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    One Night in the Spa
    One Night in the Spa
    One Night in the Spa
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    One Night in the Spa

    By Kathy Lyons

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    A sexy category romance novella from Entangled's Brazen imprint...

    His touch will undo her completely...

    Fitness gym manager Kim Castillo is in trouble. During her years of rigorous training as a pro racquetballer, her libido was all but shut down. Now that she's "retired" and surrounded day after day by hard male bodies, she's drooling over every guy she sees. Including the spa manager next door-her best friend, David Pepke.

    David is determined to show Kim everything she's been missing, one sensuous treatment at a time. Their chemistry is explosive, and every line of friendship (not to mention professionalism) is crossed in a storm of heat and longing. Now he just has to find the right time to confess that he's actually a corporate spy...and convince Kim that their happy ending might actually be the real thing.

    Previously released on Entangled's Ever After imprint - August 2013.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 26, 2013
    ISBN9781622662449
    One Night in the Spa
    Author

    Kathy Lyons

    A USA TODAY bestselling author, Kathy Lyons has made her mark with sizzling romances. She adores unique settings, wild characters and erotic, exotic love. And if she throws in a dragon or a tigress here and there, it’s only in the name of fun! An author of more than 30 novels, she adores the fabulousness that is Blaze. Kathy loves hearing from readers. Visit her at www.kathylyons.com or find her on Facebook and Twitter under her other penname, Jade Lee.

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    • 4/5
      Reviewed by Kimfor Read Your Writes Book ReviewsOne Night in the Spa is full of surprises. Kim Castillo is the manager of John's Fitness. David Pepke is the spa manager of Pamper Me Spa. The two have known each other for three years, every since Kim started working at John's Fitness, and are now best friends.For a twenty-four-year-old, Kim has overcome a tragedy that has shaped her life. With the loss of her professional racketball career, Kim's life is spinning out of control. Things are happening to her and she isn't sure how to deal with them.David comes across her journal and figures out what's happening with Kim. He thinks that this is his chance to let her know how he feels about her and move out of the "friend" zone to something more. When David offers Kim a facial and massage at Pamper Me Spa, both will get more than they bargained for.This is the story of what happens when you go for what you want and throw caution to the wind. But sometimes, things are not always as they seem. It's going to take a strong friendship and an undeniable love to get these two through a betrayal and a secret.Source: NetGalley
    • 3/5
      One Night at the Spa by Kathy Lyons was an amusing and sweet short read. What it lacked was heat between the characters. While David (who is a beta hero) insists he has been in love with Kim for some time, there was little sizzle between them. The relationship as friends, and later as lovers, was too comfortable. Kim’s issues with her own sexuality might be technically correct, but it was too easy an excuse and the reason given made her seem too conveniently ignorant of sexuality in general. The tension and drama are more from external forces, not the inherent issues with moving a good friendship into a different sphere. This is a shorter read and it seems to have caused a lack of depth in both the characters and the plot. Where there is backstory, it seems to be built in for the express purpose of explanation rather than organically part of the whole. Actions and motives seem to be more designed to move the story to an inevitable conclusion than what feels right for the characters. Had this been a longer story, it might have had the space to expand into better characterization with fewer convenient excuses.RATING: 3Heat Rating: MildREVIEWED BY: Monique Neaves
    • 5/5
      "A NIGHT AT THE SPA", by Kathy Lyons, is a short story of 77 pages published by Entangled Publishing. I'm not sure how long Entangled Publishing has been around (yes, I looked, but couldn't easily find an answer) but I've read more & more of their books in the past year and I've been incredibly impressed by their authors / book selections.Kim & David work at connecting health businesses - she's the manager of a gym and he's a masseuse at a spa. One night he offers to give her a massage and all their normal walls come tumbling down... resulting in a tumble on the table! While David is ecstatic it's finally happened, Kim is nervous. But David is nervous, too - because he's hiding a really big secret that could turn Kim away forever...!Okay, girls, this was just such a fun, hip little HEA romance with a tiny bit of intrigue thrown in for good measure. Featuring an alpha-y masculine man as a spa masseuse was almost funny. The sex is hot, the romance is fun and you could really believe in these two characters. Check it out - it's a great way to spend that time while you're sitting waiting for soccer practice to be over! But don't take MY word for it - here's some feedback I got from the author, Kathy Lyons, about "One Night At The Spa"!Kathy, thanks for joining Snarky Mom today to talk about "One Night At The Spa". Since it's just us girls - did you have fun researching for this book? (I tried to convince The Man that *I* needed a day at the spa in order to give this review & interview the due it deserved - unfortunately, he didn't go for it.)Okay, so yes, I confess--I really did get the idea of this novella while getting a facial. Let me say that there was NOTHING sexual or unprofessional about my spa appointment. Just that my mind went there, and once there...I had to write it. So tell your husband that you do indeed need a facial to fully experience the joys of this novella.Without giving TOO much away - where do you think David's heart really was in his work - at the spa or at the office?His heart was with the heroine, of course! And giving her the absolute must perfect physical experience for one glorious night.Okay, Kim going through puberty in her twenties was an interesting twist. How did THAT ever come to mind?Um...well, personal experience. First off, I was a racquetball pro for 2 weeks until I blew my knees. So climbing the ranks of athletics from amateur to pro is a world I know. I know how much an athlete sacrifices to make that climb. Not just physically, but emotionally too. Everything is set aside in pursuit of that dream. Kim's experience is extreme, but after I blew my knees, I had 2 years of rehab and slow recovery. Suddenly I had 4-5 more hours in the day that were NOT devoted to athletics and could not use my knees. At all. Years of constant physical activity suddenly STOPPED. All that energy had to go SOMEWHERE. And yes, I had a sexual renaissance. Frankly, I'd NEVER looked at a man sexually before that moment. Sure, I'd evaluate his physical body in terms of performance, but that whole idea of sexual attraction--that didn't happen until I stopped everything and started realizing what those emotions and feelings were.Your dedication in this book mentions "To the real David & Kim" - how close was this book to the truth?As much as I'd like to say the pages are right out of reality, the truth is they're not. Kim and David are my friends and they both asked to be named in one of my books, though there are elements of their personalities that carry over. And beyond that--I'm not going to say!

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    One Night in the Spa - Kathy Lyons

    His touch will undo her completely...

    Fitness gym manager Kim Castillo is in trouble. During her years of rigorous training as a pro racquetballer, her libido was all but shut down. Now that she’s retired and surrounded day after day by hard male bodies, she’s drooling over every guy she sees. Including the spa manager next door—her best friend, David Pepke.

    David is determined to show Kim everything she’s been missing, one sensuous treatment at a time. Their chemistry is explosive, and every line of friendship (not to mention professionalism) is crossed in a storm of heat and longing. Now he just has to find the right time to confess that he’s actually a corporate spy...and convince Kim that their happy ending might actually be the real thing.

    Previously released on Entangled’s Ever After imprint — August 2013.

    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Epilogue

    About the Author

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

    Copyright © 2013 by Kathy Lyons. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher.

    Previously released on Entangled’s Ever After imprint copyright August 2013.

    Entangled Publishing, LLC

    2614 South Timberline Road

    Suite 109

    Fort Collins, CO 80525

    Visit our website at www.entangledpublishing.com.

    Brazen is an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC. For more information on our titles, visit www.brazenbooks.com.

    Edited by Stacy Abrams

    Cover design by Heather Howland

    Photography by Shutterstock

    ISBN 978-1-62266-244-9

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition August 2013

    To Stacy and Liz

    You make this fun!

    THANK YOU!

    And to the real David and Kim,

    May your lives be filled with more love

    Than can be put on a printed page.

    Chapter One

    So I’m trying to bulk up, but without…

    Kim Castillo tried not to strangle her client. He was a middle-aged bodybuilder, a man who’d spent thousands on personal training, and who was currently doing nothing more than asking her advice. It wasn’t his fault that she felt as though she was about to crawl out of her own skin. He was droning on about different supplements, shifting into poses to show off his progress.

    Can you say midlife crisis? He was a jerk, but he paid well, and damn it, she couldn’t stop looking. Not just at his impressive pectorals, but at the guy doing squats a few feet away. There was an adolescent in the corner who had really nice calf muscles, and even the old guy near the cardio machines had broad shoulders. Old, young, athlete, or not—if the body was male, she was looking. And that made her absolutely insane.

    That was her. Miss Ogle-the-Weight-Lifters.

    It’s a medical condition, she reminded herself. There were fancy words for it, even a chart with hormone levels and the like, but it all boiled down to two words: super horny. Yup. That was her: twenty-four years old and suddenly a female horndog.

    She ground her back teeth, trying to force herself to focus on her client. Besides, there was nothing new out there for her to see. She was no stranger to the male form. She’d practically grown up in various gyms around Chicagoland, she’d aced all her anatomy classes, and then she’d become a personal trainer while building a pro racquetball career. She knew bodies—male and female. And yet for some reason, completely out of the blue, she abruptly couldn’t stop staring at them.

    Kim? Kim, what do you think? Can you see a difference? Frank Johnson struck another bodybuilder pose, flexing his pecs and bunching his abs. At some point, he’d pulled off his shirt just so he could show off for her. And damn it, he was impressive for a middle-aged guy with a wife, a mortgage, and three kids.

    Very nice, she said, unable to keep the throaty purr from her voice. Where the hell had that come from? "But you need to put on your shirt. We’ve got a policy on that, and I am the manager here."

    Oh. Right, he said as he took his time getting dressed again. Um, hey, I know you have brochures and stuff on the supplements the club recommends. Do you mind if we go grab a few?

    She blinked. No problem. I’m sure Danni can—

    But I want to go over them with you. He flashed her a charming smile. Do you mind? I’d really appreciate it.

    She blinked. It was against the rules to take a member upstairs to the office suite. The club was open until eleven, but the office suite closed at seven and it was now after nine. As manager here, she had to stick to the rules. Tell you what, I’ll grab what we have and bring them down while you shower.

    He rubbed a hand over his head and looked rather charming, with the way his pecs bunched as he did it. Come on, Kim. You’ve known me for years. I just want to talk to you about them.

    She looked at Frank, feeling jittery and lustful all at once. God, she was sick. She just wanted to get home so she could climb the walls there. But then her business mind kicked in. Yes, Frank was a jerk, but one who paid very well. And—bonus—if she made nice with him now, she could probably get him to sign up for the elite training and sports massage package. Sales were sluggish; her job here at John’s Fitness depended on that promotion going well. And all of that—the forms and the brochures—were upstairs.

    We just have to make it quick, she said with a smile. Follow me. She breathed a sigh of relief as they left the main weight room. Her eyes had been roving so much, she’d given herself a headache.

    Frank kept talking as she led him up the stairs. Kim tuned him out, her mind already churning over ways to blow off steam. Maybe a sauna. Her knee injury meant she couldn’t exercise except for yoga, and frankly, turning herself into a pretzel hadn’t worked for her.

    She unlocked the door to the office suite, flipping on the light as she went to the bank of filing cabinets. Beyond her were the offices—hers included—completely dark at this late hour. Frank was following a step behind her, gabbing all the way. But at his first pause for breath, she went into her sales pitch.

    "You know about the spa attached to the club, right? Pamper Me Spa. Have you thought about our new fitness massage package? It’s perfect for elite athletes like— Ump!"

    Suddenly, Frank had shoved her up against the filing cabinet so hard the breath was knocked from her lungs. Then before she could do more than gasp, he had flattened himself along her back. His hands turned into tentacles, groping her everywhere while his erection started shoving rhythmically against her butt.

    She couldn’t believe how fast it happened. One second, elite athletics, the next—pinned.

    Frank! Stop!

    Yeah, baby, show me how you like it, he groaned in her ear.

    WTF? Fury pounded in her ears, and she started to move on reflex. She slammed backward with her elbow and stomped hard with one foot. But she was flattened, and worse, he had about a hundred pounds on her. She had little leverage and he was just too damned big.

    She was just gathering breath for a really good scream when suddenly, the

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