Stakeout for Love

An Excerpt From: STAKEOUT FOR LOVE

Copyright © CHRISTIE WALKER BOS, 2009

All Rights Reserved, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

“What is this?” Skyler asked—before she saw her name and photo at the top of the page.

“It’s your new profile.”

“My what?” Skyler scanned the page. “I like camping? When’s the last time I’ve been camping?”

“Two summers ago and you loved it, remember?”

“A great cook? I eat out of a bag ninety percent of the time.”

“But you can cook and when you do, it’s amazing.”

Skyler continued to scan the page. Cath had created a profile of the woman she could be, would love to be, if she wasn’t so absorbed in her work.

“This is a lie,” Skyler pronounced and handed her profile back to Cath. “It’s exactly what’s wrong with computer dating…people lie.”

“But it’s not a lie. This is you—or at least it could be if you stopped working long enough to have some fun.”

Skyler shook her head.

“One of the reasons you’ve been attracting all these losers is your profile. It’s dull and lifeless. I read it to Pete and he didn’t even recognize you. You’re fun and funny.”

“I am? I don’t feel fun.”

“Exactly my point. You need someone who will bring that Skyler back to life and I think I’ve found him.”

“What?”

Cath just smiled.

“What have you done, Cath?”

“Besides opening a new account for you, creating a new profile and screening your matches?”

“I am seriously going to kill you.”

“There is one more little, teeny, tiny thing.”

“What?” Skyler asked, barely above a whisper, wondering whether she should strangle Cath right there in the car or cut up her credit cards in front of her—both options would be equally painful.

“You’re meeting someone in,” Cath looked at her watch, “fifteen minutes.”