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    "title": "Playing Mr. Perfect  - Clay Braden",
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    "description": "Quarterback Clay \"Mr. Perfect\" Braden is determined to show sexy scientist Pepper Montgomery the benefits of hands-on research in PLAYING MR. PERFECT, the first book in the Bradens at Ridgeport series by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, opposites-attract standalone romance is unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you breathless.\n\nWhat happens in Paris, stays in Paris, right?\nOh, Pepper. If only...\n\nOkay, I admit it.\n\nSleeping with the NFL quarterback who the media has dubbed Mr. Perfect might not have been the smartest move, but I\u2019m in the City of Love, I\u2019d had a few drinks, and was jacked up on giddy girl talk and hopeful hearts\u2014two things I never buy into\u2014and I threw caution to the wind.\n\nI want to sneak out before he wakes up, but when I open my eyes, he\u2019s already up.\n\nIn more ways than one.\n\nConvincing the ridiculously cocky (pun intended) man that I\u2019m not the woman he slept with last night is awkward.\n\nActually, he makes it impossible.\n\nThe thing is, I don\u2019t even know who that woman was.\n\nAnd now he\u2019s determined to find out.\n\n**\n\nTHE BRADENS AT RIDGEPORT\nPlaying Mr. Perfect\nSincerely, Mr. Braden\nMore Bradens coming soon!\n\nAbout the Series: Fall in love with the Bradens at Ridgeport and join these business-savvy, pleasure-oriented New Englanders as they fall head over heels with their forever loves.",
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