She
writes plays while her brother's best friend brings the drama in this
spicy New Adult read Harlequin Junkie says is perfect for “anyone
looking for a unique story line, some smouldering sex, and two people
not necessary looking for their happily ever after, but they might
find it anyway!”
Title:
Fair Play
Author:
Tracy A. Ward
Genre:
New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release
Date:
March 28, 2016
Publisher:
Self-published
Format:
eBook
ISBN:
9780997282702
Who
knew love could bring a playwright so much drama?
Writing
three plays for a nationally acclaimed theater in Phair, Texas, was
never supposed to put Ashlyn Carter’s inheritance at risk or make
or break her future. And it certainly wasn’t supposed to force her
into constant contact with the very guy she’s avoided since her
teenage crush-gone-bad days.
Noah
Blake. He's Ashlyn’s enemy, for good reason. As her older brother's
best friend, he seems hell-bent on interfering with nearly every
aspect of her life. So how then does he also seem to be her muse?
When
Ashlyn reluctantly agrees to act out scenes with Noah from the play
she’s writing in order to trigger her creativity, the spark of
passion she’d felt for him as a teenager flares up again. But
there’s more at stake than just her future as a playwright or the
inheritance she never cared about in the first place. Finding out the
theater she loves is in danger of closing puts everything she thought
she knew and felt about Phair…and Noah...to the test. Will there be
a standing ovation for Ashlyn Carter, playwright, or will the curtain
drop and fade to black? Only by facing their biggest fears together
will Ashlyn and Noah learn to trust in themselves and each other.
Here’s
the set-up. Lucas Marshall, owner of The Marshall Theater, has just
given Ashlyn an ultimatum—work with Noah, her big brother’s best
friend and Ashlyn’s sworn enemy, to overcome her writer’s block
that’s appeared at a very inopportune time (threatening her
inheritance, career, and the fate of the theater itself). Noah, too,
has a stake in the game. The town of Phair was founded around The
Marshall. If it fails, so too will his bar. Equally important, Noah
has just discovered another threat—a theater critic set on revenge
against Ashlyn for a past transgression. But if there’s one thing
you can count on Noah Blake to do, it’s protect what he considers
his, no matter the cost. In this scene, from Noah’s point of view,
he appears at Ashlyn’s door, attempting to convince her that
Lucas’s plan to overcome her writer’s block and save the theater
is valid.
Excerpt
from Fair Play:
The
door opened. She stood, blinking at me. Then, without saying a word,
she pulled ear buds from her ears and placed them, along with her
iPod, on the table beside the door. Her arms dropped. “I don’t
have time for this, Noah.”
Stepping
through the threshold, I reached for her wrist and snapped on the
cuffs, an abandoned favor from last week’s bachelorette party at
the Double Shot.
Her
blue eyes widened, then she forced a controlled facade. She raised
our conjoined wrists. “So you’re into kink. But I don’t think
that’s the way this is supposed to work. Obviously, you need
pointers.” She scanned the small, spartan room, consisting of a
loveseat, coffee table, and a fake ficus tree. “I might have a
fifty-shades-of-something book you could borrow.”
With
my cuffed hand, I reached behind me and closed the door, jerking
Ashlyn’s body against mine in the process.
Mistake.
My
cock instantly hardened. All I could think about was how she smelled,
like moonlight and summer. How her white tank clung to her torso,
contoured over bare breasts to the point where I swore I could just
make out the vaguest tinge of rose-colored nipples. How she turned me
on without even trying, like no one ever had.
As
my cuffed hand found hers and I finagled her arm so that it bent
comfortably behind her back, wispy strands of auburn hair, twisted
into an awkward bun at the side of her neck, tickled my face. Her
pulse beneath my fingertips jumped. I inhaled her sweet scent as my
heart rate went into overdrive along with hers. A primitive ache with
the need to fill her settled in my bones.
But
a man did not touch his best friend’s little sister. Quinn had
asked me years ago to look out for her, and as we’d pledged in our
fraternity as freshman, a promise once made is never broken.
“The
cuffs are to prove a point,” I said. In spite of the warning going
off in my head, my lips grazed her temple when my opposite arm
circled her waist.
Ashlyn
rose on toes, bringing us hip-to-hip so my erection was closer to
where God intended, like she was testing how well we’d fit. Her
eyes darkened a shade and I could tell she knew exactly what she was
doing. Having her against me like this was bending the rules.
Bending, I reminded myself, wasn’t breaking. She also had that
weird look—the one that told me she understood what I was thinking
before I did.
It
was also the look she got before she became the world’s biggest
smartass.
“So,”
she drawled out. “Not into kink. But it appears after all these
years, I’ve been wrong about you. You’re not a eunuch, after
all.”
“Not
even close, sweetheart.” My free hand covered her ass. My
fingertips found bare skin beneath the curve of her shorts, and
despite her bravado, she twitched.
About
time she figured out who was in charge.
After
the birth of her children, Tracy had an epiphany: banking just wasn’t
her thing. So she quit her corporate job, let her nanny go and became
a not-so-desperate housewife by day, Sexy Women’s Fiction author by
night. Her characters are every-day women, following their dreams,
searching for that elusive happily ever after.
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