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    Diving In
    Diving In
    Diving In
    Ebook55 pages37 minutes

    Diving In

    By Bru Baker

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    Being the pool boy makes it easy for Max Jansen to ogle his long-time crush, water polo player Everett Caldwell. Never mind the fact that Max owns the company and is overqualified for the task of monitoring chlorine and cleaning skimmers. He’s just happy to watch his unattainable dream play—until one day Everett invites him over and suddenly Max is his platonic plus-one for everything from movie nights to racy industry parties. Then Max learns the one-time Olympian isn’t as straight as everyone assumes, and he isn’t sure how long he can hold out before his crush grows much deeper.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamspinner Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781623808259
    Diving In
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    Bru Baker

    Bru Baker a eu un avant-goût de la vie comme écrivain à l’âge de quatre ans, quand elle a commencé à publier un journal hebdomadaire pour sa famille. Ce qu’ils appelaient de la curiosité, elle l’appelait avoir du nez pour les informations, et personne n’a été surpris quand elle s’est retrouvée avec des diplômes en journalisme et en science politique, et a commencé une carrière dans le journalisme. Bru a passé plus d’une décennie à écrire pour les journaux avant de sauter le pas vers la fiction. Elle travaille désormais comme référence et conseillère des lecteurs dans une bibliothèque du Midwest, bien qu’elle trouve toujours ça difficile de croire que quelqu’un soit prêt à la payer pour parler de livres toute la journée. Souvent, le soir, on peut la trouver pelotonnée avec un livre ou son ordinateur portable. Que ce soit pour créer ses propres personnages ou immergée avec ceux de quelqu’un d’autre, on ne peut nier que Bru est plus heureuse quand elle est captivée par une histoire. Son mari et elle ont deux enfants, ce qui signifie que nombre de ses livres sont écrits sur la touche de différents entraînements sportifs.

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    • 3/5
      Sometimes appearances can be deceiving, and this story shows the best way forward, to avoid the misunderstanding lingering. The tone is light, the details amusing, and the small amount of angst on Max's side is certainly understandable. After all, it's not every day that a hunky water polo player takes an interest in a geeky pool boy, even if that pool boy actually owns the company.

      Max is a great guy. He is also extremely shy, and almost professional-level stalker. He has an enormous crush on Everett, but thinks the man is straight, and would never be interested in him anyway. I loved that he actually owns and runs the company and only pretends to be a pool boy during summer, and only at Everett's house. It's all an elaborate ruse to be able to ogle Everett practice with his team.

      Everett, even though he is clearly a rich boy, never sounded conceited to me. He's pretty down to earth, and I loved that he tried to woo Max with a home cooked meal. He is really sweet, and very determined to get Max to become his boyfriend, but he is clearly also shy, since he doesn't ask outright until they are well into their time of secret and less secret dates.

      If you like stories with a summery feel, if you enjoy reading about eye candy at pool parties, and if you're looking for a read that is as sweet as it is hot, then you will probably like this short story.



      NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review.

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    Diving In - Bru Baker

    Diving In

    MAX had never felt more invisible in his life, which was a nice change of pace, actually. He’d built up a thick skin growing up as the gawky teenage boy who tagged along with his father cleaning pools and then graduating to be the (still gawky) pool boy himself, but that didn’t mean he enjoyed being leered at and teased.

    Over the years he’d had to deal with overly amorous housewives (he blamed Hollywood’s clichéd portrayal of pool boys as sexy for that) and bullying, macho-type men who liked to belittle his job, his character, and his overall hygiene while he went about his business cleaning things like broken beer bottles and, in one very memorable instance, used condoms out of their pool filters.

    He was much more than a pool boy now, of course. Since he’d taken the helm of Jansen & Sons after his father’s sudden death three years earlier, he’d expanded the company’s scope. Now he oversaw a growing business that specialized in all sorts of water treatment and cleaning, putting his chemistry degree to good use by consulting with contractors and builders about water management and drainage. When his brother, Ryan, had graduated with a degree in civil engineering and architecture, Max had expanded the business again, adding design and construction to Jansen & Sons’ scope. He would never abandon the company’s original mission, though pool maintenance was admittedly just a small portion of the services the company offered. Most of his best childhood memories involved working with his father after school and over the summers, and Max felt he was honoring his father’s memory by continuing that branch of the business, even if it was no longer the company’s main focus.

    But this assignment had been too cherry to give to his summer pool maintenance staff, which was made up primarily of college students on their summer vacations. He’d taken quite a bit of teasing for scooping it up, especially from his sister-in-law, Brenna, who handled the company’s scheduling and bookkeeping. She and Ryan never seemed to tire of the jokes and innuendo, which Max grudgingly endured because he deserved it. All of the company’s pool maintenance techs had a good knowledge base in water care, but Max had to admit that with his master’s degrees in chemistry and geology, he was just a tad overqualified to be chlorinating water and checking filters.

    Max crouched low, dipping a clear vial into the sparkling water and filling it halfway, leaving room for the chemicals he’d add later to test its pH. He’d just capped it and tucked it into the pack he wore on his belt when a low wolf whistle caught his attention. He looked up, lips set in the customary rigid pucker that served to discourage both come-ons and put-downs, but a quick assessment of the scene before him had Max rolling his eyes and concentrating his focus on his chemicals again.

    The whistle hadn’t been meant for him. True to form, the pool deck full of gorgeous women in barely there bikinis hadn’t given him a second look. They were sunning themselves on a staggering array of luxurious chaise lounges that were spread around the concrete deck, studiously ignoring him in favor of their gossip magazines and dance music that pumped continuously from speakers disguised as coconuts on the palm trees that towered above the glittering, enormous pool.

    The pool itself was a gem. Olympic-sized and pristine, kept at the perfect temperature and condition at all times. It was empty at the moment, but the array of women crowding around it made it obvious that it wouldn’t remain so for long. Max timed his visits carefully, making sure that he avoided the times that the women had the run of the pool. He glanced at his watch, his lips quirking in a ghost of a

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