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A Kiss for Luck
    Kele Moon

    Dr. Clara Evans’ life has taken a turn for the worse. With a failed marriage behind her, Clara has only a bottle of wine and a romance novel for company on New Year’s Eve while waiting for the dreadful year to end.
    Her lonely celebration is disrupted when her best friend Jackson Philips shows up and she couldn’t be more delighted. Tall, muscular and handsome, what’s not to love about the bighearted firefighter?
    It’s not until she steals a desperately needed kiss for luck at midnight that secret desires and hidden heartaches rise to the surface, igniting an inferno of passion that burns hot enough to overwhelm even the most seasoned firefighter.

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    A Kiss for Luck
    ISBN 9781419932540
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    A Kiss for Luck Copyright © 2011 Kele Moon
    Edited by Grace Bradley
    Cover art by Syneca
    Electronic book publication January 2011
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    A KISS FOR LUCK
    Kele Moon

Dedication
    To my mom… For always being wonderful and supportive and putting up with all the daydreaming and books eating my bedroom for most of my childhood. I love you!

    Kele Moon

Chapter One
    “Firefighters are the hottest.”
    “I know, right? But that one is smokin’, even for a firefighter. He’s the sexiest I’ve seen walk through here in a while.”
    “You’re supposed to be working, not ogling the paramedics,” Clara said in an annoyed voice, looking at the chart in front of her as she reminded herself it was probably the extended shift and not the nurses causing her bad mood. “You do your job, let them do theirs.”
    “Have you looked at him?” a young nurse named Faith asked, giving Clara a look of disbelief. “He’s hot, Dr. Evans. Even you would think so.”
    “I’m so not impressed with your attitude,” Clara said bitterly and then looked against her will at the tall, muscular man leaning against the wall in the corner, quietly filling out paperwork on his clipboard. He was gorgeous by anyone’s standards and she knew now why the nurses were ogling him and gasped in surprise. “Jackson!”
    He looked up, grinning at her, showing off a charming smile that made his entire face light up in a way that nearly knocked the air out of Clara. He had been her best friend since high school, so she should be used to that smile and the way it made him almost too beautiful to look at it, but some days it caught her off guard.
    “What’re you doing here?” she asked, still shocked to see him in her emergency room.
    He shrugged. “Six-car pileup. The critical went to Liberty. They routed us here,” he said as he tucked his clipboard under his arm and walked over to her. His blue eyes glowed brighter than usual under the harsh florescent