GETTING WOUND UP
A Sapphire Falls/Love Between the Bases Crossover Novel
Jennifer Bernard & Erin Nicholas
Releasing April 12th, 2016
(Previously Released in Three Parts)
EN Fiction, Inc.
So when her brother hatches a plan to get Eli to the pro baseball try-out for the Kilby Catfish and another chance at his dream, Caitlyn is all in. After all, what's a little kidnapping among friends?
A spot on the pitcher's mound for the Catfish isn't the only tempting thing about the spontaneous road trip. Eli already knows that Caitlyn is as sweet as the candies she makes for the Sapphire Falls bakery, but alone with her overnight in the tiny motel room in Kansas, it's impossible to resist the urge to take a little taste.
But when that taste leads to falling for the girl next door just as his front door is moving hundreds of miles away, can Eli really have it all? Or do they have too many strikes against them?
Caitlyn felt her stool
being swiveled. She came face-to-face with Eli.
“Eli, what—”
He cupped the back of her
head and covered her mouth with his.
It didn’t last long. At
least, it didn’t last long enough, in
her opinion. But it was … amazing. Yes, that was definitely the word for the
day.
“Did you really memorize
each of my tryout pitches?” he asked, resting his forehead against hers.
She nodded, unable to
speak. Because she’d also memorized the feel of his lips against hers. And she
wanted to keep reliving it.
“Thank you,” he said quietly.
“For memorizing them?”
she managed to ask.
“For caring.”
She melted a little at
that. “I can’t help it.”
She immediately bit her
lip. Crap. She had to stop with the slips. On this one she could blame her
kiss-muddled brain, but …
Hey, he’d kissed her.
“You kissed me,” she said
softly, pulling back just enough to look up at him.
“I did.”
She couldn’t help but let
her gaze drop to his mouth.
“And I want to do it
again.”
Her eyes flew back to
his.
“There is really
something sexy about you knowing all about pitching and every detail of my
tryout and believing in me so adamantly.”
Oh boy, she really wanted
to kiss him again. Or have him kiss her. However, whatever, it took to get his mouth on hers.
“Then I overheard you
talking to Bryan. You really do think I’m amazing. You aren’t just saying that
to me.”
“I’ve always thought you
were amazing,” she said.
He pulled her close and
lowered his head. “Yeah, the wanting to kiss you isn’t new either.”
And then he was.
It was so much more than
the spontaneous good-luck kiss. It was even more than the one just a minute
ago. This one was much more … intentional.
His lips moved over hers
slowly, deliberately, as if he was savoring her. After only a few seconds she
was clinging to him, his shirt fisted in her hands, her back arching as she
tried to get closer.
Caitlyn felt his hand
move to the back of her neck, holding her in place as he tasted her, his tongue
sliding along her lower lip and then in against her tongue when she sighed.
When he finally lifted
his head, she swore that she could still feel his tongue on hers. And in a few
other places it hadn’t actually been.
“Whoa,” she breathed out.
He nodded. “Yeah.”
“We should … ”
“Stop.”
“Do that again.”
They spoke at the same
time and stopped at the same time.
He let go of her and
stepped back.
“You think we should
stop,” she said, trying not to show just how disappointed she was.
“You think we should keep
going?” He looked a little stunned at that.
“I think I need another
shot.” She raised her hand and signaled the waitress.
She was definitely going
to need another, because she’d just made a life-altering decision. Do or die.
All or nothing. Play hard or go home.
Gulp.
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Jennifer Bernard is a graduate of Harvard and a former news promo producer. The child of academics, she confounded her family by preferring romance novels to … well, any other books. She left big city life for true love in Alaska, where she now lives with her husband and stepdaughters. She’s no stranger to book success, as she also writes erotic novellas under a naughty secret name not to be mentioned at family gatherings.
Erin Nicholas is the author of sexy contemporary romances. Her stories have been described as toe-curling, enchanting, steamy and fun. She loves to write about reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines and happily ever afters. She lives in the Midwest with her husband who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books, her kids who will never read the sex scenes in her books, and family and friends who say they’re shocked by the sex scenes in her books (yeah, right!).
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