Rules of the game:
1) Never underestimate your opponent
2) Avoid personal fouls
3) Score early and often
4) Play or get played
Coach Marcus Leon has always played by the rules…until he meets Addaline Grace, the seventeen-year-old senior transfer on his Oak Crest High water polo team. Addie changes all the rules, mostly because she doesn’t play any games. But as off limits as she is, the more Marcus discovers about Addie, the more he finds himself…and the more he questions whether Addie might just be worth risking everything for.
For Addie, water polo is anger management. She’s driven and focused because it keeps her mind off other things…like the fact she destroyed her family. Her game plan is to keep her head down and graduate so she can leave her father and the crappy town he dragged her to in her wake. But when what starts as friendly completion with Marcus turns into more than a game, Addie has to decide if she’s willing to face down her demons…and possibly ruin the man she may or may not be falling in love with in the process.
What happens when the only thing you need is the one thing you can’t have?
** This is a standalone
EXCERPT
His spicy scent wraps me in a cocoon of bliss and I stop
thinking. I know this because when a shard of coherent thought pierces the
bubble, I find my lips are on his. I don’t even know how they got there. Not
only that, but I have a death grip around his neck. In my shock, the reflex is
to let him go…but then I realize he’s kissing me back. His kiss feels like liquid
fire burning through me. A low moan vibrates between us, and somewhere
in the back of my mind I know it’s mine. The rumble deep in his chest that
answers my moan feeds my hunger for him.
One of his hands grips my arm hard, just below my shoulder.
But it’s the other one that has my attention, sliding slowly down my hip until
it rests on my ass. He drags me over him so I’m straddling his lap as he tilts
his head and deepens our kiss, and the hard bulge in his swim trunks presses
against sensitive spot between my legs. I feel him from the tingle in my scalp
to the curl of my toes. And when he moans into my mouth, the sound vibrates my
bones.
I lose myself in the feeling of his hot, hard body pressed
up the front of mine; his dark scruff scratching my face; his wet, warm tongue
invading my mouth and taking possession of me; the frenetic beat of our hearts,
each matching the other’s.
Time stops. There’s this excruciatingly intense moment where
we exist in a vacuum, just Marcus and me. My senses dull and sharpen at the
same time as the world fades out and everything Marcus is doing to me is
amplified by the electricity flowing between us.
I totally lose myself in the flood of sensations I’ve never
experienced before. When I come to my senses a few seconds later, Marcus has
set me on the cement and is staggering to his feet, his eyes wide and his head
shaking an adamant no. But the bulge in the front of his swim trunks puts the
lie to the denial in is body language.
“I was…that was…” He bumps into the starting block and it
seems to jar him back to his senses. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why I did that.”
I gain my feet. “It’s okay.”
God. I’m a moron. It was so much more than okay.
He must see something in my eyes, because his soften again.
“Addie…” He trails off with a slow shake of his head before taking a deep
breath and starting again. “You are this incredible…” He trails off again and
swallows. “…girl. You’re a girl. I
have to keep reminding myself of that, because every time I look at you I see
this gorgeous, sexy, amazing woman.”
REVIEW
This book wasn't as thrilling as the first in the Jail Bait series, but it was still exciting and filled with emotion. I was really glad when I found out that this was Marcus' story, and the fact that he had to face exactly what Caiden went through in Getting Dirty was like divine intervention. At least he could finally empathize with his new brother-in-law, and no longer see him as the evil that took advantage of his sister.
Addie, like Blaire, was very mature for her age. Having gone through such tragedy, only to have her father completely check out, forced her to fend for herself. I was intrigued by her story and my heart ached for her as she came face to face with all the lies and secrets that surrounded her past.
There was great chemistry between these two characters, although at times Marcus' focus seemed more about sympathizing with her position in life that anything romantic. This could have been his aim, a way to distract him from his growing feelings for her, while still getting to spend time with her, though.
There were a few touch and go moments when I thought Addie and Marcus would be discovered, and with some of the vile characters who were out to destroy Marcus due to their own jealousy, it was only a matter of time before things came to a head. Thankfully it didn't quite end up as badly as it did for Caiden, but it was still an emotional time for all involved. I'm just glad that in the end things worked out as they should.
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Dirty
A poem by Blaire Leon
If sex is dirty, why would I do it with someone I love?
If sex is dirty, then didn’t we all come from the dirt?
What if I like the dirt?
What if I want to get dirty?
What if I want to roll in the mud until I’m so fucking filthy that I’ll never be clean again?
When twenty-five-year-old graduate assistant Caiden Brenner asked Blaire Leon how old she was, she said she was a senior. He chose to believe she meant in college. They connect over Lord Byron’s Don Juan and, as their conversations become increasingly thicker with sexual innuendo, Caiden finds himself obsessing over a totally off-limits undergrad who’s bold, beautiful, brilliant, and one of the most passionate poets he’s ever met.
But it turns out Blaire hasn't been totally honest. She's the seventeen-year-old valedictorian of her high school class, taking courses at Sierra State while awaiting her acceptance to Stanford.
Will Caiden get too deeply into Blaire to back away before he finds out the truth? Or will their connection be enough to seduce him into risking his entire future on Jail Bait?
About the Author
Mia Storm is a hopeless romantic who is always searching for her happy ending. Sometimes she’s forced to make one up. When that happens, she’s thrilled to be able to share those stories with her readers. She lives in California and spends much of her time in the sun with a book in one hand and a mug of black coffee in the other, or hiking the trails in Yosemite. Connect with her online at MiaStormAuthor.blogspot.com , on Twitter at @MiaStormAuthor, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MiaStormAuthor.
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