Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    9½ Days
    Unavailable
    9½ Days
    Unavailable
    9½ Days
    Ebook225 pages2 hours

    9½ Days

    By Mia Zachary

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    High-priced attorney Jordan Gregory is no stranger to the fine art of negotiating, but even she is taken aback when Danny Navarro proposes sex any time, anywhere for temporarily posing as her fiancé. For the first time in her life, Jordan's running scared…and loving every minute of it.

    The last thing Danny is is scared. Being a firefighter has toughened him up to face every type of danger, even the sexual kind. For the first time in his life, Danny's surprised by who he wants, but he'll stop at nothing to catch the sexy, soul-searing Jordan.…

    But can they make the heat last another nine and a half days?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Blaze
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426866821
    Unavailable
    9½ Days
    Author

    Mia Zachary

    When Mia was about 10 years old, her mother let her read a "grown-up" book. It was a Harlequin Romance novel about a small-town veterinarian and the family practitioner he falls in love with. That story was pretty tame by today's standards - the hero and heroine didn't even kiss until the last page - but it opened up a whole new world to a romantic little girl who loved to write. Over the years, Mia penned really bad poetry, even worse song lyrics, adolescent short stories and overly descriptive class papers. Then one day a scene for a medieval romance emerged fully detailed in her head and she rushed to get it on paper. That scene eventually turned into eight chapters and a synopsis, but she kept getting bogged down in historical research and set the story aside. Deep in a sea of self-doubt, she set writing aside as well. Mia met her husband in Russian 101 at the beginning of the university semester. Their first date was November 17, 1989, and they eloped one year and 13 days later. She credits her husband with encouraging her to write again and for suggesting that a contemporary time frame might help her focus more on the story than the setting. One of her contemporary romance manuscripts won the Harlequin Books 2000 Summer Blaze Contest for bold, brash love scenes, placing second in the published category. On July 10, 2002, after four years and nine rewrites, Red Shoes & a Diary finally sold to the Harlequin Blaze line! Mia figures it was fate. Mia lives in Maryland with her wonderful husband and their beautiful little boy. In addition to being a fiction author, she's also a creativity coach and a paralegal hoping to quit the law firm to write full-time.

    Read more from Mia Zachary

    Related to 9½ Days

    Related ebooks

    Contemporary Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Child’s PLAY

      Jun 2, 2020

      Child’s PLAY
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Wrong Shampoo

      Apr 10, 2022

      Brandy scoured the rows of bubble gum bright shampoo bottles. How much time had passed already? She looked to the front of the store but couldn’t see the checkout lines. She had only been to Jeff’s apartment once so far and didn’t remember what brand

      16 min read

    • Article

      Dirty John: The Real Thing

      Oct 2, 2017

      LOS ANGELES - Their first date was at Houston's, a restaurant in Irvine where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell h

      10 min read

    • Article

      Australia Reads At Home

      May 18, 2020

      Australia Reads At Home
      7 min read

    • Article

      Daring to Show My Dark Side

      Feb 12, 2024

      Daring to Show My Dark Side
      4 min read

    • Article

      La Bohème

      Mar 1, 2022

      ON A SATURDAY or Sunday afternoon in the cold early months of 1988, I sat alone at a table for two in a Greenwich Village diner, twenty-four years old, hopelessly young, my notebook open in front of me. At the table next to mine were three people, al

      13 min read

    • Article

      TUNNEL Vision

      Mar 29, 2020

      It’s unexpected to find a love story filled with dramatic twists worthy of any thriller, but then, In Five Years is an unexpected sort of novel. As much about the power of friendship as it is romance, it’s poignant, clever and a little spooky. New Yo

      2 min read

    • Article

      Redeployed

      Jan 24, 2020

      Redeployed
      5 min read

    • Article

      All The Feels

      Oct 22, 2021

      All The Feels
      3 min read

    • Article

      It’s Kind of a Funny Story: A Conversation With Susan Jane Gilman

      Feb 3, 2020

      This past fall I was once again in Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library to hear an author speak about her new book. I went in with no real expectations—I hadn’t read any of Susan Jane Gilman’s books yet; I just take any opportunity to hear writers talk ab

      5 min read

    • Article

      All Our Hidden Gifts

      May 28, 2021

      All Our Hidden Gifts
      4 min read

    • Article

      Distancing: On the Writers Who Saved My Marriage

      Apr 21, 2022

      No couple ever recovered from infidelity by only reading books, even the books written for that purpose. But books are what kept me from falling apart. The post Distancing: On the Writers Who Saved My Marriage appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Amazing Grace: Reading Kelly J. Beard’s ‘An Imperfect Rapture’

      Sep 30, 2019

      For another memoirist, it would be easy to resort to a rhetoric of absolutes, but Beard’s elegant and direct prose teems with complexity and nuance. The post Amazing Grace: Reading Kelly J. Beard’s ‘An Imperfect Rapture’ appeared first on The Million

      5 min read

    • Article

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

      Jun 10, 2020

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
      6 min read

    • Article

      Cromer

      Mar 11, 2022

      Cromer
      21 min read

    • Article

      A Vibrant Sense of Hope: The Millions Interviews J. Ryan Stradal

      Jul 24, 2019

      Stradal's sophomore novel is the kind of book you read and immediately want to share. It’s a story about family, hard work, and goodness. The post A Vibrant Sense of Hope: The Millions Interviews J. Ryan Stradal appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Diane Cook

      Dec 7, 2020

      I had a two-year-old to entertain in lockdown, a book to launch and promote, a baby to grow and give birth to during the pandemic, and then a dark quarry lake of post-partum depression to drown in The post A Year in Reading: Diane Cook appeared first

      3 min read

    • Article

      Discarded Wraith Of Apartheid

      Apr 13, 2024

      It’s been years since I read a book that strained the Likability Principle as viscerally as Karen Jennings’ new book, Crooked Seeds. Her previous novel, An Island, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, but I fear the more I tell you about Crooked Seed

      2 min read

    • Article

      On Trans Joy

      May 1, 2023

      On Trans Joy
      15 min read

    • Article

      Not That Story

      Oct 28, 2017

      Not That Story
      7 min read

    Reviews for 9½ Days

    4/5

    4 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words