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Back In the Game
Stardust, Texas # 1
Stardust, Texas # 1
By: Lori Wilde
Releasing February 24th, 2015
Avon
New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde welcomes
you to Stardust, Texas . . . where dreams come true and love is always right
around the corner
Wanted:
ghostwriter. Must be female, a baseball fan, and have a great pair of legs.
Ex-pitcher Rowdy
Blanton never saw a woman he couldn't conquer or a team he couldn't beat. And
now that he's off the field he's ready to tell all about when he played the
field. So he chooses Breeanne Carlyle to do the job-she's got the requirements,
but more important, there's something about her that makes him want to be a
better man.
Convinced there's
more to Rowdy than a good fastball, a wicked smile, and a tight pair of pants,
Breeanne can't help but be tempted. After all, it's boring always being the
good girl, and Rowdy dares her to be just a little bad. The stakes are high,
but win or lose, this time Breeanne's breaking all the rules playing the game of love.
He
tilted his head, squinted, imagining her without the glasses, a better haircut,
and several helpings of his famous spaghetti carbonara inside of her. Nope.
Still not seeing the appeal. Except it dawned on him for the first time that
she was wearing a Gunslingers’ baseball jersey with number eleven emblazoned on
it.
His number.
C’mon,
was his ego that big? He wanted her just because she was wearing his number?
“Rowdy!
Rowdy!”
He
looked down to see an exuberant gap-toothed eight-year-old tugging on the hem
of his T-shirt, and clutching the autographed baseball he’d just signed for the
kid.
“My
dad says I can throw a screwball better ’an you,” the boy bragged.
“No
kidding?”
“Wanna
see? Wanna see?”
“This
might not be the best place to throw a ball around what with—” Rowdy didn’t get
to finish the sentence because lightning-fast, the kid cocked his left arm, and
slung an impressive screwball that bobbed sailed over a table burdened with
collectable glassware.
Sending
people gasping, scattering and ducking out of the way. Except for Plain Jane
standing against the tree reading her book.
She
never looked up.
The
baseball smacked into the tree trunk above her, and then plopped squarely on
top of her head. Her eyes rounded, her mouth curled into a startled O, the book
fell from her hands…
And she
keeled right over.
“Jimmy,
what have you done?” the boy’s horrified mother exclaimed.
The
crowd turned to gawk.
Rowdy was already in motion,
instinct shooting him toward the woman as fast as he could run.
Loved it, loved it, loved it! Lori does a great job starting this new series. It has humor, romance, mystery, and even a little magic. I happen to love baseball, so Rowdy was the perfect hero for me. He was a good guy underneath his player persona and he really helped Breeanne spread her wings. The way he makes her feel special in a good way is priceless. Breeanne is tougher than even she thinks she is, she is a survivor who doesn't know the meaning of the word quit. There were so many funny moments that I found myself constantly smiling as I was reading. I also really enjoyed the magical element with the hope chest and I can't wait to see what it has in store for her sisters!
New
York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lori Wilde has sold seventy-eight
works of fiction to four major New York Publishing houses.
Her
first NYT bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First
Love Cookie Club has been optioned for a television movie. The town of
Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas is loosely
based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.
A
popular writing instructor, Lori is a two time RITA finalist and has four times
been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. She's won the
Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Golden
Quill, the Lories, and The More than Magic.
Thank you so much for featuring me and for the kind review. I truly appreciate it.
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