Sandra Hill - So Into You

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright 2009 by Sandra Hill

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First eBook Edition: August 2009

ISBN: 978-0-446-55205-9

Contents

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WILD JINX

Hill has filled this romance with her trademark whimsical humor, emotional dilemmas, and fun adventures. The characters are unforgettable and the dialogue clever more fun than a barrel of frogs in Bayou Black.

Booklist (starred review)

4 Stars! The newest Bayou sizzler This is the cure for the common blues!

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine

The story line combines plenty of humor with suspense, Cajun-style, as the LeDeux tribe up and meets the Jinx crew in an all-out wacky thriller.

Midwest Book Review

A thrilling, sexy romp through the Louisiana bayou Hill is a master at combining hot, sexy characters, quirky family members, and humor into a spellbinding story that is impossible to put down.

FallenAngelReviews.com

The riotous cast of characters will keep you laughing from cover to cover passionate encounters keep the sexual tension at a steady boil. The outlandish adventures of this wacky, wonderful family will make you wish you lived on the bayou!

FreshFiction.com

PEARL JINX

Some like it hot and hilarious, and Hill delivers both.

Publishers Weekly

A hysterical, fast-moving page-turner, and the sexy love story between Caleb and Clair make it an absolute must-read.

RoundtableReviews.com

4 Stars! Hills books [are] inventive and heart-tugging. They are guaranteed mood boosters!

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine

Hilarious The characters are colorful and vibrant, coming alive with every turn of the page Packed full of humor and adventure, sizzling SEAL sex, and enough romance to touch even the coldest heart A real pearl.

ARomanceReview.com

[Hill is] the queen of humorous contemporary romance The laughs keep coming The audience will appreciate this zany Keystone State caper.

Midwest Book Review

For a hilarious good time, readers cant go wrong with a Sandra Hill book. Pearl Jinx is loaded with charm, smart-alecky dialogue, adventure, and an endearing set of characters rollicking Hills signature style shines through.

SuspenseRomanceWriters.com

PINK JINX

Sandra Hill writes stories that tickle the funny bone and touch the heart. Her books are always fresh, romantic, inventive, and hilarious.

Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author

4 Stars! A hoot and a half! Snappy dialogue and outrageous characters keep the tempo lively and the humor infectious in this crazy adventure story. Hill is a master at taking outlandish situations and making them laugh-out-loud funny.

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine

Hill has yet again given us an adventure that is unbelievably funny! I am eagerly looking forward to another treasure-hunting book from the incomparable Sandra Hill.

TheBestReviews.com

A hilarious story filled with adventure, romance, danger, and mystery.

BookLoons.com

INDULGE IN THE CAJUN
BAD BOYS SERIES

THE RED-HOT CAJUN

Hills thigh-slapping humor and thoughtful look at the endangered Louisiana bayou ecosystem turn this into an engaging read.

Publishers Weekly

A brimming romance for people who like to laugh [and] people who like to cry.

Booklist

THE CAJUN COWBOY

Hill will tickle readers funny bones yet again as she writes in her trademark sexy style. A real crowd-pleaser, guar-an-teed.

Booklist (starred review)

A pure delight. One terrific read!

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine

TALL, DARK, AND CAJUN

If you like your romances hot and spicy and your men the same way, then you will like Tall, Dark, and Cajun Eccentric characters, witty dialogue, humorous situations and hot romance [Hill] perfectly captures the bayous mystique and makes it come to life.

RomRevToday.com

Tall, Dark, and Cajun

The Cajun Cowboy

The Red-Hot Cajun

Pink Jinx

Pearl Jinx

Wild Jinx

This book is dedicated to all those Hurricane Katrina survivors who are still struggling to regain their old lives. Tante Lulu recognized your bravery and needs in this book by establishing a new foundation. While her charity is a fictitious one, there are plenty of good ones out there. Its always amazing to see how we Americans pull together to help each other in times of natural disaster. If you feel touched by this book, and are so inclined, I have a list of some of the good Louisiana-based charities on my Web site at www.sandrahill.net

And this book is dedicated to my husband Robert C. Hill who, even though he is a stockbroker, has led and aided many a charitable endeavor in our region: The Second Mile, Make a Wish, and children/youth agencies. His generous spirit inspires us all.

A ngel Sabato stood at the edge of the dance floor like a dunce, shaking in his thousand-dollar Tres Outlaws boots as he watched the redhead shake her booty to the beat of Wild Thing. For an ex-nun, she sure had moves.

Ironically, he was the one feeling wild. His hands were clammy, his heart was thumpingda dump, da dump, da dumpand, truth to tell, he was scared spitless. Tonight was going to be the night. Do-or-die time.

It was ridiculous, really. He was thirty-four years old. Hed been around the block so many times there were probably street signs named after him. At the least, his tread marks were notorious. Shyness wasnt even in his vocabulary. After all, he was the dick-for-brains whod once bared it all for Playgirl magazine.

Just then the redhead in question, Grace OBrien, noticed him and smiled widely, crooking a forefinger for him to come out and join her.

Not a chance.

It wasnt dancing he had on his mind.

She said something to her partner, one of the young LeDeuxs a freshman at LSU. Then she left the kid behind and snaked a slow, sensuous boogie toward him, her twinkling green eyes holding his the entire time, her arms held out in front of her, fingers beckoning. She must be half plastered or, more likely, in a teasing mood.

He was not in the mood for teasing.

Yo, matey, she drawled at him.

This was the tail end of the Pirate Ball. It was being held here in Houma, Louisiana, to celebrate the successful search by Jinx, Inc., a treasure-hunting company, for Jean Lafittes hidden gold. Thus the silly pirate talk. Not to mention silly pirate costumes.

He and Grace had worked on the Jinx teams Pirate Project these past weeks. Before that theyd been professional poker players. And before that, Grace had been a nun, and he had been in the navy, then constructi="0on, and well, a lot of things.