Contemporary Romance
Date Published: 3/10/2014
Synopsis:
Book
Three in the Kemmons Brothers Baseball Series (Can be read as a Stand Alone)
Female professional football quarterback
MJ Rooney has her eye on the prize, a record-breaking, championship season.
Sure, it would be nice to have family support, but she believes in herself, and
she has her teammates. That’s all she needs to win … until a scuffle at a
baseball game sends her over the railing and onto the field with a concussion
that threatens her season.
Dr. Tag Howard isn’t a baseball player like his brothers, but that doesn’t mean he can’t contribute to the game. He’s poised to become Major League Baseball’s go-to sports medicine doctor if he can rehabilitate Gold Glove Centerfielder Grey Kemmons, who happens to be his estranged brother. It’s a lot to take … until an unorthodox angel crashes into his life with a concussion and a fresh perspective.
MJ doesn’t need a man. She needs a championship ring. Getting messed up with a sexy, doctor and his family baggage isn’t going to get her there. But the attraction is undeniable, and there’s surprising freedom from expectations in each other’s arms … until Tag’s brothers want a reunion that requires him to own up to his ugly past, and MJ’s season teeters amidst the distractions. Would life apart be easier?
Dr. Tag Howard isn’t a baseball player like his brothers, but that doesn’t mean he can’t contribute to the game. He’s poised to become Major League Baseball’s go-to sports medicine doctor if he can rehabilitate Gold Glove Centerfielder Grey Kemmons, who happens to be his estranged brother. It’s a lot to take … until an unorthodox angel crashes into his life with a concussion and a fresh perspective.
MJ doesn’t need a man. She needs a championship ring. Getting messed up with a sexy, doctor and his family baggage isn’t going to get her there. But the attraction is undeniable, and there’s surprising freedom from expectations in each other’s arms … until Tag’s brothers want a reunion that requires him to own up to his ugly past, and MJ’s season teeters amidst the distractions. Would life apart be easier?
Excerpt
M.J. watched as people passed the open
door to her exam room. Some looked in and smiled, but she couldn’t manage to
muster the strength to smile back. In fact, she was just about to get up and
close the door when a handsome man in a white coat passed. They made eye
contact for a brief second before he disappeared in the same direction the
nurse had.
But then he was back.
“You,” he said, smiling.
It was a wonderful smile, bright and
white, balling his cheeks and squinting his eyes, defining his chin with a sexy
v-shaped crease.
“Me?” M. J. questioned.
He stepped into the room, wearing the
same smile along with a pale blue dress shirt and crisply pressed gray pants
visible from the split in his white coat. “You don’t remember me, do you?”
“No.” One word was a better bet than
letting her incredulity slip out amid a full sentence. If she’d met a man like
that before, she’d certainly never forget him.
“You’re Miss Rooney, aren’t you? I
examined you on the field after you fell.”
M. J.’s jaw dropped. “Oh,” she managed,
despite the embarrassment heating her face. If she didn’t remember him, God
only knew what she’d done or said during their exchange. She wasn’t exactly
mealy-mouthed.
“How are you feeling?” He tilted his
head and rolled his gaze over her, a hint of that smile lingering in his
beautiful hazel eyes.
Physically? “Better.” Mentally? Like a
fool, because she was trying to place him, but nothing that happened after she
toppled over the railing and before Felicia arrived at the hospital made sense.
And now she was gawking at this crazy-attractive man.
“How’d you end up at Fellows’ clinic?”
“Dr. Ridge.” She matched the tilt of his
head with her head. “He’s my team physician.”
Dr. Sexy’s eyes widened. “Which team?”
“Clash,” she said without hesitation,
maybe even a little too fiercely. She’d just been laughed at too many times to
count.
When he chuckled, she wanted to slap
him, but he looked so damn good doing it.
“Now it makes sense,” he said. “You told
me you belonged on the field when I asked how you got there, and then you asked
if you’d been sacked.”
He wasn’t laughing at the fact she
played football? Interesting.
“Knock, knock.” Dr. Ridge stood in the
doorway. “Go find your own patients,” he directed at Dr. Sexy. “Better yet, go
get some pizza before I finish it off.”
Dr. Sexy smiled again as he nodded,
exuding a nonchalance that had M. J.’s muscles bunching, bracing against the
attraction.
“Miss Rooney,” he said. “It was nice to
see you again.”
It was, wasn’t it? Even if she didn’t
remember seeing him the first time.
Elley Arden
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 writes provocative, emotional, contemporary romances, where Mr. Not-My-Type ends up being Mr. Right.
Elley writes provocative, emotional, contemporary romances, where Mr. Not-My-Type ends up being Mr. Right.
Website: www.elleyarden.com
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