Her Best
Shot, Her Perfect Game and Her Winning Formula
By: Shannyn Schroeder
Releasing In Print Dec 15th
Exclusively with Books-a-Million
Blurbs
With college graduation
looming, three childhood friends vow to make spring break their last blast of
pure fun. But at least one of them didn’t count on such incredible heat…
Layla Sharpe is definitely more math ninja
than bikini babe, and her future has been calculated with razor precision.
Convinced to let loose over spring break, Layla is finally ready to party—until
her car breaks down halfway to her destination, leaving her stranded in Georgia
with a mouthwateringly hot pool shark. She knows more than enough about angles
to learn the game, but this week she wants him to appreciate her curves…
Phin Marks has never met a girl like Layla.
She’s more Star Wars geek than seductress, and when he offers her a place to
stay while her car is in the shop, he’s counting on the attraction between them
to set the nights ablaze, no strings attached. But every moment he spends with
Layla makes it harder to let her go. Can he persuade her to gamble in the most
dangerous way possible…on forever?
Her
Perfect Game
Charlie Castle is
an expert archer and a fierce warrior—in her favorite video game, anyway. But
college life was a program she couldn’t quite master. To land a cybertech job
without a degree, she’s entering a “hackfest” over spring break—where she also
hopes to meet the sweet gamer who’s been flirting with her online. Instead, she
runs into the hot guy who walked away years ago, and can’t fight the desire
that comes rushing back.
Jonah Best has
never gotten over Charlie, whose kisses were always as deliciously creative as
her coding. But now that they’re face to face again, he doesn’t know how to
admit that her online admirer is really him—or how to convince her that he’s
offering her a job for her incredible skills, not her sex appeal. Can Jonah cut
through their communication glitches and persuade Charlie that the next level
up for them should be forever?
Her
Winning Formula
Chemistry major Felicity Stone can tell you
everything about the way chemicals interact, but when it comes to social
interaction, she needs schooling. Abandoned by her friends, Felicity is faced
with spending spring break alone—unless she accepts a gorgeous stranger’s
invitation to pose as his girlfriend at a family wedding. Not one to turn down
a research opportunity, Felicity never expected it to produce such breathtaking
results…
Teacher and
baseball coach Lucas Tanner is fascinated by Felicity’s potent mix of spirit
and scientist, not to mention her delicious curves. When Felicity asks him to return
the favor by teaching her how to pick up guys, he can’t refuse—but he’s not at
all happy with the idea of her using a formula for flirting on anyone but him.
Can he convince her that together they have the perfect chemistry?
Her Winning Formula Excerpt
The movie was
filled with killing and explosions, but couldn’t hold his concentration. The
mousy girl in the bed beside him kept grabbing his attention. And she wasn’t
doing anything but reading silently. She didn’t even move her lips when she
read, but her facial expressions changed. Her eyes would narrow or her forehead
crinkled. Sometimes a sly smile snuck up on her. He didn’t know how he knew,
but it was like it surprised her when it happened.
He couldn’t
remember the last time he read anything for school that had him feeling any
kind of emotion, much less what she was experiencing. He paused the movie.
“What are you reading?”
She didn’t look up
from the book, but answered, “Research.”
He tossed the
remote on his bed and jumped onto her bed, jostling her in the process. “Come
on. Research isn’t that fascinating. What are you really reading?”
Annoyance crossed
her face with his intrusion. “It is research. I enjoy research.”
“Let me see.” He
held out his hand for the reader.
“No.” She hugged it
tight to her chest.
Now he had to know
what it was. No one guarded research material. He crawled over to her, and she
scooted farther back until she hit the headboard. “Let me see.”
“No. Now go away
and watch your movie.”
“This is more
interesting than the movie.” He eyed the way she held it to figure out the best
way to snatch the device.
She turned to get
out of bed, presumably to get away from him, giving him his opening to grab the
reader. He moved fast, and she stood looking in disbelief. Her mouth hung open
and fear entered her eyes, but she covered it quickly with anger as she crossed
her arms.
He hadn’t yet
looked down at the screen. “I’m just playing. If you really don’t want me to
see this, I’ll stop.”
“Whatever. Do what
you want.” She knelt on the bed and then sat, pulling her knees up to her
chest. She bit her thumbnail.
He glanced down at
the screen and began reading. He smiled. Felicity was reading a naughty book.
“You’re reading porn?”
“It’s not porn.
It’s erotica or erotic romance.”
“Chick porn.”
“You’re such a
guy.” She grabbed her reader back and turned away from him.
“Why did you call
it research? Why not say you’re reading a novel?”
“I am doing
research.”
“Sex research?”
She looked over her
shoulder and rolled her eyes.
“You don’t know…I
mean….”
“Shut up, Lucas. I
know how sex works. I’ve even had sex.”
“Then why
research?”
She huffed and put
the reader down on the bed. “These books aren’t just about the sex. They’re
about human interaction, relationships. How people relate to each other and
learn to understand each other.”
“That’s just part
of life.”
“For people like
you it is, not for me.”
“For people like
me?”
“I’ve known you for
less than a day, but I can tell that everyone likes you. You’re open and
friendly, and you understand what people mean and what they need. I don’t. I
don’t get any of that. I read these books because I get a picture of what
normal people think when they see someone, how they interpret someone’s words
or actions.”
He stared at her.
He didn’t know what to say. During the course of speaking, she opened up. Her
body language relaxed, and she was in the moment, not worrying about anything.
She was honest and vulnerable. It was pretty fucking sexy. He lay down and
rested on his elbow. “Does it turn you on?”
She rolled her eyes
again. “Such a guy.”
She turned over on
her stomach and went back to reading. He mimicked her pose and bumped his
shoulder into hers. “You didn’t answer the question.”
“Sometimes,” she
whispered.
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ngling her three kids or writing, she watches a ton of TV and loves to bake cookies.
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