jack needs someone who will fall in love with him—not his wealth. He’s set his sights on Jessie, though her hardened heart just might get in the way…To be sure, he conceals his true identity and offers to help Jessie find the rich husband she seeks. But Jack’s daring charade may rob him of the holiday wish he wants most of all…
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Thanks for having me on your blog today, Arianne.
As some of you know, the opening pages of Not Quite Dating take place in a diner during the graveyard shift. Jessie, my heroine, has no choice but to work the late shift so she can leave her days open to care for her son. I’ve waited tables in many restaurants in my early years. I’ve met plenty of interesting characters both as co-workers and as patrons.
Graveyard is one of those shifts where you witness a different crowd than you would at any other time in the day. You have the after two AM crowd…the ones stumbling in from the local bar that just closed. You have the four AM crowd…the ones shoveling in breakfast before they hit the freeway in an attempt to avoid heavy traffic. Once in a while you had a bus full of travelers using the restaurant as a pit stop. Nothing like filling up the restaurant when you only have one or two servers working.
What I found most interesting in my years of waiting tables, was that the night crowd was very consistent. The same people came in several times a week at the exact same time and ordered the exact same food. These customers were usually alone…in the restaurant and in life.
Mr. Richardson…the lone man sitting at the counter eating pancakes in Not Quite Dating, was one of those men. A lonely guy who didn’t have a wife…didn’t have anyone to talk to. So he’d come in every night, eat his pancakes, and read his paper.
I enjoyed my time waiting tables. Not because the work was so fulfilling ( it isn’t ) but because I met a lot of interesting people. All with their own stories to tell.
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About the Author:
New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee was raised in Washington State, but after graduating high school, she moved to Southern California in hopes of becoming a movie star.
After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms.
She now writes full-time and has penned the novels Wife by Wednesday and Married by Monday. Bybee lives with her husband and two teenage sons in Southern California.
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