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The Change Up
Arlington Aces #1
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
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.
She thought about that for a minute, thought about him, standing
there, looking at her like she was the only woman in the world, and the heat
was undeniable. The attraction unmistakable. Sam Sutter was a mouth-wateringly
beautiful man. Five years younger and without a discernible life plan, but damn
it, libidos didn’t care about those things. And honestly, the only thing
holding her back from taking out all her recent frustrations on his blessed
body right now was the fact his crew was just outside the leftfield wall.
To neutralize the lust bubbling in her veins, she asked, “Do you
miss baseball?”
He looked broadsided by the random question and didn’t rush to
answer.
“I know that came out of left field …” she grinned at her
cleverness, “but I’ve been wondering about it ever since the festival. When my
dad was asking you about baseball, you looked very uncomfortable.”
His gaze shifted away from her and anchored onto something in the
grandstand, but then he shrugged like she hadn’t hit a nerve. “I was
uncomfortable because I was worried about your father. I wasn’t sure what was going
on. That’s all.” But his jaw pulsed, and she knew better.
“Sam …” She stepped closer, narrowing the space between them. “I
saw that same look a minute ago when I asked you to help me out with the
coaching prospects. You miss baseball. It’s okay to admit it. If you didn’t,
you wouldn’t be human. God, you played every year of your life until you were
how old? Just because you were ready to hang it up professionally doesn’t mean
you don’t miss the game personally.” He looked at her then with a hurt in his
eyes that seemed to be saying maybe he wasn’t as ready to hang it up as he
pretended to be.
“I miss some things more than others,” he said. “There’s a rush
you get from playing the game.” Silence stretched out between them as the warm
wind wrapped them in the sun-dried fragrances of spring. All the while, his
eyes roamed her face until they focused on her lips. “Fortunately you can get
that rush from other things.”
“Like?” she asked, breathlessly, knowing damned well she was
encouraging him.
“This,” he whispered before he leaned in and
kissed her, a brush of his lips, soft as the breeze that carried the heated
scent of his skin to her nose and then to her brain.
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.
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