Jason Barry’s no hero, although he does hope to change the world one day by helping people once he finally earns his master’s degree in psychology. When his scholarship is unexpectedly revoked, however, Jason takes on a temporary modeling gig for money to help pay the bills, never dreaming it’ll land him on the cover of a best-selling romance novel – and transform him from the boy-next-door to a hot literary hunk almost overnight.
Suddenly, women recognize Jason as the face of sexy ‘Lord Damon’ everywhere he goes, making him the envy and admiration of his male friends. But as covers featuring him as everything from a swashbuckling hero to Mr. Darcy himself causes his celebrity status to explode, Jason struggles to balance his academic pursuits, as well as his deepening attraction for Emily, a waitress and part-time student at his university.
Emily is definitely unimpressed by Jason’s literary alter-ego. But can the real Jason convince her there’s more to him than meets the eye? Or will bigger issues prevent their happy-ever-after, when certain truths between them challenge the definition of a real hero?
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"Lord who?" Greg repeated.
"Lord
Damon," said Jason. "That's what she said to me. I swear. And then I
saw it in the window. Me, all over these book covers, as some sort of
swashbuckler or gentleman hero or something."
"Get
out of here."
"I'm
serious! I'm not lying to you — why would I lie about this?"
"This
is a joke, right? Stop it already," Greg answered. "I'm not buying
it."
"You
want me to prove it? Fine." He grabbed his roommate's car keys off his
desk. "I'll prove it. Come on."
Greg
didn't believe him until they were standing outside the book store's window. He
watched his roommate's jaw drop slightly.
"What
the ..." he trailed off. "Holy ice cubes, Jason. How did you do
this?"
"Come
on. Let's get away from here." Jason tugged him in the opposite direction.
Greg followed, but slowly, his glance still drifting towards the hero version
of his roommate plastered all over the book covers.
"So
what happened?" Greg asked. "How the heck did someone think of you
for that book?" His tone was somewhere between total skepticism and
disgust, not that Jason blamed him. Something about the cover seemed too
cheesy, as if he was being hit in the face with a cream pie every time he saw
this alternate version of himself. It was too much to handle.
"All
right. I went to this agency who put an ad in the paper" said Jason.
"They take photos of you —"
"Whoa.
Stop right there."
"Not
nude ones," Jason answered. "Just ordinary photos. They pay you — you
sign a release, and they can sell the picture to someone else, who can use it
for anything they want. I did it for forty bucks. I didn't think they'd
actually use it for anything, I thought they'd probably toss it in the
trash."
"You're
dressed like a pirate captain, bro."
"It's
not a pirate costume," Jason retorted. "Trust me. They were very
specific about that."
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About Laura Briggs: (taken from Goodreads) Laura Briggs is a professional writer whose debut short work from Pelican Book Group "Only in Novels" garnered attention in the book review world and with fans of both Christian and contemporary romance. Since then, she has continued publishing novels both traditionally and independently and both Christian and mainstream Sweet Romance, as well as co-authoring a series of Grimm-esque fantasy-themed fairytale retellings known as The Dark Woods Trilogy.
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