Series: Love
Games, #1
ISBN: 9781492651499
Pub Date: February
6, 2018
These successful professionals may know
something about sex...but discover they’re clueless about love.
She’s earned her position
Kate Snyder is at the top of her game.
She scored her first national championship at Wolcott University in her
undergrad days, and now she’s the coaching legend of the #1 college women’s
basketball team. No one knows the meaning of the phrase “work your way up”
better than Kate. So when the university hires a football coach trying to
escape scandal—paying him a lot more than she earns—Kate is more than annoyed.
He just sailed into his
Danny McMillan had hoped for a smooth
transition at Wolcott, but fiery Coach Snyder made that impossible. Every time
he and Kate are in a room together, snark and sparks fly. Danny gets her
frustration, but her pay grade isn’t his problem, right? When Kate and Danny
finally see eye to eye, their sparks turn into something even hotter…and they
need to figure out if this is more than just a game.
EXCERPT...
Kate yanked open her front door and almost dropped her beloved
Tea-Rex mug as she stared bleary-eyed at the surprise addition to her front
porch. An oversized shoe box sat on her “Come back after basketball season”
doormat.
She toed the mystery box, then glanced from left to right, making
sure no one lurked in the shrubs waiting to snap a picture of her bending over
in stretched-loose gym shorts and a faded T-shirt. The warm mug curled close to
her chest, she squatted and flipped the lid off the box with one finger. Breath
caught in her lungs, and she blinked in surprise.
The shoes nestled in the folds of tissue paper were a swirl of
outlandishly obnoxious neon colors. So bright, mere humans would need a pinhole
projector to view them properly. She fell in love on sight.
“Come to me, my pretties,” she whispered, setting her tea aside to
draw the box closer. The tissue crinkled as she pushed it back. “Where did you
come from, huh? Shoe fairies?” She touched one neon-orange lace and sighed. “Are
you looking for a good home?” She peeked at the label on the box. “Look at
that. Just my size.”
Caffeine and nowhere-to-be-seen newspaper forgotten, she lowered the
lid, gathered the box in her arms, and carried the precious foundlings inside.
Perched on the edge of the sofa, she stared at the prize in her lap.
Her heart thrummed against her breastbone, and a giddy, bubbly rush of
anticipation simmered in her veins. She couldn’t remember the last time someone
had given her a present, much less one this heart-trippingly perfect. She bit
down on the tip of her tongue as she tossed the lid aside. A girly laugh of
delight rushed past her lips the second she caught a glimpse of the shoes in
the light.
Hooking her fingers under the laces, she plucked them from their
tissue nest. The box fell to the floor unheeded as she gave the shoes an
impetuous little hug. She knew it was silly but didn’t really care. Let other
women swoon over toothpick-heeled Jimmy Choos. She was a pushover for leather
and mesh uppers with gel-filled insoles.
Setting one shoe aside, she gathered the tips of the laces to line
them up. Her greedy gaze cataloged the number of eyelets and mapped the exact
route she’d take through the tongue flap. It wasn’t until she reached for the
second shoe that she noticed the words inked inside the box lid. The thick,
bold slashes of black magic marker seemed harsh and sharply incongruous with
the colorful gift.
She stared at the message, the pricey shoe dangling from her
fingertips and her heart lodged in her throat.
Danny.
She shook her head hard. No. It couldn’t be.
Or could it?
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