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By: Lori Wilde
Releasing
April 26, 2016
Avon
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BOOK SUMMARY
A sexy sports superstar discovers his body isn’t the
only thing that needs healing in this newest Stardust, Texas novel from New
York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde…
With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an injured shoulder and his career on the line, Axel is stuck recuperating at a ranch in Stardust, Texas . . . striking out only with his gorgeous physical therapist.
Kasha Carlyle has one week to get Axel back in action or she can kiss her much-needed job with the Gunslingers goodbye. And any chance to seek custody of the orphaned half-sister she never knew existed. She quickly learns that Axel’s guarded heart also needs healing . . . requiring all kinds of sneaky plays and sexy moves in extra innings.
With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an injured shoulder and his career on the line, Axel is stuck recuperating at a ranch in Stardust, Texas . . . striking out only with his gorgeous physical therapist.
Kasha Carlyle has one week to get Axel back in action or she can kiss her much-needed job with the Gunslingers goodbye. And any chance to seek custody of the orphaned half-sister she never knew existed. She quickly learns that Axel’s guarded heart also needs healing . . . requiring all kinds of sneaky plays and sexy moves in extra innings.
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EXCERPT
It starts like this: an unexpected
spark, instant attraction, the jolting jab of oh-so-you-feel-this-too? Flash
fire in the belly. A corkscrew twist in the center of the chest. A physical
ache that punches low and heavy and spreads out hard and fast through muscles
and tendons, blood and bone.
Heady.
Erotic.
Thrilling.
Physical
therapist Kasha Carlyle had felt it before, this hot flare,
runaway-mine-train-express that stirred fear in the dark recesses of her mind.
She’d resisted it then. Resisted it now.
But
this? This here? This was something
more.
Stronger.
Bolder.
Scarier.
Coal
black eyes melted her resistance, seared it to ash. In that stopwatch moment
when her gaze struck, and stuck to the steely stare of the Dallas Gunslingers’
most valuable pitcher, Axel Richmond.
He’d
just completed a physical therapy session with his trainer, Paul Hernandez, and
he was sitting on a bench wearing nothing but red workout pants, his bare chest
on display. Every glistening muscle was finely etched. Not a drop of fat on
him. He was a splendid specimen of adult male in top physical shape, life and
passion oozing from his pores.
The
only thing that seemed out of place was the black tattoo over his heart that
spelled out
“Dylan.”
One
look and everything and everyone blended and blurred as white-hot need
transported them into their own little world far from the sports medicine
facility in North Dallas, where baseball coaches, managers, administrators, and
sports medicine specialists surrounded them.
For
a split second.
Then
pure panic set it.
It
was Tuesday, May seventeenth, and the second week of Kasha’s three-month
probationary period at her new job working with injured major league baseball
players.
And
she was already falling in lust.
No.
No. This simply would not do. Keeping her job was essential.
Now
that she had Emma to consider, she urgently needed the bump in salary to pay
off the student loans that had gotten her through her PhD. Not to mention the
excellent health insurance coverage. Finding out about Emma had changed
everything.
Quickly,
Kasha peeled her gaze from Axel’s and studied the insignia on the wall above
his head—the blue and green Gunslingers crossed dueling pistols logo—but she
didn’t see a darn thing. Purposefully, she slowed her breathing, and forced
herself to listen to the conversation.
“I
wish we had better news,” Dr. Tad Harrison, the lead physician on the team,
said to Axel.
Dr.
Harrison had been the one to hire Kasha, and the one to caution her that only
thirty percent of probationary employees made it past the first three months.
“It takes a special breed to work with these ballplayers. They’re long on
arrogance and stubbornness and always think they know best.”
“I
have a lot of patience,” she’d said because it was true.
“I
heard they call you the Exorcist in your current job,” Dr. Harrison had said.
“Why is that?”
She
couldn’t keep from smiling. “My colleagues say I have a talent for taming
difficult clients.”
“And
do you?”
“I
consider physical therapy a calling.” She folded her hands in her lap, and said
without a hint of ego. “I was born for this work.”
Dr.
Harrison stroked his chin. “That’s what Rowdy said too.”
Rowdy Blanton was the field manager
for the Gunslingers. He was also Kasha’s brother-in-law, married to her younger
adoptive sister, Breeanne, and he’d recommended her for the job.
“If
I hire you,” Dr. Harrison had continued. “It will be on your own merits, not
your relationship to Rowdy. He got you this interview, but that’s as far as
nepotism goes.”
“As
it should.” Kasha bobbed her head.
The
uncertainty of the job was why she hadn’t yet rented an apartment in Dallas.
Every day, she made the one hundred and thirty-five mile, one-way trek to the
stadium from her hometown of Stardust.
While
she was optimistic, she was also practical. She’d learned that fate could
derail even the best intentions and you had to be ready to flow whichever way
the current took you. For the next three months, until she solidified the job,
she would keep making that drive.
For
Emma.
Her
thoughts took off in a hundred different directions at once. Stalled. Spun.
Gathered momentum like an encroaching hurricane. Realizing her mind had
wandered, she forcefully shut down the unproductive thoughts and directed her
attention back to the patient.
Axel
Richmond.
One
more look and Kasha was on fire and she hated it. The last thing she wanted
right now was to meet a guy, especially this guy. Whose stark dark hair was
drenched in the heady sheen of sweat.
He
was as sexy as ten kinds of sin, and twice as handsome, and he was studying her
through heavily lidded eyes as if she was the most fascinating creature he’d
seen in years.
Um
. . . yes . . . that’s why her mind had wandered. To keep from dealing with the
feelings his hot-to-trot gaze churned inside her.
She
let out such a long sigh that everyone in the room swiveled to stare. She kept
her face blank and examined her fingernails, pretending she’d discovered a
ragged cuticle.
From
the moment Axel had strolled into the therapy room with his pro-athlete swagger
and princely sense of entitlement, she’d been mesmerized.
Spellbound
by the way his fitted T-shirt hugged his intricately muscled body. Then he’d
stripped off the shirt, giving her an even more arresting view. A thick head of
lush brown hair curled around his ears, and those powerful thighs strained at
the seams of his workout pants.
Whew.
CAT'S REVIEW
"Love of the Game" by Lori Wilde is the third installment of her series, Stardust, Texas, which is telling the tales of four sisters. In this one, we have Kasha's story. Kasha is a physical therapist and yoga enthusiast that has just signed on to help Axel, a baseball player recovering from a shoulder injury. Axel, of course, is sexy, strong and handsome. But even those uber-sexy guys can have a world of heart behind their hearts and Axel is no exception. Kasha, having had a bit of trauma in her young life, is closed off and refuses to give in to passion. I really adored Axel - despite his heartache, he is trying hard to make his dreams come true, hoping to ease his hurting heart. I felt for him and was proud of his determination, even if he sometimes would go against Kasha's advice. I did have a harder time liking Kasha. Yes, I get she had a rough childhood but her stubborness was a bit much for me. I hurt for her because she was so closed off to love and happiness. Her journey with Emma, her sister, was heartwarming. I liked the journey Ms. Wilde took those two on and the outcome as well. Together, Axel and Kasha are fire - explosive even. When they both gave in, it was a beautiful thing to watch. It was a bit painful, though, when the walls were up and the chemistry and love were being fought. Ms. Wilde brings in a touch of whimsy to this series as well, in the form of the Hope chest and it's contents. That was fun in all the books and who wouldn't like something that shows true love? This is book three of the series. I adored the first two books but this one fell a little short for me - still enjoyable, just a bit harder for me to get into than Breeanne and Jodi's stories. I am looking forward to Suki's tale- I wonder what will be in her hope chest drawer? (Received copy from Edelweiss for honest review)
★★★★
AUTHOR INFO
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lori
Wilde has sold seventy-eight works of fiction to four major New York Publishing
houses.
Her first NYT bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.
A popular writing instructor, Lori is a two time RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. She's won the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Golden Quill, the Lories, and The More than Magic.
Her first NYT bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.
A popular writing instructor, Lori is a two time RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. She's won the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Golden Quill, the Lories, and The More than Magic.
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