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Worse, pretend you’re moving across the country. This means all of your possessions – including your prized collection of books – are being packed away to travel in a moving van and arrive at your new home…well, someday. Further pretend that, for reasons only explained by a case of temporary insanity, you and your husband decide to gather up three pets (who have never been crated, let alone traveled in a car for more than the four minutes it took to drive to the vet) and a few non-pet items and take off from Maryland for California.

Think: circus.

Imagine how many “necessary” items you’ll need to stuff into that car for the approximate 3,000 mile trip and the first week (or so) when you get to the new house and prepare to wait for the moving van to arrive. Now imagine trying to pick the books that will make the car ride with you and the rest of the traveling circus. You can pick three – yes, only three!

This scenario happened to me. We safely arrived at our new home yesterday. After ten or so months of therapy and medication, I’ll be fine. It will take a bit longer to work off all that fast food we ate on the way, but I really only have myself to blame for that one.

When taking off for California, I grabbed the following books and stuffed them in the few open spaces in the car:

1. Ravished by Amanda Quick – This has always been my favorite Quick book. Probably has something to do with the fossils and The Beast of Blackthorne Hall and the hasty marriage. Irresistible.

2. You Don’t Know Jack by Erin McCarthy – I’m a big Erin fan and this is her newest Brava.

3. Billionaires Prefer Blondes by Suzanne Enoch – Never read Enoch before but the first paragraph of the publisher’s description was enough for me:

“Samantha Jellicoe has never met a security camera she couldn’t disarm. And even though she’s promised her billionaire lover, the irresistible Richard Addison, to walk the straight and narrow, she certainly can’t help it when trouble finds her.”

Think about it. If you somehow got tied up in this sort of driving adventure – and you wouldn’t since you are all much, much smarter than I am – which three books would you grab? And, in honor of the holiday week, give me your list between now and Thanksgiving day, and I’ll pick a person from those commenting to win a signed copy of one of my books – When Good Things Happen To Bad Boys or Viva Las Bad Boys! Your choice.

I’ll post the winner here on Friday…unless, or course, I’m still recovering from the recent road trip (or an overdose of Thanksgiving Day turkey) and sleep through Friday.

Good luck!