{"product_id":"2940158439360","title":"You Give Love a Bad Name (Mirabelle Harbor, Book 3)","description":"YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME is Book 3 in Marilyn Brant's Mirabelle Harbor series, but this story and all of the contemporary romances in this series can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing but love, 24\/7\" is the slogan of Mirabelle Harbor's only radio station, 102.5 \"LOVE\" FM. On the verge of turning thirty-five, local DJ Blake Michaelsen is well-known for several reasons: his very sexy on-air voice, his omnipresent family, his eligible bachelor status, and his reputation as one of the most impulsive men in Chicago's northern suburbs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHigh-school French teacher and lifelong romantic Vicky Bernier is not at all wild about people who exhibit reckless conduct. (Blake.) Or men who have gigantic egos. (Blake.) Or grownups who still act like teenagers. (Blake, again.) She deals with enough adolescent behavior during the school day. Unfortunately, she's the staff advisor to the Homecoming Committee, and they've chosen him as their DJ for the big fall dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when a man whose job it is to play love songs for a living is forced to admit his deepest secret--that he doesn't believe in true love--only to discover that the one woman who might capture his heart is the same woman who distrusts him the most?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo matter what you call it, with love there's an exception to every rule. YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME, a Mirabelle Harbor story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks in the Series: \u003cbr\u003eTAKE A CHANCE ON ME (July 2015) \u003cbr\u003eTHE ONE THAT I WANT (July 2015) \u003cbr\u003eYOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME (January 2016) \u003cbr\u003eSTRANGER ON THE SHORE (Coming Spring 2016) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStory Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy friends and I settled our bill and stepped outside of The Lounge just as a ruckus was getting started next door at Max's Pub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You idiot!\" this dopey, burly, drunk guy screamed, ineffectively swinging at another drunk guy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You witless dickhead!\" slurred the second guy. But that didn't mask his identity. As soon as he spoke, I knew who it was. Everyone did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Isn't that Blake Michaelsen?\" Janet whispered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yep,\" I whispered back. I'd only seen him in person once before--at a big event at the radio station this summer--and it was, literally, across a crowded room. But Blake's voice on 102.5 LOVE FM was one of the sexiest I'd ever heard. I listened to him on the radio all the time. And he was my friend Sharlene's older brother, so I knew a few additional facts about him than I might have otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike that he was impulsive. And loud. And kind of a manwhore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen again, he had a rep in town, so most women knew these things, too. It was just that Shar had actually confirmed them for me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlake landed a decent punch and sent the other guy stumbling. But Dopey Dude got back up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh, boy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShar was going to be so pissed when she heard about this. And she would. Probably within three minutes or less. Gossip traveled at the speed of sound in Mirabelle Harbor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was more yelling between the men, along with a bunch of shouts from the sports-bar crowd surrounding them. It reminded me of the stupid hall fights I'd had the misfortune to have to try to break up at the high school. Guys who fought each other because they couldn't rationally reason their way through a discussion. So foolish and immature. And, worse, so painful to the people who actually cared about these cretins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDopey Dude landed a crushing blow to Blake's abdomen. He doubled over and fell to the pavement. Then the other guy started to seriously pummel Blake while the crowd alternately jeered, taunted, and screamed their encouragement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI winced. Blake's dark hair was matted against his forehead with sweat and, also, with some fresh blood. He had a gash across his cheekbones, dirt on his face and neck, and more blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd he was devastatingly handsome, even then.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough, with the angry eyes and the snarl on his lips, he looked like the poster child for one the French revolutionary insurgents in Les Misérables. If he decided to build a barricade, storm the Bastille, or lead the crowd in the first verse of \"Do You Hear the People Sing?\" I wouldn't dare to stand in his way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fact that I couldn't guess whether he'd be more like a hero or a terrorist in any uprising made me immediately uncomfortable, though. I hadn't known he'd be like this. His sister could get a little fiery sometimes, but Shar had a marshmallow heart. Blake, by contrast, looked both self-destructive and vicious. Like he could quite effectively kill someone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, an officer came on the scene and broke up the fight. He ordered us all to leave, but I was rooted to the spot. I couldn't take my eyes off Blake's cut-up face. So many bruises, and he was even spitting blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa nudged me. \"Let's go, Vicky.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore I could make my feet move, though, Blake looked up at me and our gazes collided.","brand":"Twelfth Night Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076745085168,"sku":"2940158439360","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158439360_p0.jpg?v=1764112571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158439360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}