Game On by Collette Weston October 17th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Sports
Format: eARC
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Pitching phenom Bruce "Jilly" Gillette has a hard time talking to women. His hulking presence of tattoos and muscles is what makes him an intimidating closer on the mound, yet off the field, he's painfully shy, uncomfortable in his own skin.
Desperate to revamp his loner image, the New York Kings hold a dream date contest, granting the lucky winner a night on the town with their surly reliever, doing whatever it takes to force Jilly out of his comfort zone.
Hailey Halpert enters the contest on a whim, looking for answers as to why her high school relationship with Jilly hit the skids. Now she’s a popular romance author writing under a pen name, and her reappearance in Jilly's life is no accident. It turns out that her novels are all about the sexy players on the Kings, and Jilly has no clue that he's about to become her new leading man.
{REVIEW}
GAME ON by Collette West led a divine sweet romance into the hearts of reader’s homes. Jilly; the pitcher for the New York Kings and Hailey an astonishing romance writer, had a connection from the bounds of high school and after a lengthy distance of space, two connecting hearts explore a whole world.
“She has me in her web, a prisoner to the story that’s unfurling before my tired, bloodshot eyes. What she’s stirring inside me through nothing but a screen is profound.”
The story brought heart into a sweet but coiling emotional story as Jilly learns Hailey’s hidden secrets & Hailey learns Jilly’s feelings run deeper than the string that has put them heart to heart even if they weren’t together. The narrative of the baseball player & writer took so much emotion with injury; sacrifice; faith and love all bidding a courtship of heart in the breathtaking story.
The loving sonnet that Collette created between Jilly & Hailey brought a lot of character and sweet love into the story and I loved how secondary characters were an influence into the heart of the story. It was just the read I needed, just at a time when life was getting hectic, to escape into GAME ON was exquisite and falling for Jilly, was a sure in.
The charisma of following your heart, and finding a love so deep, was what drew me into reading and kept me reading from beginning to end. A stunning novel with emotions beating-like-a-disco-party to my heart, which will bring out a book hangover for sports romance lovers, for sure. Adored the sweet story and can’t wait to read more from the author.
{EXCERPT}
A clap of thunder echoes above us and the heavens open up, pummeling us with rain, but he doesn’t stop. He keeps kissing me hard and fast. We quickly become drenched as he brushes my sopping-wet hair away from my neck. I feel droplets of rain fall off his face onto mine, but it only seems to intensify the way he’s kissing me. His tongue opens my mouth, and he eagerly explores every inch of it. I never imagined that he’d be so good at this. I whimper again, and he wraps his good hand around my waist, lifting me up against the building, pressing himself against me.
I don’t even know what I’m doing as I open my legs to him. He lowers his hand, finding the back of my knee and hooking one leg around him, and I follow suit with the other, our wet clothes weighing heavily on our overheated skin. This time, his hands aren’t staying in those designated ‘safe’ areas like they did that night on the couch, and it’s almost too much to handle.
The only thought in my head is that I need to get him alone and continue this somewhere where I can have him all to myself.
I throw my head back, freeing my lips from his, needing to breathe.
He chuckles softly. “Was that what you wanted?”
“Uh huh,” I somehow manage to respond. “Even better than chocolate.”
He smiles, shifting my body in his arms until he’s cradling me against his chest. “What do you say we get outta here?” he asks, reading my mind.
I nod, and he smiles again, teasing my lips with his while walking slowly toward the street. He raises his hand to hail a cab, and I slide my arms around his neck, pulling him closer. He starts kissing me deeply as the rain hits us full on. I can feel his heartbeat pounding through his wet T-shirt that’s now clinging to his hard, muscular body, and I sigh, knowing this has to be, hands down, the sexiest moment of my life.
{About Collette West}
Collette West grew up as somewhat of a jock-nerd hybrid. Entering the world three weeks premature, her dad nearly missed her birth because he had seats behind the dugout for a sold-out, highly-anticipated match-up between two of baseball’s biggest rivals. Not to be outdone, her book-loving mom taught her how to read by the time she was three. A love of the game coupled with an appreciation for the written word were instilled in Collette’s impressionable brain from a young age. No wonder her characters believe in the philosophy: sports + romance = a little slice of heaven.
Splitting her time between the Pocono Mountains and Manhattan, Collette indulges her inner fangirl by going to as many games as she can from hockey to baseball and downloading every sports romance novel in existence onto her iPad. When she’s not clicking away on her laptop, she enjoys walking her dog in Central Park, satisfying her caffeine craving at the Starbucks on Broadway and keeping an eye out for Mr. Right. But above all, she loves dishing with her readers. Email her at [email protected].
She is the author of NIGHT GAMES and GAME CHANGER.
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