In fact, she's so angry at them both that she lets Cal take her to dinner and decides to string him along until after her sisters' wedding. But she's downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now 'ex' boyfriend bet hunky Calvin Morrisey that he can't take her home and bed her. Glamour, a Book Sense mailing, advance reading excerpts distributed at regional trade shows and at RWA, plus a national author tour, Crusie's latest has a good shot at landing on bestseller lists.Thirty-three-year-old Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her current boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sisters' wedding. 10)įorecast: With ads running on television and in the With multiple references to Chicken Marsala, Krispy Kreme donuts and Midwestern brats (a fine contrast to Min's compulsively thin-thinking mother), Crusie's latest should delight romance readers with a penchant for sinful foods.

Although some readers will be sucked into Crusie's deliberate plot, others may cringe at its predictability. etc.) has created a loveable character in Min. It's all cutesy, corny, romantic fun, and Crusie ( Fast Women A bubbly cast of characters alternately helps and hinders romance, including Cal's ex-girlfriend, a psychologist who studies relationships for a living a matchmaking Italian chef and Min's friend Liza, who'll stop at nothing to make sure Min doesn't wind up with the conniving Cal. As Min and Cal fall for each other, Crusie pulls out the pranks, repeatedly pushing the two together and then tearing them apart. Statistics-loving Min knows about the bet and figures she can play Cal for a month, use him as a date for her sister's upcoming wedding and then dump him right before the month is up. As well she should be-it appears Cal has a $10,000 bet with some of his drinking buddies that he can get Min into bed within a month. So when the dashingly handsome (god-like, in fact) Calvin Morrissey enters Min's life and starts pouring on the charm, she's skeptical. Yet Min, who's grown up to be a curvy woman who adores carbs, isn't quite a knockout beauty and, at 33, she shows no signs of getting married anytime soon. Minerva Dobbs's mother named her daughter after the Greek goddess.

Bet me by jennifer crusie