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Sex? Absolutely.
Love? Not my thing.
I didn’t do love or butterflies, but I loved him.
I was screwed, and not in a good way.
Selah Elmore is a smart, independent woman who knows exactly who she is and what she wants. She loves her life being a professor and popular pirate erotica author. However, when she leaves the Pacific Northwest to spend six months studying sculpture in West Africa, she learns she doesn’t know a thing about love.
Cocky, suit-wearing Gerhard charms her during a stopover in Amsterdam, but dashing, adventurous Kai sweeps her off her feet in Ghana.
Sparks fly on three continents when perpetually single Selah discovers there’s more to love and life than she ever imagined.
MICHELLE’S REVIEW
OMG Daisy Prescott!! Each book that you write is better than the last!! How do you keep making each book better and better?
And let me just say- Daisy’s first book- Geoducks are for Lovers was awesome. And then Ready to Fall came and I thought there was no way I would love anyone the way I loved John Day!!
But now, Daisy has given us Kai. Oh dear God. There aren’t words to describe Kai but I’ll start with sexy, adventurous, sexy and amazing!
The story starts off with our heroine, Selah, spending some time in Amsterdam before spending six months in Ghana for work (and some play) and while there she meets up with Gerhard. Based on his description, I’m just going to imagine that he looks like this:
Anyways as much as I love Gerhard and Kai- I really also love Selah. She does do somethings towards the end that make me want to throttle her. But overall- she’s strong and amazing and I want to live her life!!
This book is so good and so much happens, but I can’t really say much more because there are twists and turns that happen that are total spoilers.
What I can tell you is that this book is amazing. It’s full of life and love. And it’s so real. The time that Selah spends in Ghana makes me want to get on a plane and travel the world. The relationships she has with friends and lovers alike are the best kinds of relationships. It just makes me want to do this:
I think what I love the most about Daisy’s writing is that she has characters that are older. Most of her characters are in their 30′s and often their 40′s. Now- don’t get me wrong. I love stories about younger characters. But there is something really nice about reading about older characters. These are people who have lived and loved. They know what they want and that’s what makes their stories so interesting. As adults- we so often think we know what we need and want and then life just takes us by the balls and shows us what we’re missing.
That’s exactly what happens to Selah. Selah loves men but she feels no reason to be tied doyn to anything or anyone overly serious. She enjoys her relaxed affairs and her sexy pirate novels! But as always life throws her a curveball and it’s up to her to decide what to do with it. The journey is a perfect blend of sweet, sexy, funny, heart wrenching and maddening. Basically:
I highly suggest you pick this book up. You don’t need to read the others as they are all standalone novels, but you’d be missing out if you don’t pick those up too!
Job well done Daisy. Another excellent book!!
EXCERPT
Gerhard paused with his glass near his mouth. “You’re an expert in naked women?”
I nodded, watching his reaction.
“Huh.” He swallowed. “Who knew such a job existed.”
His response was typical, making me laugh. “Jealous?”
“A little. My work involves no naked women. Although, sometimes there are naked breasts.” His eyes met mine.
“In banking? You mean when you take clients to strip clubs?”
“Now, now. Don’t start with your stereotypes again. Who said I was a banker?”
“I assumed.”
He smirked.
“Yes, I know. Ass-u-me. You were at the reception tonight and someone pointed you out as part of the TNG group.”
“Because I was standing with a group of bankers doesn’t mean I’m a dull number cruncher.”
I couldn’t tell if he was teasing, but I felt like an ass for putting him in a box. “So what do you do?”
“I crunch numbers.” His face remained blank for a moment, then his eyes crinkled and his lips twitched.
I smacked his arm where it lay on the bar. “You do not!”
“I do in a way, but no, not really. I work for another area at TNG.”
“One that requires you to travel.”
“Yes, in fact I leave for a conference in a few weeks. Enough blabbering about me, what are you doing in Amsterdam?”
I told him about my week here, and plans in Accra for the next six months.
His smile returned. “You’ll love Ghana. It’s Africa for beginners. Stable, peaceful, and almost everyone speaks a little English.”
“You’ve been?”
“I had an assignment there three years ago. In Accra.”
“I’ll be staying in Accra! Mostly. I want to visit the North and see some elephants.”
“You have to see the elephants. Also, eat joloff and kelewele. Watch out for the palm wine, though; it sneaks up on you.”
Tall, gorgeous, charming, worldly? Bless you, Anita, patron saint of blind dates.
“I can’t wait. I have oodles of Out of Africa fantasies running through my mind.”
“Lion hunting?” he joked.
“No, a hot alpha man washing my hair. Duh.” I rolled my eyes.
“The naked women expert dreams of being seduced in Africa? I’m sure that can be arranged.” His eyes met mine, and we locked stares for a moment. I couldn’t read him. Maybe it was a Dutch thing.
“Africa, Amsterdam. I’m easy that way.” I smirked at my own word play.
His eyes searched my face for a hint of joking. There wasn’t one.
He straightened his shirt cuffs. “You’re a funny bird.”
“I’d say so. Given I’m not a bird at all.” I smiled at him.
AUTHOR INFO
Before writing full time as a freelance content creator, Daisy worked in the world of art, auctions, antiques, and home decor. She earned her degree in Art History and endured a brief stint as a film theory graduate student. Baker, art educator, antiques dealer, blue ribbon pie baker, fangirl, content wrangler, gardener, wife, and pet mom are a few of the titles she’s acquired over the years.
Daisy and her husband (aka SO) currently live in a real life Stars Hollow in the Boston suburbs with their rescue dog, Hubbell, and an imaginary house goat. Geoducks are for Lovers is her first novel. She is currently at work on her second novel set in Ghana.
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