The Sexiest Man Alive (The Romanos Series Book 1) by Sandra Marton

Author:Sandra Marton [Marton, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual Story Theme, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Small Town & Rural Area, Action & Adventure, The Romanos Series, Reissued Edition, Valentine's Day Centerfold, Sexiest Man Alive Feature
Publisher: Harlequin Presents
Published: 2019-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

IT WAS late in the day, and the CHIC team was gathered in the boardroom for a brainstorming session.

They sat around a conference table heaped with photos, notepads and computer printouts. A coffee urn, packets of artificial sweetener and an open jar of powdered creamer stood on the sideboard, flanked by half-empty boxes of rapidly aging bagels and pastries from Doughnuts Deelishus.

People, deep in thought, sat tilted back in their chairs, slumped over the table or staring into space, waiting for that elusive killer of an idea to spring into their brains.

Susannah’s brain, unfortunately, seemed to have died. As far as she could tell, there wasn’t a clever idea in it.

She reached for her coffee, then hesitated. Maybe the problem was too much artificial sweetener. Or too much caffeine. Wasn’t it caffeine that was supposed to give cancer to laboratory rats? She couldn’t remember. She couldn’t remember much of anything, not after the last couple of weeks.

Everybody at CHIC was exhausted.

The world’s sexiest restaurant issue had just hit the stands, and it was a smash hit. The distributors said they couldn’t stock shelves fast enough to meet the demand, and advertising space was being sold at a premium for the next issue. But if they didn’t capitalize on their momentum by making that next issue bigger and better, CHIC would slide right back downhill.

The hot-button feature for the next issue—the world’s sexiest getaway—was ready to go. The editorial staff had chosen three incredible places. They’d photographed all of them, and now they were ready to declare one the winner, with an extra-special photo spread to be shot on its romantic premises.

And that would take them to the February issue. The sexiest man alive.

What had started almost as a gag had turned into the feature of the year. Distributors, readers, newspaper columns, even TV shows, were giving the sexiest man terrific publicity.

CHIC, of course, was doing more than its part.

“Just wait until you see us for Valentine’s Day,” the current magazine gushed, “when we’ll bring you The Sexiest Man Alive. Yummy! You’ll drown in his gorgeous eyes, meet him up close and personal, complete with a no-holds-barred, pull-out centerfold.”

The copy made Susannah groan, but she knew it would sell lots of magazines. Actually, it already had. Readers had sent in nominations by the carload, and Susannah’s staff had narrowed the list to four finalists.

Bart Fitt, whose bare buns of gold had given new meaning to the words camera close-ups on a highly rated, late-night TV soap.

Alejandro Rio, the handsome male model for Cotton Puffs underwear, whose glorious male assets bulged in the briefest pair of briefs on a billboard above Times Square.

Zeke McCool, the smoky-voiced lead singer for a hot new band, who pranced around onstage with his shirt off so that his impressive abs had millions of women begging to do his laundry.

And Stefan Zyblos, a writer with a whiskey voice and a steamy smile, whose highly anticipated first novel was said to be so erotic it was going to be sold with oven mitts.

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