BookLover Sue: Excerpt & Giveaway - Back In the Game (Stardust, Texas #1) by Lori Wilde

Back In the Game
Stardust, Texas # 1

By: Lori Wilde

Releasing February 24^th, 2015

Avon

Blurb:

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde welcomes you to Stardust, Texas . . . where dreams come true and love is always right around the corner.

Wanted: ghostwriter. Must be female, a baseball fan, and have a great pair of legs.

Ex-pitcher Rowdy Blanton never saw a woman he couldn't conquer or a team he couldn't beat. And now that he's off the field he's ready to tell all about when he played the field. So he chooses Breeanne Carlyle to do the job-she's got the requirements, but more important, there's something about her that makes him want to be a better man.

Convinced there's more to Rowdy than a good fastball, a wicked smile, and a tight pair of pants, Breeanne can't help but be tempted. After all, it's boring always being the good girl, and Rowdy dares her to be just a little bad. The stakes are high, but win or lose, this time Breeanne's breaking all the rules playing the game of love.

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Excerpt:

But stubbornly, against all odds, Breeanne believed in herself. She would make this happen. If it took twenty years, then so be it. In the meantime, her close-knit family had expectations of her. So here she was, going picking.

Smile.

Smiling put the blues on notice. It was her go-to expression for smoothing over everything. No room for bad moods. Never mind that she wasn’t feeling it. Fake it until you make it. She was finally healthy, and had a family who loved her. The writing would eventually take care of itself as long as she kept at it.

On this Sunday morning in May, navy blue night faded into the deep purple of impending dawn. Every expert bargain hunter knew that arriving after first light meant you were already too late for the good stuff.

Breeanne’s oldest sister, Jodi, drove the minivan branded with the name of her business on the back window, Boxcars and Breakfast. Enterprising Jodi bought old boxcars for cheap, and with her mad carpentry skills, converted them into luxurious sleeping accommodations on land that she’d inherited near the state park.

In her role as second oldest, Kasha rode shotgun. Kasha had a PhD, and worked at the VA hospital as a physical therapist.

Breeanne sat in the back with Suki, the baby of the family. Suki ran the Internet side of Timeless Treasures, and had her own jewelry making business on the side.

Normally, their parents would accompany them on their weekly Sunday morning hunt, but their folks were celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary on a romantic getaway to San Antonio.

Bumper to bumper traffic idled up the sweeping driveway leading to the impressive Tudor-style mansion. An attendant, wearing a reflective vest, and waving a light orange signal cone, directed them to an adjacent field.

Marion County’s wealthiest doyenne, Irene Henderson, had died at the age of eighty-five after being thrown from the saddle of her Arabian horse. Breeanne couldn’t help admiring the elderly woman’s fearless spunk. How did anyone get to be that brave?

Jodi parked the van. Armed with tote bags, they all got out.

Kasha paused, and nostrils flaring, tipped her face to the sky still sprinkled with stars. “It’s going to rain.”

“Not according to the weather forecast,” Jodi said, but she unlocked the van, and retrieved two umbrellas. Kasha had an uncanny ability to predict the weather.

A swath of headlights kept coming as more cars pulled in.

“Fierce competition,” Jodi said. “We should split up. I’ll scout antiques. Kasha, you go for the kitsch. Suki, shop for the tearoom, and anything Art Deco. Breeanne, you’re assigned to—“

“Books.”

“Don’t attempt to carry them. Text us if you find any, and we’ll cart them back to the van for you.”

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Link to Follow Tour: http://www.tastybooktours.com/2015/01/back-in-game-stardust-texas-1-by-lori.html

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22401418-back-in-the-game?ac=1

Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/129829-stardust-texas

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Author Info:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lori Wilde has sold seventy-eight works of fiction to four major New York Publishing houses.

Her first NYT bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas.

A popular writing instructor, Lori is a two time RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. She's won the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Golden Quill, the Lories, and The More than Magic.