By: Jennifer Doyle
Releasing
April 11, 2016
Carina Press
Carina Press
Blurb
Baseball player Nathan Hawkins needs
to get away from Chicago. After a near career-ending car accident and with
paparazzi surrounding his penthouse, Nate can only think of one place to go:
home. But when he finds his old apartment occupied by a half-naked woman
wielding a baseball bat, he's not sure what to think...except that maybe his
luck has finally changed for the better.
Librarian Dorie Donelli never thought
she'd get to meet her fantasy man in person—much less while she’s wearing her
bathrobe. To her surprise, her nearly naked run-in with Nate leads to more
unclothed encounters. But Dorie is sure their fling is only temporary. As long
as she remembers he’ll be gone once his life gets back on track, she won’t get
hurt. In the meantime, she throws herself into enjoying their three weeks
together before he has to report for spring training and go back to his old
life.
For Nate, being with Dorie is the only
time in months that he finds himself smiling. Laughing. And he has
no intention of letting that go. He might even be falling in love…if only Dorie
will let him say the words. What they have isn’t just a dream, but the start of
a dream come true.
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Author Info
A big believer in happily ever afters, Jen
Doyle decided it was high time she started creating some. Jen is a
member of the Romance Writers of America, as well as a member of the New
England, New Jersey Romance Writers and Music City Romance Writer chapters of
RWA. She is represented by Sarah E. Younger of the Nancy Yost Literary Agency.
She has an M.S. in Library and Information Science and, in addition to her work
as a librarian, has worked as a conference and events planner as well as a
Communications and Enrollment administrator in both preschool and higher
education environments (although some might say that there is very little
difference between the two; Jen has no comment regarding whether she is one of
the “some”).
CALLING IT is her first book, the first of two which
will be published by Carina Press in 2016. It was the winner of The Beacon,
the Finish the Damn Book, and the Melody of Love 2014 contests
in the Contemporary Romance category, and was also the Contemporary Romance
winner as well as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Gateway to the
Best contest.
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Excerpt
It
wasn’t until Nate looked down to turn off the phone that he remembered where he
was—that the woman who lived here was down the hall. Hell, she’d probably
barricaded herself in the bathroom in order to keep a locked door between her
and the stranger who’d barged in on her in the middle of the night.
And
ate her dinner, he thought with a quiet laugh.
He’d
give her back her phone and let her know he was leaving. Nowhere to stay, but
he had a very expensive tiny car he could sleep in.
He
found her in the bedroom, changing the sheets, which he would have told her she
didn’t have to do if his heart hadn’t just lodged itself directly into his
throat, cutting off any possibility of speech. Her pajama pants and T-shirt
weren’t nearly as revealing as the robe had been, but her bending over the bed
and straightening out the corner stirred up something deep inside of him. And
now the only thing running through his mind was how soft her hair would be when
he wrapped it around his hand; how warm and wet she’d be when he buried himself
inside her.
“Christ,
woman,” he groaned. He grabbed the doorjamb above his head and he clutched it
so hard he practically splintered the wood.
She
gasped as she straightened up and spun around, her hand flying to her chest. “I
was… I was just…”
She
bit her lip and sank down until she was sitting on the edge of the bed. Her
eyes met his, and he had to tell himself he couldn’t take her right here. He
needed to focus on climbing out of this hole—he didn’t have the time to fall
further in, no matter how enjoyable that might be.
But he
couldn’t look away.
Her
eyes were a deep dark brown, the same color as the hair piled on top of her
head. He wanted to trace the golden skin along her collarbone to the hollow of
her throat, wanted his tongue on every part of her. And the glasses she now
wore almost undid him.
If
she’d been wearing those with the robe? When she’d hiked that bat up over her
shoulder?
Holy. Shit.
Turned out he liked a woman who would take him on without even blinking an eye.
Who knew?
He
especially liked it when her interested gaze traveled down his chest, past his
waist… He liked it too much, actually. Only the quickly summoned thought of
David Ortiz slamming into him at home plate stopped him from embarrassing
himself in a way he hadn’t since he was practically a kid.
Even
that almost wasn’t enough when she said, “I, um, changed the sheets. So you can
take the bed.”
All
control vanished as the words just came pouring out of his mouth. “The only way
I take the bed is if I take you in it with me.”
His
heart nearly raced its way out of his chest in the seconds before she replied,
“I bet you say that to all the girls.” Laughter danced in her eyes and a wicked
grin came over her face when her eyes again dropped to his cock and then
quickly came back up. She bit her bottom lip before whispering, “Hungry?”
Miguel Cabrera. Adrian Beltre. Derek fucking Jeter.
He
gripped the doorjamb tighter.
“I
could eat,” he answered as evenly as he could manage.
For a
moment they just stayed where they were, staring.
When
she stood and walked toward him, he almost blinked. This was a dream. It had to
be. Or some elaborate setup that Pete had come up with in order to get Nate’s
mind off everything else. Put this fantasy of a woman in front of him—feisty
and looking so innocent and cute while she offered up anything he wanted to take—until
he was so goddamn spent he could finally get over himself and start living his
life again.
Except
then she brushed past him as she walked out of the room, pausing only to
whisper into his ear, “I think you need another minute.”
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