Sapphire Falls: Going for a Ride (Kindle Worlds Novella)
Star wide receiver Nick Hansen is used to a stadium full of adoring fans after the glory of four winning college football seasons, but that’s all in the past when he flubs the tryouts that would make him an NFL draft pick. Now he’s spending the summer working for his uncle’s traveling carnival company and trying to figure out who he is without football.<br /><br />Free-spirited Kelsey Brown returns to her hometown of Sapphire Falls, Nebraska, for the annual festival and a much-needed break to figure out her next career move—follow her corporate advertising job in its relocation or feed her artistic soul with the photography that she loves. But when she discovers her long-time football hero crush is working the festival, she quickly decides she’s going for a ride. With him.<br /><br />Sizzling summer nights in Sapphire Falls soon lead to a future neither of them could have imagined. But can two very different people follow their dreams together?<br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />“How about, just for this week, you be like me and go with the flow?†Kelsey asked.<br />Nick looked up at her. Even with the upside-down view, he was sexy, all square jawed, his lips smooth and sensuous. “What does that mean?â€<br />She stroked his jaw, reveling in the smooth hard line. “It means if I want to kiss you, you let me, and know that I like it as much as you. If I want to touch you, please by all that is holy, let me. You’re as beautiful as Michelangelo’s David. That’s a statue.â€<br />His lips played at a smile. “I know it’s a statue.â€<br />“I won’t hurt you, and you won’t hurt me. Okay?â€<br />He groaned. “Kelsey.â€<br />She gave him her best seductive smile. “We need more Booze.â€