Today I’ve got a teaser and short excerpt for you from WINNING SEASON, #2 of the Marauders Baseball Romance. WINNING SEASON is a spicy second-chance-at-love story about a baseball player nearing the end of his career and the wife he sacrificed for his dream of winning the World Series. I love second-chance-at-love stories and baseball, which is why I decided to write the Marauders baseball books. If you love sports romances with some heat, this might be the book for you! WINNING SEASON is free on Kindle Unlimited at https://amzn.to/4cAYQa0. It’s also available as part of the MARAUDERS BASEBALL ROMANCE box set in Kindle Unlimited at https://amzn.to/4bJs3O3.
Teaser
Eric Mendoza knew that he’d blown it years earlier when he let his desire to play baseball drive a wedge into his marriage to Yvonne Lopez. But when Fate throws Eric and Yvonne together again, Eric’s career is almost over while Yvonne’s dream of a basketball career is only just beginning. Will Eric and Yvonne learn to balance life and their careers to find happiness or will their push for success doom their love once again?
Excerpt
They had been attracted to each other from the moment they had first met. Yvonne had been too young, just eighteen and on her way to college.
He had been twenty-four and a hotshot Rookie of the Year who had been invited back to speak at his old high school’s annual sports award dinner. After giving his speech, he had presented the trophies to the top male and female athletes, never expecting to be immediately intrigued by the attractive young girl who had won.
Yvonne had excelled at a number of sports, but her prowess at basketball had earned her multiple awards as well as a full scholarship to college. As impressive as that was on paper, it hadn’t been nearly as inspiring as the sight of her and the calm, elegant poise she exhibited as she came up to accept the honor.
Eric had stepped behind her and admired the sleek lines of her strong body. The very feminine voice that wrapped itself around him and drew him in as she gave her acceptance speech.
After the dinner, people mingled in the school gym, and flocked around the various recipients. No one had to tell him where Yvonne was. She’d had the largest crowd gathered around her, including a number of reporters from the local papers and sports shows.
He’d always scoffed at those scenes in the movies where couples spot each other across a crowded room and everything else around them blurred into nothingness. He’d thought them the whimsical stylings of the cinema . . . until it had happened to him with Yvonne.
In that crowded gym, with dozens of people talking and milling about, she’d looked up and caught his eye and the world had dropped away until it was just the two of them.
Eric had walked up to her, excusing himself as he brushed past her many admirers and the well-wishers waiting to congratulate her. Smiling as he realized she had finished with the reporter interviewing her and taken a step toward him.
“Hola,” she had said and with that one word he knew she was the one meant for him.
