Why are the good ones always taken?

The last thing Amber wants to think about is engagement rings or anything related to engagement rings, but they're kind of hard to avoid when she makes her living in a jewelry store. Between her job and her last relationship, she's getting more than a little bit jaded about romance. In fact, as her cynicism grows, she's ready to change everything in her life... and a man is the last thing she wants.

When gorgeous bartender Jeremy wanders into her store, she's willing to reconsider what she wants right now, but he's off the menu?he's here for an engagement ring.

But as Jeremy comes back again and again to look at the ring, Amber suspects it's not just the price that's keeping him from taking it home.

She'd never dream of sabotaging someone's relationship, but is Jeremy about to make a huge mistake?

This 23,000 word novella was previously published.

Lauren Gallagher is an abnormal romance writer currently living in the wilds of Omaha, Nebraska. She and her husband, along with a coyote-iguana hybrid and two and a half cats, are thought to be in hiding from the Polynesian Mafia and a debt collector in search of a fine for an overdue book from the Library of Alexandria. Lauren continues to skillfully, if somewhat clumsily, elude them, but continues to have run-ins with her arch nemesis, M/M erotic romance author L. A. Witt. The implementation of Operation: I Don't Think So is expected to resolve that problem soon enough.