Tahoe forecast: Wild with a 100% chance of sizzle…

A Little Bit Naughty by Anne Rainey
Faced with the annual family reunion in Lake Tahoe, Amanda cringes, knowing she’ll be bombarded with questions about her dreadful single status. Luckily her good friend Leo offers to pose as her fiancé. Leo always kept his dirty mind in check for the sake of their friendship, but soon the teasing touches and sensual looks are all too real…and not nearly enough.

My Favorite Mistake by Karen Erickson
Julie arrives at the family Tahoe cabin ready to mix relaxation with work—until a blast from the past walks out of the bedroom. Tyler, who she remembers as nerdy, has morphed into drop-dead gorgeous. Tyler once had a crush on her, but now one look at her fuels visions of a weekend that’s about to get a lot hotter…

Need You Now by S.L. Carpenter
Freshly single, Janice is ready to cut loose. Soon she’s hit the jackpot in blackjack, and with a seductive man who shows her how a woman should be treated. Aaron has it all, but the fast-lane life leaves a lonely void. Until Janice fills this emptiness with something he never dared to even want…

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“Julie Lancaster? Is that you?”

She paused, the hairs on the back of her neck standing up on end. She did know that voice. A voice from her past. A voice she hadn’t really thought of in years. Punching the off button on the phone, she slowly turned around.

Yep, it was him. Tyler Nichols in the flesh—well, showing plenty of flesh that was for sure. He wore boxer briefs. And nothing else. Her gaze wandered over his form—slyly of course, she didn’t want him to know she was checking him out—and she had to admit he looked pretty damn good. He’d always been tall, but the last time she’d seen him he’d been skinny as a beanpole. And shy. A little on the nerdy side. He loved being outdoors. She remembered he’d always taken off on hikes in the mountains or around the lake.

“Uh, Tyler?” She gave him a little wave. “Hi. Um, what are you doing here?”

“I come here pretty much every other weekend during the summer. My parents moved across the country and told me I could go ahead and use the cabin as much as I want.” He squinted at her, as if he couldn’t quite make out her features, and she recalled he used to wear glasses. She wondered if he still did. “What are you doing here?”

“My mom suggested I come here and unwind for the weekend. She said the cabin would be empty.” Both of their parents owned the cabin, along with one other couple they were friends with. The three families had gone in on it together and purchased the cabin years ago, when Julie had been a freshman in high school. She’d spent many a weekend with Tyler Nichols growing up.

But she hadn’t seen him since before she graduated high school. And she certainly hadn’t expected him to grow up so well…

“Yeah, it was supposed to be.” He lifted an arm, biceps bulging she couldn’t help but notice, and ran a hand through his already tousled dark brown hair. “We all keep a schedule and email each other what’s going on through the summer with the cabin. At the last minute I had a change of plans and decided to head up here. I thought the cabin would be empty.”

“Oh.” She really didn’t know what to say. “Um, well this is kind of awkward.”

He chuckled, the warm sound sending a shiver of awareness down her spine. He’d become awfully hot these last few years. Well, more like ten-plus years. He’d been a year older than her so that would make him thirty. And single? Looking like that? If he were her boyfriend she certainly wouldn’t let him go to Tahoe all by his little lonesome.
Ha, if he were her boyfriend. What possessed her to even think such a thing?

“It’s too late for us to do anything about it tonight so we both might as well stay put. I can stay in the other bedroom, you can have the master,” he offered, squinting at her again. She must’ve looked at him oddly because his expression became contrite. “Sorry. I don’t have my glasses on, and you’re kind of fuzzy.”

“Well, how did you recognize me then?” She rested her hands on her hips, marveling at the absurdity of the entire situation. This was all just…strange.