Gund’s stern face grew pink, as it always did when she warmed up to her second favorite topic, after Maribel’s occasional lack of focus. Vat is this engaged, ven your man never even visits?” Mrs. “We have da most attractive fellows in California about to valk in our door-hero firemen-and you dress like a farmer.” They were cute, right? In a retro kind of way? “What’s wrong with what I’m wearing?” Maribel looked down at her denim overalls. “Maribel, vat is that you are vearing today?” Gund, whose tight gray curls were tucked into a hairnet, did a double take. “Two Lazy Morning Specials for table six.” Mrs.

Maribel left the coffeemaker and hurried to the opening between the grill and the counter. The Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel often showed up at this time of day, they always wanted lots of coffee, and shouldn’t Maribel know all this by now? Gund’s grumbles, which no doubt went along familiar lines. She ran to the coffeepot and quickly filled a new filter. “I’m on it!” Maribel shot a glance at the gleaming red fire engine that had just pulled up to the curb. Gund called to Maribel from the Lazy Daisy grill, where she was managing twenty breakfast orders with the logistical skill of an air traffic controller. “HERE THEY COME! Do we haf enough coffee?” Mrs. An Excerpt from Sex and the Single FiremanĪn Excerpt from Three Schemes and a Scandal by Maya RodaleĪn Excerpt from Skies of Steel by Zoë ArcherĪn Excerpt from Further Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman by JB LynnĪn Excerpt from The Second Seduction of a Lady by Miranda NevilleĪn Excerpt from To Hell and Back by Juliana StoneĪn Excerpt from Midnight in Your Arms by Morgan KellyĪn Excerpt from Seduced by a Pirate by Eloisa James

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