Series:
Arlington Aces #1
Author:
Elley Arden
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: May
16, 2016
Publisher:
Crimson
Romance
Length:
66k
words
Format:
Digital
Digital
ISBN: 978-1-4405-9151-8
Synopsis:
Commercial
real estate mogul Rachel Reed is the one person her father can depend
on, so when he walks into her Philadelphia office two weeks shy of
her fortieth birthday to drop a personal and professional bomb, she
rises to the occasion. She will help get his independent professional
baseball team up and running before the inaugural season, and then …
she will sell the team to recoup his substantial investment. It’s a
tall order, but Rachel knows one thing for sure: a sexy nuisance from
her past and a few acres of trees won’t stand in her way.
Former
minor-leaguer-turned-landscaper Sam Sutter is surprised to find his
brother’s ex in the woods behind the house he bought when he cashed
out his signing bonus and said so long to baseball. He’s even more
surprised to learn “his” trees are on her chopping block. There’s
no way he’ll desecrate his nature-loving mother’s memory by
letting that happen. But butting heads with the beautiful business
woman is a tricky task that leads Sam to accept a position as head
groundskeeper at her father’s stadium. Working under Rachel’s
watchful, smoldering eyes might be Sam’s undoing.
She
doesn’t know a thing about baseball. He swore off the sport ten
years ago. But strange things happen when field dust gets in your
veins.
Excerpt
He didn’t trust her, and that was even before she tilted her head and regarded him through narrowed eyes. “You of all people must be excited about my father bringing professional baseball to Arlington.”
He didn’t trust her, and that was even before she tilted her head and regarded him through narrowed eyes. “You of all people must be excited about my father bringing professional baseball to Arlington.”
Here
we go.
Sam shrugged. “I don’t really follow baseball these days.”
“That’s
a shame. Sam used to play for the …” she looked from Wes back to
Sam, “The Cubs, right?”
Sam
nodded once and added, “Never made it out of the minors.” Why
sugarcoat it? Chasing “the bigs” in a rusty bus, believing he was
the next big thing, caused him to miss out on a lot of things. He was
still trying to make up for some of that.
Again
he thought of his mother, and this time the guilt was almost too much
to swallow.
“What
are you doing now?” Rachel asked, surprising him, not because he
expected her to keep tabs on his career, but because she’d never
been the kind to care much about other people—at least that had
been his experience when she’d labeled him “whiny little Sammy”
who was always trying to come between her and Luke.
“I’m
working for my dad,” he said with little genuine interest in
keeping this conversation going.
“Just
like me.”
Except
he wasn’t like her, and he couldn’t leave that assumption hanging
between them. “We’re nothing alike, Rachel. For starters, I would
never even think about cutting down these trees. That would be a
really shitty thing to do.”
She
shrugged. “What can I say, Sammy? Progress can be painful, but in
the end, it’s the best thing for everyone.”
“Because
the best thing for you is the best thing for everyone?” He scoffed.
She hadn’t changed one bit in twenty years. “Try telling that to
the birds.” Sam looked at the wide-eyed man taking this all in
beside her, and nodded curtly. “Nice to meet you.”
But
that was a lie. It would only be nice if the guy drove back to
Pittsburgh without touching a single tree. If one trunk fell … Sam
hated to even think about it. Thank God his nature-loving mother
wasn’t alive to see this.
He
wandered off with Babe beside him and the warbler overhead, craving
the usual Sunday peace and quiet, but he kept hearing phantom
chainsaws and wood chippers. How much parking did the Reeds need?
Surely they wouldn’t cut down all of this. He reached out and let
almond-shaped leaves tickle his palm. But what if they did? What if
he had to say goodbye to Sunday walks and evening fireside chats with
his dad? And what if he had to look out his kitchen window and see a
baseball stadium every damn day. He stopped. Babe stopped, too.
That
was not
going to happen.
Author
Bio:
Elley
Arden is
a born and bred Pennsylvanian who has lived as far west as Utah and
as far north as Wisconsin. She drinks wine like it’s water (a
slight exaggeration), prefers a night at the ballpark to a night
on the town, and believes almond English toffee is the key to
happiness.
Elley has
been reading romance novels since she was a sixteen-year-old
babysitter, sneaking Judith McNaught and Danielle Steele novels
off the bookshelves of the women who employed her. To say she’d
been sheltered up to that point is an understatement. No one had ever
told her women could live bold, love freely, and have sex lives that
were exciting and fulfilling. (They don’t teach these things in
Catholic school!) Now that she knows, she’s happy to spread
the word. The women she writes about may be fictional, but the
success, respect, and love they find on the page is a universal right
for women everywhere.
Elley
writes books with charming characters, emotional stories, and sexy
romance. Visit The
Bookshelf for
a detailed listing.
You
can also visit her online at the following places: Website
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