Man Drought by Rachael Johns

Author:Rachael Johns [Johns, Rachael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460892978
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Pty Ltd, Australia
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Imogen spent much of the next week on the telephone, pulling together her first matchmaking weekend. She’d run the idea past Charlie, Karen, Pauli and Cal after her return from Perth, and they all agreed it was a fabulous one.

After much brainstorming, her team came up with a name for the weekend. Imogen worried it was a little corny, but Jenna assured her it had the catchy vibe they needed in order to attract women from the city. Thus, the first Man Drought weekend was scheduled for April.

A PR friend of Jenna’s had drafted up press releases and was eagerly helping spread the word. They’d even set up a Facebook page. Each day, more people phoned, faxed, emailed and even wrote letters requesting information about the event. Half the tickets were booked before they’d officially gone on sale. Imogen could barely believe it.

She didn’t know who was more excited by the idea: herself, the local boys, or the girls she’d spoken to from the city. The whole town got behind her and from every direction she had offers of help and suggestions. The few residual members of the CWA had offered to help with the catering and some locals had offered beds for accommodation once The Majestic’s rooms were filled. As word spread, offers had been coming from further afield, and as a result, she managed to book two bands (one for each night) at a fraction of the cost she budgeted. With tickets almost gone, Jenna already had ideas about a second event.

Happy for the diversion from thoughts of Gibson Black, Imogen embraced the busyness. Although she went out of her way not to talk to him, Gibson resumed his visits to Charlie, spending most nights perched on a stool at one end of the bar. She steered clear of that end – leaving the service up to Cal or Charlie – but she couldn’t help but overhear snippets of conversation. And Cal, who now thought Gibson’s grouchiness a hoot – much to Imogen’s irritation – insisted on passing on exactly what he thought of her Man Drought ideas.

He’d apparently christened the venture a joke, telling Cal, Charlie and anyone who’d listen that the lure of food, wine, partying and men would not attract the kind of women who’d ever want to make a life out here in the bush.

Imogen disagreed. Almost all of the women she’d spoken to so far seemed genuinely to be looking for a change of direction in their lives and were excited about the prospect of visiting the country. She desperately wanted to tell him so, but in the name of self-preservation, she refused to take his bait. She had the feeling his ribbing was solely for the purpose of getting her to break her silence. Yes, he may not have loved the idea as much as everyone, but he wasn’t usually this vocal about anything. He seemed to have loosened up since their lapse of judgement – that was how she tried to think of it – but it could just have been her imagination.

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