Kate looked at the signature in the last frame. David Dodd. “You really draw this? You mean you thought of it, and you get paid for it?”

“Yup.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I did tell you. You weren’t listening. Every time I said I drew cartoons you’d roll your eyes and say ‘Yes, but what do you really do?’ ”

Kate felt her stomach lurch. He was right. “I feel like a complete jerk,” she said.

Dave hugged her to him. “It wasn’t all your fault. To tell the truth, I was a little insecure and was just as happy to keep it a secret for a while. It’s been syndicated for only three weeks. Initially it was for a one-month trial, but it’s become so popular they’ve offered me a long-term contract. And I’m negotiating a comic book contract for it, too.”

He held her at arm’s length, and then concern showed in his eyes. “Do you really like it?”

“I love it! And I love your room. I can see where it would inspire you to write comic books.”

“You think you could practice your cello here?”

Kate laughed. “No. I need someplace that doesn’t hold so many distractions.”

“We have a problem, Katie. We need a bigger house.”

Kate agreed. “We need a house in a family neighborhood,” she said. “Someplace where there are children skipping rope in driveways. Someplace with lots of bedrooms.”

About the Author

Bestselling author JANET EVANOVICH is the winner of the New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award and multiple Romantic Times awards, including Lifetime Achievement. She is also a long-standing member of RWA. “Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.” Janet Evanovich, 1988

Books by Janet Evanovich

Back to the Bedroom

Love Overboard

The Rocky Road to Romance

One for the Money

Two for the Dough

Three to Get Deadly

Four to Score

High Five

Hot Six

Seven Up

Hard Eight

Visions of Sugar Plums

To the Nines

Ten Big Ones

Coming Soon in Hardcover

Motor Mouth

Coming Soon in Paperback

Metro Girl Manhunt

About the Publisher

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