In
Her Eyes
Wesley
Banks
Genre:
Sports Romance
Publisher:
Chasing Pace Publishing
Date
of Publication: 3/14/16
ISBN:
978-0-9861934-2-2
ASIN:
TBA
Number
of pages: 264
Word
Count: 57,000
Cover
Artist: Dane at eBook Launch
Book
Description:
When
Ben Wilder is given a second chance he focuses on the one thing he's
always been good at: running. After walking on to the University of
Florida he begins to quickly move up the national rankings, paving a
path towards the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Everything is
going the way he planned, until the day he bumps into Casey Taylor.
New
to Gainesville, and focused on her first year out of medical school,
Casey is initially hesitant to let Ben into her life. But the truth
is she's worried about letting a guy near the one thing she loves
most: her daughter, Emma. After one fun and fateful night Casey can
no long bury her feelings behind these excuses, and takes a chance on
a guy she is slowly falling for.
Casey's
relationship with Ben starts to gradually build into a love that she
has never felt. But more importantly Emma has taken a particular
liking to Ben. As they all spend more time together Ben is forced to
confront painful memories when he starts to notice something
hauntingly familiar in Emma's eyes.
After
a local journalist uncovers the secret of Ben's past their lives
begin to converge on a single promise that Ben Wilder has long since
made: to never give up...no matter what.
Excerpt:
Ben
was tired, but he was excited when he woke up on Monday morning. It
was Casey’s day off and Coach had given the team the week off,
minus a team meeting this afternoon, since they had another month
until the NCAA Championships.
Emma’s
school started at seven forty-five which meant if he got to Casey’s
around eight, they could spend the whole day just relaxing.
When
he arrived the garage was shut, so he walked up to the front door.
Before he could knock, though, the door swung open and Casey jumped
on him, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his
waist.
“My
hero,” she said in a terrible southern accent. Then she started
giving him little pecks all over his head and face.
He
walked inside with her still wrapped around him and kicked the door
shut. Laughing, he said, “Who is this strange girl, and what did
you do with Casey?”She continued on in the southern accent. “You
won the race for your beloved and claimed victory.”
Ben
sat her on the backside of the couch and looked down at her. “What
on earth has gotten into you?”
“You,
Sir Runner. Now, take me, take me now.” Casey puckered up her lips
playfully and Ben laughed.
Ben
leaned in to give her a quick kiss, thinking she might taste or smell
like alcohol, because right now that was the only explanation he
could come up with. She tasted like…cookies.
He
looked around the room and to his right, sitting on the kitchen
counter, he found his answer. He let go of Casey and she fell
backwards onto the couch.
“Hey!”
she said as she hit the couch cushion.
Ben
walked over to the kitchen and picked up a small tub of Cookies ’n
Cream ice cream and a bag of Fudge Filled Chewy Chips Ahoy. He held
up both and looked over at Casey who was half-hiding, half-peering
over the top of the couch. “Please tell me you are not eating
cookies and ice cream at eight o’clock in the morning.”
Casey
jumped over the couch and came running at Ben, a ball of sugar filled
energy. She wrapped her arms around his waist, her legs around the
back of his calves, and inched her way up his body. When she reached
the top she bombarded his neck with kisses. “My hero,” she said.
She stopped for a moment and looked at him with the most devious,
sensual grin. She leaned in closer until there was almost no space
between her lips and his. Then like a cheetah springing on a gazelle,
she grabbed the ice cream with her left hand and the cookies with her
right, hit the ground and took cover on the couch.
“You
have serious problems,” Ben said.
Casey
pulled out a cookie and dipped it in the ice cream and held it up for
him to see. Then she started humming and dancing the cookie around
like she was taunting him.
Ben
took two steps, dove across the couch, snatched the cookie from her
hand and shoved it in his mouth before she could barely move. She
looked at him wide eyed and in complete silence and then jumped on
him. They wrestled and tickled each other like five-year-olds,
stopping every now and then for a quick cookie break.
This
went on for about thirty more minutes and then she crashed on the
floor next to him. Her head lay across his chest as he played with
her hair until eventually he crashed too.
About
the Author:
Wesley
Banks was born in 1983 and grew up on the west coast of Florida. He
graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s and
Master’s degree in Civil Engineering. After spending over 7 years
building movable bridges from Florida to Washington he decided to
focus on his true passion: writing.
Wesley
recently moved from Florida to Oregon to get back to the great
outdoors that he loves so much. He lives with his wife Lindsey, and
his two dogs Linkin and Story. Most of his time these days is spent
writing, with as much rock climbing, hiking, or skiing as they can
fit in.
Wesley’s
debut novel, Hope In Every Raindrop, was released May of 2015.
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