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Adams, Sarah

 
9780593871737: The Enemy: A Novel (It Happened in Nashville)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0593871731 ISBN 13: 9780593871737
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2024

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect comes an expanded edition of The Enemy—a laugh-out-loud romance about rekindling old flames, with a never-before-seen chapter.

Enemies should never get a second chance. But this one might.

It’s been twelve years since June Broaden has seen her high school enemy (and secret crush), Ryan Henderson. That’s a long time to hold a grudge over some petty feud, but the sharp memory of him dangling a kiss at graduation, then pulling away at the last second, has fueled many angry fantasies since. Now it’s her chance to get even.

Ryan, along with most of her high school class, is back in town for her best friend’s wedding, and June is eager to show the former bully exactly what he’s missed out on. A lot has changed since their teenage days; June is now the Southern queen of gourmet donuts , not to mention one of the most desired bachelorettes in her small town.

What’s she’s not expecting, though, is for Ryan to show up looking like Adonis and touting his own career success as the youngest chef to ever win three Michelin stars. How dare he try to one-up her revenge plot? Luckily, June never backs down from a challenge.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Adams is the New York Times bestselling author of The Cheat Sheet and Practice Makes Perfect. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she loves her family and warm days. Sarah has dreamed of being a writer since she was a girl, but finally wrote her first novel when her daughters were napping and she no longer had any excuses to put it off. Sarah is a coffee addict, a British history nerd, a mom of two daughters, married to her best friend, and an indecisive introvert. Her hope is to write stories that make readers laugh, maybe even cry—but always leave them happier than when they started reading.

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Chapter 1

June

It s been twelve years since I ve seen him.

Twelve years since his smug face leaned down to kiss me, stopped just before our mouths met, smirked, and then turned and walked out of my life forever. That day, I stood stunned and awestruck. I wish I had smashed his toes. Instead, I closed my eyes as he went in for the kill. I cringe, remembering how I tilted my chin up, feeling a chill trickle across my spine at the thought of him kissing me after spending our whole high school experience trying to kill each other. I acknowledged defeat the moment my eyes fluttered shut. I hate that he won our war back then.

But tonight . . . tonight, I resurrect the battle.

And victory will be mine.

No longer am I that naïve little graduate, excited for a kiss from the enemy. I m now thirty years old and majority owner of Darlin Donuts one of Charleston s top hot spots. My best friend, Stacy, and I opened the bakery three years ago, and we have been enjoying a nice bit of success ever since.

Not only am I the southern queen of the gourmet donut tycoon, but I m turning down men calling me up nightly for a date. Okay . . . nightly is a stretch. But it s definitely somewhere around three times a week. Twice a week. Once a week. Above average, okay?

Point is, I ve got a lot going for me now. Career success. Tons of friends because family makes the best friends, am I right? And I m at least four inches taller than I was in high school (read: two inches). Best of all, I ve perfected a killer winged eyeliner and paired it with a little black dress that has had men eyeballing me from across the bar all night long.

Sorry, boys. You can look, but you can t touch.

In short, I ve made sure that tonight the night I come face-to-face again with my archnemesis
I look the best I ve looked in my adult life. Because mark the words coming out of my red lips: Tonight, I will crush Ryan Henderson under my black stilettoed feet.

He will see all that he has missed out on and weep on the floor, clutching my legs, begging me to give him the kiss he left behind all those years ago.

And FINALLY, I hear the door squeak open. I wait, measuring the seconds passing by, the click, click, click of a woman s high heels drawing nearer.

Just a little closer.

Ugh. She passed me, choosing the far end of the row like a normal person. Why did I have to choose the middle?

Hey there! I call out. Why don t you take the one beside me?

Her clicks come to an abrupt halt, and suddenly, I m aware of how creepy I sounded.

Because . . . yeah, currently, I m sitting on a toilet with my fancy little cocktail dress hiked up to my hips and the telltale prickles of a woman who has had no choice but to sit on a toilet seat for far too long shooting down my legs.

Uh, I think I m okay with this stall. The woman is undoubtedly shooting off a frantic text to her date saying if she s not out of here in five minutes, it was the woman in the middle stall who killed her.

I laugh, trying to sound as little like a serial killer as possible, because any minute now, Ryan Henderson will be arriving at the party, and I need to be out there to see his ugly face first. (I m assuming he s ugly because it helps me sleep easier at night.)

Sorry, didn t mean to freak you out! I m normal, I swear. Just out of toilet paper over here and was hoping you could slip me a roll.

Oh. Her voice is still far away. She s not convinced I won t do something creepy if she comes near my stall.

Meanwhile, I m sitting over here, air-dryi

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Verlag
Random House Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593871731
ISBN 13 
9780593871737
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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