That's -Not Exactly- Amore by Tracey Bateman

You know how we New Yorkers love to find the 'latest thing.' Who knows how long the upward swing will last for Nick? But I doubt he'll ever return to the obscurity he enjoyed once upon a time. Nick desperately needs to expand after a newspaper article last summer proclaimed his shop 'the best-kept secret in Manhattan.' Now the little place is bursting at the seams as hordes of customers breeze right by the Starbucks across the street in favor of Nick's-the new trend. Renovating the coffee shop seems like the perfect idea, really. As project manager (and don't ask me why I have to be the head cheese-Jazz gets better grades), it's my job to find our project, assign tasks, and oversee every detail to its completion. Sort of like that show The Apprentice? Only there's just Jazz and me. It's a joint project for my partner, Jazz, and me. My final semester is about putting what I've supposedly learned into practice. But as I look around Nick Pantalone's newly expanded coffee shop, I know this is my last chance to get anything close to a passing grade in my interior design course. At this point, anyone with a smidge of conscience would just admit to being out of her league and walk away before she could do any actual damage to the place. I stare at Nick Pantalone's beefy hand but hesitate before taking it. If this is the chance I've been waiting for, then why does it feel like I'm in over my head? I mean, like I'm five feet tall in seven feet of water and haven't the foggiest idea how to swim.

Thanks to Janelle Mowery for your help with critiques and for your friendship. Nancy Toback: Thanks so much for being willing to share your time and friendship. Rusty, Cat, Mike, Stevan, Will, my family: I hit the jackpot when God gave me you guys. Visit our Web site at First eBook Edition: August 2008ĭedicated to Julie Young-a forever friend Scripture quotations are also taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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That's -Not Exactly- Amore by Tracey Bateman