SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN
Synopsis:
Four single girls + Four sexy men = Trouble for one confirmed bachelorette who just wants to hang with her amigas!
Reporter Sylvia Amenabar loves her vida loca. Just months ago, she and her three best friends—Adriana, Juli, and Tori—were happily single, hoisting mojitos at their weekly get-together. Now, everything’s changed. All four women have sexy men in their lives—and Sylvia’s not sure she likes it that way.
Ever since handsome cop Carlos Ramirez took a bullet for Sylvia after an investigative report went south, she’s been fighting their intensifying attraction. Sure, he’s gorgeous and great in bed—and nearly died for her—but Sylvia has sworn never to let a man be in a position to break her heart that way her father did by abandoning her and her mother.
Besides, who has time for the whole the relationship dance? Sylvia’s got a reputation to maintain as Miami’s hottest new journalist. But when her latest assignment threatens to smear Adriana’s boyfriend, Riley, and too-good-to-be-true Carlos, and her mother is hell-bent on reuniting with her father, Sylvia finds that life and love and family aren’t things you can control!
Reunite with the girls from Sex and the South Beach Chicas in award-winning author Caridad Piñeiro’s
SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MANBook Excerpt:
Sylvia Amenabar's life was anything but ordinary thanks to three sex-crazed friends, a mother who was a witch and an undercover detective with whom she had yet to get under the covers. But Sylvia loved her less than fairy tale life and wouldn't change anything about it -- except possibly the part about not being beneath the covers with Carlos, the Bad Boy detective who had turned out to be a Prince. Come to think of it, on top of the covers or on the floor or even on the kitchen counter would do. In reality, anywhere would do since all Sylvia could think about was having wild monkey sex with Carlos once he got out of the hospital. Of course, Carlos might interpret the having sex part as meaning more than just having sex, which complicated things. Sylvia wasn't sure that she was ready for anything more . . . involved. Her friends -- now happily in the throes of committed relationships -- would say she had intimacy issues and they would be totally right. She didn't trust men. In fact, as far as she was concerned men were dogs. She would allow, however, for a few rare exceptions. The problem was that she didn't know enough about Carlos to be able to decide if he was one of those exceptions which was the reason why she wasn't ready for anything hinting at a Happily-Ever-After kind of ending. But she was ready for sex with him. More than ready for it. As her mother had warned her months earlier, Sylvia had met a man who had started an itch. Maybe sex with Carlos would satisfy that itch, although her mama, witch that she was for putting such a curse on her, would argue that with some men not even sex was enough. Not that her mama was any kind of expert on that, Sylvia thought as she walked out of the elevator in Miami's Jackson Memorial and toward Carlos's hospital room. Thirty years earlier, her mama had picked the absolutely wrong man. One who had impregnated her and then skipped out on most of his fatherly duties. She should be grateful that her father had at least provided for her financially, but that hadn't made up for the missing dad on birthdays, holidays and on those days when life wore you down and you needed someone to hold onto. Her mama had always been that someone and of course, her friends. They had been there for her nearly a month earlier when Carlos had been shot protecting her. Which added guilt with a capital G to the list of reasons why she wasn't necessarily ready for anything more serious with Carlos. Her first investigative report on drug dealing in the South Beach hotspots had nearly gotten Carlos killed as he threw his body in front of hers when the drug dealers had opened fire. They had been angry that her article in the glossy monthly magazine had called attention to their activities, almost immediately creating increased scrutiny on them and a drop in business. Carlos, she thought, pausing at his door and taking a deep breath. Prince or a Bad Boy Frog? she asked herself yet again, but told herself she didn't have to make that decision right at that moment.
She still had a little time.
Author Comment:
After writing SEX AND THE SOUTH BEACH CHICAS and seeing the reader response to Sylvia and her mom, I knew that I had to write their story. SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN is not just about women and their relationships with their men, but also about women and the balancing act that they do with their friends and mothers. In CATCH THEIR MAN, I also got to explore what it is like for a vital and successful 40something woman who is taking a second chance at love.
Topics/Categories:
friends, investigation, latina fiction, Mothers, Relationships, Romance, South Beach, women's fiction
Genre:
Latino Literature, Romance, Women's Literature
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Original Publish Date:
2007-09-11
ISBNs:
1416514899
Publishing Notes:
Short Teaser “You’ll come home from the hospital with me.” Sylvia said, stunning everyone in the room, including herself. “With you?” Carlos asked, his look dubious as he tightened his hold on her hand to keep her from retracting the offer. Sylvia did, in fact, reconsider – for about a millisecond – but then she imagined Carlos in her apartment. Sitting at her table. Sleeping in her bed. Any and all reasons why this might be a bad idea flew out of her head with the last image.
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