Beauty & the Ballplayer
Arlene Hittle
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Humor
Publisher: Turquoise Morning
Press
Publication Date: March 2014
SYNOPSIS:
Spunky, independent
graphic designer Meg Malone finds herself pregnant soon after her no-good boyfriend
abandons her for the professional poker circuit. Glad to be out of that mess,
she swears off relationships. Then she meets Matt Thatcher, a solid,
stable man, who throws her plans a curve.
Matt, an
up-and-coming minor league catcher burned one too many times by women who
see him as their ticket to the good life, carefully guards his heart
against “baseball babes.” He’s drawn to Meg for many reasons, chief among
them she has no clue what he does for a living.
Will it be game over
when their secrets come to light? Or is their budding relationship
strong enough to win the World Series of love?
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EXCERPT:
She refused to heap blame on
herself. Not this time. Matt was the one in the doghouse here. So why was she
standing in a supply closet, smiling at the man she’d until now believed to be
an engineer? She wiped away her smile and drew herself to her full height,
hoping she looked at least a little menacing. “You lied to me.”
Success! He took a step backward,
letting out an “oof” as a shelf met his back. “Not exactly.”
“What do you mean, ‘Not exactly’?”
Matt reached out to lay a hand on
her arm, but she swatted him away. He sighed and sank against the shelf again.
But he didn’t need physical contact to pin her to the spot. His intense
golden-brown gaze held her fast. “Think back to the night we met. I never said
anything about what I did for a living. And if you’ll recall, last night it was
Greg who introduced himself as an engineer. Not me.”
Meg looked away, seeking escape. Not
yet ready to acknowledge that truth, she dismissed it with an impatient wave.
“So you lied by omission. That’s still dishonesty at its finest, Mr. Big Shot
Ballplayer.”
“I never said I was an engineer.” He
aimed a finger at her. “You’re just upset because you leapt to the wrong
conclusion.”
“If it quacks like a duck—”
His face contorted. “I didn’t
quack!”
“Yeah, you did. Maybe not out loud,
but by letting your friends say they were engineers, you knew I’d assume you
were, too.”
“You know what happens when you
assume.”
AUTHOR INFO:
Arlene Hittle is a Midwestern transplant
who now makes her home in northern Arizona. She suffers from the
well-documented Hittle family curse of being a Cubs fan but will root for the
Diamondbacks until they run up against the Cubs. Longtime friends are amazed
she writes books with sports in them, since she’s about as coordinated as a
newborn giraffe and used to say marching band required more exertion than golf.
Find her at arlenehittle.com, on Twitter or on Facebook.
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ReplyDelete-Alex Rosa
www.wanderlustbooktours.com
Cute cover and great premise. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
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