She’s about to teach him a lesson he won’t soon forget.
Folk Around and Find out, an opposites attract, single parent contemporary
romance set in a small town from New York Times bestselling author Penny
Reid is out now!
He needs to get her out of his system. Just once...
Hank Weller doesn’t help people. He leaves that do-gooder nonsense to his
best friend, Beau Winston. Hank does what he wants, when he wants, with
whomever he wants—and Hank does not want to hire Charlotte Mitchell to be an
exotic dancer at his club, The Pink Pony. Sure, he can’t help noticing the dips
and curves of her, how shrewd, smart, and funny she is, the fire in her hazel
eyes. He's always noticed. She’d probably draw a crowd and entice the regulars.
But after Charlotte's messy, public divorce made Hank’s club out to be the culprit—and
made her the single mother of four kids—he doesn’t need or want any additional
bad press courtesy of Charlotte Mitchell. Or the distraction. Unfortunately for
him, the town’s prettiest charity case doesn’t seem to understand the meaning
of the words nope, no, and never.
Charlotte Mitchell doesn’t much like Hank Weller. Once upon a time, she
used to. Years ago, she liked him a whole heckofalot despite other folks in
town labeling him as “eccentric” and “nonconformist,” which were polite
southern alternatives to "filthy rich" and "self-centered
douchebag." Her opinion of him changed dramatically after he volunteered
to be her date to junior prom and then promptly stood her up. They haven't so
much as acknowledged each other in over a decade. But a sudden family emergency
means Charlotte needs access to Hank’s club ASAP. Unfortunately for her, the
narcissistic fancy-pants doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of the words
help, generosity, and compassion.
But he’s about to find himself schooled. Charlotte is going to teach Hank a
lesson once and for all about basic human decency, whether he likes it or not.
Spoiler alert. . . he likes it. ;-)
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My day hadn’t
been great even before she walked in.
I’d just
returned from the funeral of my longtime bookkeeper. He’d died from old age in
his sleep surrounded by his five kids, loving wife, and eighteen grandchildren
while leaving me with a reconciliation mess and this month’s payroll to finish.
My newly
trained bartender had sent a manifesto via text message, blaming his decision
to quit on my unwillingness to build a dedicated meditation room and give him
four paid half-hour breaks per shift to use it.
Three Diamond
Whiskey bottles out of the six that had shipped from the distributor were broken
in the crate. If you’re keeping score, that’s seven hundred dollars in
Tennessee Whiskey and a crime against humanity.
On the plus
side, the suit I’d worn to my parents’ funerals fit and I still looked damn
good in it.
Of course, I
didn’t know the newcomer was her at first. The door opened and closed,
same sound as normal no matter who was coming or going. It was a Sunday
mid-morning, still early yet for any of the dancers or bouncers and way too
early for any customers.
But the
moment she turned the corner and came into view, I gritted my teeth. Here we
go. What could she want? She better not be selling Bibles.
“Charlotte.”
Standing behind the bar, I crossed my arms and sounded unfriendly. She’d caught
me restocking paper products and the three surviving bottles of Diamond
Whiskey. I was only half finished with my current task, but nowhere near half
finished with my task list for the day. I did not have time for pious Charlotte
Mitchell.
As a rule, I
had time for two types of folks: people I paid, and people who paid me. A small
number of exceptions to this rule existed: a few friends from college and in
town, like Beau Winston or Patty Lee, and any woman I’d set my mind on
seducing, but even then, I made sure the scales remained balanced—give and
take, tit for tat, even-steven. Point is, Charlotte was obviously not the
former exception, and there was no way she’d ever be interested in becoming the
latter.
“Hank.” She
didn’t look at me, but she did paste on an obligatory-looking smile that pulled
her full lips tight and came nowhere close to her green eyes. Tracking
Charlotte Mitchell’s slow approach, I didn’t miss how she took her time and
peered around.
I wanted to
snark, “Lost? I believe the wallpaper and sanctimony store is closer to
downtown.”
Instead, I
ground out, “What do you want?”
Folk Around and Find Out, is the second title
in the Good Folk: Modern Folktales series and features Hank Weller and
Charlotte Mitchell, who have both appeared in previous works by Penny Reid.
Charlotte is a divorced single mother to four precocious,
unique, and amazing children. She’s a
tad naive, but has a big, kind, and compassionate heart, and willing to go out
of her way to help others. Charlotte is
also fierce, strong, and feisty and doesn’t care what others think of her. She has a tendency to put herself last, and is
loyal, hardworking and intelligent.
Hank is an enigmatic and complex hero, but also
gruff, surly, hardworking, and grumpy. Due
to choices and actions of his past, he’s judged to be lacking and considered to
be an undesirable outcast by the people of Green Valley.
I loved the relationship that Hank builds with
Charlotte’s children, and their banter and interactions are fun and full of humour. Hank and Charlotte’s story is a heartfelt,
realistic, and romantic second chance, small town, slow burn opposites attract
romance, with strong themes of family, friendship and love.
I look forward to future additions to this
series.
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