Wild Action

Wild Action
Dawn Stewardson

A screwball romantic comedy with wild animal attraction!Animal magnetism!Nick Montgomery was a cop, not an animal trainer. At least, not until he quit his job on the promise of an inheritance and found out he owned half of Wild Action, an animal talent agency.The other half belonged to Carly Dumon, his dead uncle's prot&#233gée, and a very attractive one at that. Of course, Nick told himself he wasn't interested. All he wanted was to put Wild Action in the black and sell his share so he could go back to his real life–even if that meant solving the mystery behind the series of "accidents" plaguing the agency.But that was before Attila the bear fell in love with him and refused to behave for anyone else. It was also before he fell in love with Carly, who didn't behave for anyone!

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#ue43c9de1-898e-581b-8207-0e216508d33f)

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Dear Reader (#u3ae7e474-979b-536c-91b4-c54bd12b4fa6)

Title Page (#ufd879068-0c51-5d60-8936-feb7777dad00)

Dedication (#u5ff132e4-2d7a-50b1-8cbb-38fa6f3f3133)

Chapter One (#u8371d6a1-685a-5d99-bd81-55761326990d)

Chapter Two (#u5a9ca8c2-f260-5a44-b7f9-e76a115eef2a)

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“He’s not exactly Winnie the Pooh,”

Nick whispered nervously.

“He’s going to love you,” Carly whispered back. “Hi, Attila,” she called to the bear. “I’ve brought someone to meet you.”

Attila grunted, then fixed Nick with a glare that didn’t look even remotely loving. Not that he really wanted the bear’s love. He’d be happy if it just didn’t eat him!

Carly rubbed the big bear’s nose, then said, “Attila, that’s Nick. I want you to go and say hello to him. Two feet.”

Standing up, he looked like an enormous sumo wrestler in a fur coat.

“Good boy,” Carly said. “Now go say hello.”

Attila gave a little snort and started toward Nick, who swallowed hard. “Hello, Attila.”

The bear eyed him for another second, then took a final step forward, wrapped its arms around him and began squeezing him to death.

Dear Reader,

In Tinseltown, Wild Action would be pitched as a romantic screwball comedy: Dirty Harry meets Gentle Ben.

Of course, hero Nick Montgomery meets a whole lot more critters than just Attila the bear when he inherits half of an animal talent agency. And in the beginning he doesn’t have a clue how to deal with any of them.

He also doesn’t have a clue how to deal with his newfound partner, Carly Dumont But that’s what makes the romance fun.

As an animal lover, I found this book a delight to write. It’s not often that my research involves something like visiting an animal ranch and being licked by a bear, but the research for this one did. (And yes, bears’ tongues really are warm and smooth. For some reason, I was expecting them to be rough, like a cat’s.)

At any rate, I hope you enjoy reading about Carly, Nick and the antics of the animals in the Wild Action agency.

Warmest regards,

Dawn Stewardson

Wild Action

Dawn Stewardson

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

To John, always.

With special thanks to Janet Howsam and

Norman Phillips of the Northwood Buffalo and Exotic Animal

Farm in Seagrave, Ontario, for giving me a special tour and