How to Knit a Wild Bikini
by Christie Ridgway

The beachside shop, Malibu & Ewe, is the knitting hot spot for L.A.'s hip young crowd to enjoy colorful yarn and intimate conversation. Through the back doors comes the sounds of the Pacific surf, and inside you can hear the dish on brewing new romances...

Chef Nikki Carmichael's bum knee has ended her days in a restaurant kitchen but she has new possibilities as the private chef for man-about-town Jay Buchanan. No, not those kind of possibilities, even though the terms of her employment include acting as his girlfriend on occasion. Nikki's looking for work, not love, and certainly not with über-bachelor, boink-'em-then-wave-bye-bye Jay. Which should be fine with him, since he claims to have given up women for the next three-hundred-sixty-five loooong days and even loooonger nights.

But Nikki's ability to withstand his charms only serves to ensnare his interest. He finds himself hanging out in his kitchen more and more, even as the heat between them rises to dangerous levels. Despite his vow to keep away from the fairer sex, Jay's starting to think it's time to turn up the flames...

Christie Ridgway's Bio

The SUN rose on romance for me when I was 11 years old and caught my first glimpse of that certain teen hottie on the cover of a Tigerbeat magazine. Practical even then, I realized that my chances of meeting dazzling coverboy were slim, so I wrote my own reality in a series of romantic stories (I was already dreaming of becoming a published author) that I shared with my best friend. Today, those stories are locked away in a box. The key is lost, thank you God.

It was near the SURF in Santa Barbara that I found the real man I would share my life with. We met my freshman year at college during the Halloween Dance. He went as The Wind. I didn't understand it then, I don't understand it now. However, after our first meeting he called me "Princess" when he saw me (later found out he couldn't remember my name) and I discovered he could play the "Peanuts" theme on the piano. Diplomas, first jobs, and a few years later, we married and now have two sons.

Like waves crashing onto the SAND, my dream of becoming a published author never ended. But still practical, I worked for a number of years as a technical writer and computer programmer. Then I rediscovered the joy of romance novels between rounds of Lego-building and reading GOODNIGHT MOON to my young sons. Mom had always said I could do whatever I wanted, and now I knew that I wanted to write books that provided entertainment and emotional satisfaction.

SEX (threw that in to keep you reading!) is not what my books are all about. Sure, there's sizzle on the pages but there's also drama and then there's the suspense of discovering how two people can find their happily-ever-after. I believe in those, by the way. So come on, let me tell you a love story. Let me take you to warm, sexy, and romantic California.