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    The Big One
    The Big One
    The Big One
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    The Big One

    By Louisa Bacio

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    The last thing marketing assistant Kayla Morgan expects to do on a Friday morning is give a tour of her emergency shelter to a flighty rock star. When her boss orders her to play nice, she acquiesces.

    Sebastian Cox, lead singer of The U.K. Underground, finds the American bird with the bunker in her backyard more than wacky, but the band’s looking for a location to shoot their latest video.

    When an earthquake strikes, the unlikely couple gets trapped and finds a few ways to keep themselves busy. Once reality sets in, will their differences leave them on shaky ground?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateJul 14, 2014
    ISBN9781613337141
    The Big One
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    Louisa Bacio

    A Southern California native, Louisa Bacio can’t imagine living far away from the ocean. The multi-published author of erotic romance enjoys writing within all realms – from short stories to full-length novels. Bacio shares her household with a supportive husband, two daughters growing “too fast,” and a multitude pet craziness: Two dogs, five fish tanks, an aviary, hamsters, rabbits and hermit crabs. In her other life, she teaches college classes in English, journalism and popular culture. Check out the latest happenings via her blog http://louisabacio.blogspot.com

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      The Big One - Louisa Bacio

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      The Big One

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Louisa Bacio

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-714-1

      Cover art by Tibbs Designs

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Author’s Note

      This story was started on December 12, 2012 (yes, 12/12/12), and the college where I teach under lockdown with armed suspects somewhere on campus. Nine hours of being held in the library—the same library where a campus custodian killed seven people and injured two in 1976. While trying not to think of those elements too much, the experience of being sheltered in place inspired this tale.

      The Big One

      A Prepper Romance

      By

      Louisa Bacio

      ~DEDICATION~

      Thank you to Heather Bennett, who first turned me onto the Prepper Romance line, and my editor Cassandra Dean for your extra special insights! Also, thanks to first readers Tiffany and Jenn for your advice.

      Remember, be prepared!

      Chapter One

      Can you do me a favor?

      Kayla pulled the phone from her ear to glance at the screen. While caller ID indicated it was her workmate calling her early on a Friday morning, the voice coming over the phone clearly belonged to her boss, Josh.

      Um, sure. What do you need? She hadn’t left for the office yet, and she winced at his potential request. His do me a favor often meant stopping at the dry cleaner or dropping his dog, Cujo the Pomeranian, at the groomers. On Fridays, she liked to get into work early and back home for the weekend.

      We’ve got this new client, the UK Underground, and they’re looking for a cool place to shoot their next video. Rumor has it you might have a bunker.

      She flushed. Few people at work knew about the hideaway, which narrowed down the field of who could have blabbed.

      It’s not much, she backtracked. Some supplies I’ve tucked away, just in case—r

      I don’t care why. Do you, or don’t you, have a basement hidey-hole?

      I do.

      Great. The lead singer, Sebastian, will be over at your place around noon, which gives you enough time to spruce it up a bit, you know, make it look saleable.

      When Josh got excited about a project, he rambled. The last thing she wanted to do was entertain a rock star. She’d heard the excited grumblings about the new band, but didn’t follow popular music too much. She saw celebrities in an other category, not really part of her social circles. Could she get out of it?

      Um, is it necessary?

      The line grew quiet, and then, finally, Josh cleared his throat. Is it necessary to keep one of our newest, biggest clients happy, especially in this down economy? Oh, yes it is. And if, for some reason, we lose this account, the company may just have to undergo layoffs. Do you understand me?

      Yes, sir. Kayla resigned herself to doing whatever was best for the company, no matter how much she’d rather not.

      So, yeah, go make yourself presentable. She heard rustling in the background and someone’s muted voice.

      Jacqueline? She knew the call had come from her co-worker and best friend’s cell phone. So they were sleeping together? A little TMI this early in the morning.

      And Jackie says to wear your yellow sundress. It looks good on you.

      With that parting comment, he hung up.

      Kayla stared at the now-silent phone. What would it feel like to toss it against the wall? Resisting, she sighed and placed it on the counter. As an assistant creative director for a marketing firm, she rarely interacted with clients. Usually the message was passed down from the higher-ups. First thing she was going to do was turn on her curling iron and, while it was heating up, she was going to check out who this Sebastian from the UK Underground was anyway.

      ***

      About two-thirty, she saw from her kitchen window her noon date coming up the walkway, looking like he’d rolled out of bed and slung on last night’s clothes. How could jeans get so wrinkled? Then again, her dad, who was a retired Marine, used to press his Levi’s, so she wasn’t used to such sloppiness. His

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