title: Kiss: A Girl's Guide to Puckering Up
author: Erin E. Conley
description: <DIV>2011 ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Award<BR></DIV>
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  BEAR NO DEFEAT
  PUCK BEAR BRIDES
  BOOK 4
  BY
  ANYA NOWLAN
   
  
  A LITTLE TASTE…
   
  “So, shower and then dinner, right?” Alice asked, as Jax seemed to have forgotten himself by
  staring at her, a soft look in his eyes.
  “Right,” he said, shaking out of his stupor. “We should go get that shower, then.”
  He smiled wide, a devilish glint in his eyes.
  “We?” she echoed, quirking a brow. “Aren’t we being forward here.”
  “Maybe,” Jax said with a shrug, taking a sip of his drink before putting it down on a nearby
  counter and turning to her again. “But I’m going to kiss you now and you’re not going to argue.”
  Alice opened her mouth in time to start doing just that, but then his warm, callused palms
  brushed gently against her face, his thumbs on her cheeks as he leaned in and kissed her on the lips
  with all the reverent affection she could imagine. It kicked the air right out of her lungs, and instead of
  fighting against it as she thought she would, Alice found herself putting her hands on his wrists and