Wanna Make A Bet is an delightful read from Stacy Dawn, and is available through The Wild Rose Press.
Sophie Montgomery has moved to the small town of Graceport to be with her friend Julia and put a bad situation behind her. A tenant of Jay Coltrane she baby-sits his bulldog, Harvey for him during the day. Jay finds Sophie to be a sexy distraction, but she is his friend as well as tenant and besides she keeps her distance from him.
Sophie is a talented artist who is slowly building clientele and realizing a dream, the last thing she needs is an entanglement with the sexy, playboy, the likes of Jay. She is never going to settle down and give up her dreams not that Jay was a settling kind of guy. Harvey is the most loveable dog in the world, who is as spoilt as they come. With Julia’s upcoming marriage to Dan, Jay’s best friend, he stands to win the bet made back in college with his five friends on who would be single last. Over the years it has become a sizeable pot to win.
When Sophie proclaims to her friends that she is immune to Jay because they want to push her in his direction, one of them lets it slip to Jay. Both being stubborn and not wanting to back down Jay says “Wanna make a bet?”. Sophie has no alternative but to accept the bet but with conditions of her own, not counting on just what an affect Jay will have on her. She soon finds she is fighting a losing battle as the two are like matches being struck in a dry forest.
Sophie and Jay have problems and baggage to settle along the way which only makes this a more believable story with the ups and downs of the inner battles that they both have going on. This was a realistic, delightful read, with the added romance of Julia and Dan which only strengthened the story. I would give this a book rating of five, and urge you to go to Wild Rose Press and give this book a read.
