Just One Look
by Joan Reeves
EBook: $0.99

Synopsis:
What would you do if the gynecologist subbing for your regular doctor turned out to be your old high school crush?

Successful psychologist Dr. Jennifer Monroe does what any normal, well-adjusted woman would do. She makes an excuse to send the doctor and nurse from the room, dives into her clothes, and flees!

Unfortunately, her running away makes conscientious Dr. Penrose conclude she has some kind of sexual hangup. He's determined to refer her to another doctor for her health's sake. If he can just talk to her, he'll suggest counseling for what he thinks are emotional problems.

Jennifer refuses to take his phone calls, and she plans to never see him again. After all, Dallas is a big city. What are the odds that she'd ever run into him again? Even money when Fate lends a hand.

When Jennifer and Matt meet at a charity gala, he earnestly urges her to seek professional help. Jennifer is incensed that he seems to think she's some frigid old maid. All the old high school resentment floods back, fueling her determination to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget.

With Jennifer, payback is a scorcher. Kids play doctor, but these doctors play seduction games. And they're playing for keeps.

Will Matt recognize Jennifer? Will Jennifer lure him into her bed? Seduction and sex can be pretty funny when both sides play dirty!

My review:

This book was very sexy! I have read a few books by Reeves and she has not failed me yet. She had me captured from the moment Jennifer realized who her doctor was,(a sexy long ago high-school crush named Matt) until they both FINALLY…. well you will have to just read for yourself but one word to describe it HOT!

I know Jennifer was smart and beautiful but please! She needs to get over the fact that Matt did some stupid shit in the past (everyone's not perfect) and have sex with man already. Matt, what a sexy gentleman he was, loved him from the moment he stepped into that room. I almost wanted to eat him alive myself. Thank the lord the parents stepped in to help them getting some alone time long enough to have some great sex!

These characters were made for each other, both doctors, both hot and single, both want the same thing. I could very well read it again. I give this book 5 out of 5 tongue depressors

Age Range--18 years and up

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Book Review By: Mistress Amanda Romance Reviewer

Will Green: Is Charles Wells your real name or pen name?

Charles Wells: It's my real name. I've been told since childhood that H.G. Wells is a distant cousin but my family tree doesn't show him anywhere. Just the horse thieves and town drunks is all.

Will Green: Well that's a wonderful lineage to lean on. Stealing horses and selling them for drinks. That's a hell of a life. Tell us about your books that you have available? 

Charles Wells: It's what you'd expect from a a man like me who's distant cousin is Doc Holiday. (Yes, Wyatt Earps' best friend) Oh, I bet I failed to mention that he is in my family tree. HA.. Anyhow, I have twelve self published books on the market. Seven are my Whispering Pines suspense/thriller series. Three books are filled with short stories similar to "twilight zone"odd stories and titled Strange Short Tales. One book is non-fiction called Hear the Sunshine. That's about my life dealing with a progressive hearing loss and subsequent Cochlear 22 channel hearing implant operation as an adult. It's not a self help book. It's a book intended to help parents spot hearing problems in their children. It's a funny, southern flavored attitude and inside look at being handicapped. And speaking of funny, the "other" genre and book I have is called Talk Show Cartoons. I've been drawing and writing a cartoons for many years and finally published a small book collection of the best ones. The first raving review I received from a reader at Barnes and Noble said, "What is this crap? This is the stupidest book I have ever seen. Do Not Buy It." This reader at least gave it a one star rating and failed to notice that the book, at that time, was free. (Today it's .99 cents on Amazon) We all have our opinions and that person must have enjoyed sharing their's about Talk Show.  

Will Green: Wow that's a healthy collection you have out there. I think I'm going to slowly start collecting the Whispering Pines Series. Is that an ongoing series or is there an end in sight? And are they available as digital downloads? My preferred method of reading for the past year, I might add.

Charles Wells:  Whispering Pines is available in digital and print.  On the print copies, books 5-7 are in processing now and should be ready soon. The first four are set to go. Hear the Sunshine is digi and print as well. I had the print copies made at trade paperback size (5.5 x 8.5) which is the largest paperback you can buy. I don't care for anything smaller and the costs are not that much more for the readers. They are on Amazon, print and digital, plus I let Smashwords do the rest of the distributions for me which includes Barnes and Noble, Diesel, Kobo, Sony, and Itunes for the Ipad. I've got the digital markets covered from CPU to ram chip I think.

Will Green: I downloaded the first two books of Strange Short Tales, because they were free, which is probably my favorite four letter f word. I'll be reading and reviewing them in due time.

Charles Wells: I put those two out free so readers could take my writing style out for a test drive. They are fun to write and I wanted everyone to see what they got before buying book 3. In that one, there is one story of mine about an F-14 tomcat pilot and his RIO. (rear seat radio guy) I had to get a lot of help from an old friend who flew them for the Navy as a career. He did a wonderful job and the story puts the reader right there on the flight deck. 

Will Green: I bet my father would be interested in reading Here the Sunshine. He lost his hearing in his right ear a few years ago due to a tumor on his hearing nerve on that side. He wears a hearing aid, but sometimes it seems like more of a hassle.

Charles Wells: Sounds like he was hearing a lot but not understanding the words. I talk about that very issue in Hear the Sunshine. I don't get into the medical/technical side of the Cochlear Implant. I try to show people the human side, the ups and downs, the laughs and tears, the fear of having an unseen handicap. One segment in the book is where I tell about getting into trouble with the law when I failed to understand something said to me. It's funny to look back on, but it was a nightmare at the time. As for the critic on my Talk Show Cartoon book, well, its free because I run the cartoon as a series (also free) on my webpage and keep it updated once a week with three panel cartoons. I didn't feel right about bundling them up and selling, so I gave them away and already have another about half finished. That critic is entitled to his opinion about the book though. No hard feelings.. (other than the minor one of my wanting to strangle him purple in the face) 

Will Green: Haha that was nice that guy could give you his opinion like that. I bet a few people picked it up just to see how “stupid” it really was. 

Charles Wells: Very true. I guess most of us like to see a train wreck so long as we aren't on the train when it happens. We flock to house fires, car wrecks, and disasters but when it happens to us, we get mad at the gawkers. We humans are strange.

Will Green: Are you working on something else right now?

Charles Wells: I've always got something in the pot simmering. At the moment though, I'm well under way (10,000 words and counting) with book 8 in the Whispering Pines series. I don't have a title for it yet, but something will develop I'm sure. If not, I might ask that person who gave Talk Show the review mentioned earlier, to name it for me. (snickers) I'm also putting together a collection of short personal quotes that I call Guidelines for Southern Writers. It's a list of "Tweet" sized funny sayings I write down at all times of the day or night and it's getting to be a large document, growing daily. 

Will Green: You're “biggest fan” might just call it Whispering Pines Part 8: Why did you buy this?

If you come up with enough personal quotes for Guidelines for Southern Writers you might just be able to turn it into a daily desktop calendar. 

Charles Wells: Hey, cool, I think I'll steal that title. Hahahahah. (clears throat) Okay, uh, yes, a desk calendar; that or a nice bird cage liner or maybe emblazon the quotes on toilet paper or something. HA..

Will Green: Quotable T.P. Might just be a hit. What can you tell us about your next project?

Charles Wells: If I tell you that, I have to shoot you. No wait, uhh.. Okay. I'm researching several ideas at the moment and making a few "test" runs with them to see if they "click" in my mind. I can tell within a few pages of writing whether something will work or not and trust my "gut" instincts. I'd rather not divulge the genre or much else, but I am sure there are readers out there who might find it enjoyable. If not, then I'm having a ball writing it and that's good enough for me. 

Will Green: Ok, keep your secrets Mr. Wells, but as long as you're having fun that's all that matters. So where do you get the information for your books?

Charles Wells: Thank God for Google and Bing. If it's not in one of those search engines then it's not likely to be found anywhere else on earth. 

Will Green: That may be true for most people, but believe it or not there are still people that steer clear of the internet for research. Have a look at the interview with Khloe Kamalis.

Charles Wells: I saw that interview and agree in theory with some of it. I was around when the internet was running at 300 bauds per second which is, today, like comparing a turtle to a rocket engine. I don't like a lot that has happened with the web but overall, I trust it more than going to the library and looking up something in a 1954 encyclopedia. (HA) My experience is to take an overall average of the information you find and balance it.. subtract twenty percent, and that's most likely the truth. 

Will Green: Twenty percent of the average of the information you find is crap…you must be into statistics.

What was the most surprising thing you've learned since you started writing?

 Charles Wells: I always thought when a book was finished, when you type "The End" then it was over, done with. The rude lesson of that is what many authors learn quickly. Writing the book is the easy part compared to editing, proofing, getting cover art work done, then publishing, and last, marketing which is the straw that could break the camel's back. Getting a story out of my head and into the hands of a reader is a package deal that involves a lot of work by everyone involved in the process.

Will Green: Boy that is the truth. I'm not yet an author myself, but I am learning that lesson from friends I've made along the Wayward Things path I've taken so far. About how long would you say it takes you to write a book? 

Charles Wells: It takes me about six weeks to finish a raw first draft but I'm a full time writer. I write three or four hours of a morning and then spend my afternoons and early evenings editing. When draft one is finished, I send it off to a beta reader to make sure the plot holds up from start to finish. While waiting on that, I start the second draft. That can take several months including having to wait on my beta readers (test readers) to report back from the first draft so I can adjust according to their suggestions. While on that topic, I've learned one important thing about this stage of a book. A writer has to LISTEN to their editors and beta readers. You have to trust them. If all they ever tell you is "WOW.. that's great.. " then find new people. I need honest critic, not praise. My ego is huge like most writers but not during this phase of the process. IN fact, my present final proof reader, the last guy to see my manuscript before it is uploaded it to the retailers, is a vicious, nit picking character that is by far, one of the best in the business. Mistakes still get past him but not many and not often. He is the thunder behind all my lightning.  

Will Green: So it is true you NEED a nit pickity person among your writing “team”. In a guest post with Natasha Larry she referred to this person as an “asshole”. You need someone to tell you it sucks and you can do better, otherwise it will suck and you’ll never do better.

Charles Wells:  That is ironic about Natasha Larry. First off, my proofer's name is Larry and in our morning chat group on the internet, Larry is known as the "asshole."  Hahahah. I swear to you this is so true. Amazing, but yes. I've known Larry for over 40 years and his proofing is an art unmatched by anyone. He keeps words my characters would never say, out of their mouth by marking them and telling me "Catfish would never say ya'll. He would say yawl." 

Will Green: Ohh that’s good! Although Natasha is not the asshole in the group that honor goes to James Crawford, chief book reviewer here on WaywardThings, but Natasha Larry is the one who came up with it. Ok straying off topic, sorry, your Larry seems to be a force to be reckoned with. 

Well who or what inspires you to write?  

Charles Wells: I come from a large family (six kids) and I was the story teller on dark rainy nights. I started writing the better stories down before I was ten years old. I don't think inspiration is what drives me to write. It's the satisfaction of how I can create a place and the people inside that place and use them to entertain others. Writing itself, to me, is a curse. If I go many days without putting something on paper then I feel as though I'm about to explode. I have to write because it's an addiction and I'm always looking for that next great fix (story idea) to get high on.

Will Green: That’s a different sort of inspiration, get a story on paper or explode. That’s incentive I would say. But on a serious note the satisfaction of entertaining others, that’s what it’s all supposed to be about at the end of the day.

Charles Wells: You're a writer too Will so I think I hit a nerve with you.  We write for the same reason a comedian gets up on a stage. We love the thrill, the attention, and the applause. That drives us to do better and better and the way it works for me is like I said. If I'm not having fun writing it, then nobody is going to have fun reading it. That's the bottom line.  

Will Green: That is absolutely it! What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk?

Charles Wells: When I started writing book one of the Whispering Pines series, I realized one day that I had entirely too many plots running at the same time. I ripped out a few and put them aside. Those became the core of book two. While writing book two, the same thing happened again, too many plots, so I ripped out some of those and they became the foundation of book three…and while writing book three, (Do I need to keep going on with this or do you get the idea now?)

Will Green: Got it. Now that you say that a few stories I’ve read and listened come to mind where the authors probably could have done something like that and the main story would’ve been better…or smoother maybe. If too much is going on then the reader can’t keep up and the story fails, for me anyway. 

Charles Wells:  Tom Clancy is horrible about that sometimes, plus he is bad about dumping a pile of facts on the readers that sound more like "look at what I know" than "look at what I want you to see."  I love most of his books and Red October is one of my top 5 movies, but in my opinion, Clancy needs to send his manuscripts to my "asshole" proofer, Larry. They need some fixin' (as he would say)  

Will Green: I’ve read all of the Splinter Cell books and those are under the Clancy banner, but not written by the man himself, but the info dumps weren’t too bad.

What book are you reading right now?

Charles Wells: I'm a member of a group in the Amazon community section of "Meet Our Authors" called "The Spinning Wheel 7thEdition." It's a small but fun group of writers who can take on serious topics for writers or who can babble half the day about their dog's upset stomach. (Ha) Since I don't read books within my own genre (for obvious reasons) I tend to read books from this group so if you are out there looking for some of the best Indy writers around, head to the Spinning Wheel and join the discussion. You'll never regret it.

Will Green: I just might join that group and I bet I know a few others that wouldn’t mind jumping in there to check it out. Who is your favorite author and why?  

Charles Wells: Three way tie between Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Sterling (Twilight Zone) and Stephen King. It's not the genre that attracts me to them. It's the sheer power they have over a reader. They grab you by the front of your shirt and don't let you go until that story is finished. Tom Clancy is good but too winded for my tastes, but Hunt for Red October was one of my all time favorite movies. 

Will Green: I’ve never read anything from those guys except Stephen King, the only thing I read of his was The Talisman and he wrote that with Peter Straub. Great, great story, but then it just kind of ended, he didn’t wrap everything up very well. I don’t know maybe that’s just me. That sort of spoiled me on him and I’m not all about “star power” with big names anyway.

Charles Wells: I think the older King books were the best due to the uniqueness of his style and ability to capture the readers. I like the Talisman too but with his stuff today that edge is gone and he needs to adjust. (Now that takes nerve to offer advice to a professional, does it not?)

Will Green: Wells vs. King…Who will win? Bahh King’s had his time to shine its someone else’s turn now. 

What about music what do you listen to?

Charles Wells: Before going deaf, I played lead guitar in a rock and roll band of the 1960's. I loved everything music except hard country and hard rock. Stephen Wolfe did great songs but I hated to watch them. Weird. Ha!

Will Green: Your band, was it a big name people might recognize. Some people just don’t have stage power, so that’s not weird at all. 

Charles Wells: Our "heyday" was in the mid to late 1960's so I doubt anyone would remember. We played opening act for several large groups at the time including the Almond Brothers once, The Turtles, and one other act/show I forget the name. We were called The Rainy Day Mods but outside of Georgia, I doubt anyone will remember us.

Will Green: I know the Almond Brothers, but not The Turtles, unless they are of the teenage mutant ninja variety and The Rainy Day Mods…nope sorry.

What do you watch on TV and why?

Charles Wells: I love to watch NCIS but the last two seasons have gone a bit stale. Time to change the writers I think. I pray if my Whispering Pines writing gets that stale, that somebody will let me know.

Will Green: That’s the way those police procedurals do, they’re good for a while, but then how far can you take the same old story with different characters. That’s when the story needs a good twist to get the creative juices flowing in the writers again. Something crazy, some kind of shock to the overall system. So maybe if your Whispering Pines series starts to feel stale, just do something no one expects, let’s not leap to a parallel universe or anything like that, unless somehow it just works.

Charles Wells: I fully agree and my wife and I have discussed ending the series. She wants everyone to get married and live happily ever after. I want to blow them up with a nuke or something.. hahahahaha.. She will win I'm sure. I hate unhappy or plain hateful endings. I don't kill off characters that don't need it.

Will Green: Wedding/Nuke I’m sure there’s a happy medium in there somewhere…geez!

What kind of advice could you give an aspiring writer?

Charles Wells: Expose your soul and follow your nose, break a few rules, run with scissors if you have to. Most important of all, be natural and write what flows, not what you have to force out. Writers block is not being unable to come up with something. Writer's block is not figuring out the best way to get it out and on paper (or into a computer). Above all, never cheat your readers. And here's icing for the writing cake. My favorite quote from the Laws for a Southern Writer says it all. "If the story ain't no fun to write, then it damn sure ain't going to be any fun to read." Good luck to you.. Write where no man or woman has ever written before, if that don't work then write where you have the most fun.

Will Green: Excellent advice, thank you very much for the advice and your time Charles.

Charles Wells:  Thank you Will and good luck to you in the future. Special thanks to those reading as well. "Yawl come see us, ya hear?"

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