As the owner of Prime, an infamous Manhattan bar that had been in his family for over 80 years, Gabriel Cormac Silas O'Sullivan, was usually quite content with his life and had the job he always dreamed of. He enjoyed the banter with the regulars, the talents of his loyal bar tending staff, particularly Tessa Hart with her phenomenal skills in quickly mixing drinks, especially the tropical bar drinks from her Florida life and the steadfastness of his brother Daniel. All he lacked was control over his womanizing younger brother, Sean, and a permanent woman in his life.

While he cared about a lot of people, he had a special place in his heart for Tessa. When he found out she had to find new digs in less than five days, he quickly offered her his spare room. While he told her, it would be totally platonic, his brothers and staff differed on that and they instantly set up a pool on how fast they would be in bed together.

For her part, Tessa enjoyed Gabe and often let her eyes linger a second too long on his muscular and trim backside. She valued him as a boss and a friend more than any other man in the world. But, the dream that held her together since she moved from Florida four years earlier was to be the sole occupant of a special apartment in the most perfect building for her in all of New York. With her goal of independence, could she really move in with Gabe? She knew her decision was sure to leave her shaken and stirred, but would it be the right mix for her?

As the lead story in a trilogy on the O'Sullivan brothers, Kathleen O'Reilly has delivered a hot and steamy winner! As Tessa fluctuates between dependence, independence, and intradependence, she soon realizes that building on her strengths, such as her encyclopedic memory of drinks and Manhattan real estate, and her values will do more for her than following a standard path. For his part, Gabe is the perfect kind of guy you want to linger in your fantasies as you fall asleep at night. "Shaken, not Stirred" is one hot, hot Blaze novel that will go down so smooth, you will thirst and beg for the next two in the series! Enjoy!

Book Summary

As a student and part-time bartender in Manhattan, Tessa Hart has found that a succession of roomies and cramped apartments are necessary evils in her life. Until she's out on the street and Gabe O'Sullivan, her mentor, boss and certified babe-magnet, steps in.

Any other woman would die to share his apartment—not to mention his bed—but Tessa's determined that they should stay just friends. The fiercely independent mixologist has to prove to their skeptical coworkers at Prime—the O'Sullivans' hot Manhattan bar—that the arrangement is strictly hands-off! But Tessa has trouble adhering to her own "no touching" rule when the actual sharing of close quarters day and night leaves her shaken and stirred….