⚾𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋⚾️
From L.B. Dunbar comes an all-new small-town romance with a big family and the silver fox swoon one expects from her love over-40 romances. STERLING STREAK will be released on June 6, 2024. We are thrilled to share a sneak peek with you!
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What to expect:
✔️Country Music Star
✔️Baseball Player
✔️Single Dad
✔️Forced Proximity
✔️all the spice
✔️small-town romance
EXCERPT:
“You came to my game?”
She shrugs, her smile sweet. “Figured your ego could handle another fan.”
Does she really mean she came to support me? She’d been on tour since last fall. Her personal time must be limited and precious, so it’s hard to believe she flew all this way to see me play ball.
And yet, here she stands wearing a T-shirt with my name on the back, and I’m liking it a little too much.
Looking around me, she narrows her eyes. “Any sign of the ferret.”
“Ferret?”
Felicity, she mouths.
“No ferret. Not today.” Who is even looking? I have my girls here. And Cadence. “You met Ruby and Javier.”
Cadence smiles at the couple lingering close by but giving us space. “We’re best friends already.”
“Of course you are.” I laugh again, jiggle June against my chest and then set her down, flinching once more.
“I’ll take the girls home now,” Ruby says. “We’ve had enough popcorn and hot dogs. I think an apple or two might be in order.” With her hand reaching for June’s, she adds, “Good game, Ford.”
Javier pats my left shoulder and I try not to recoil from the sharp sting.
Zelle takes a few steps forward but then turns back. “When will you be home, Dad?”
“One hour,” I say. “Sixty minutes.”
“I’ll be counting.” Then she takes a step. “One.” Another step. “Two.” Her voice drones on as she moves forward and my chest aches from her fear.
“Better make it one hundred,” I call after her and I hear Zelle start all over again.
“You okay, cowboy?” Cadence asks as I watch the girls walk away and reach for my bat bag, hiking it up and over my right arm.
“Yeah. It’s just my shoulder.” I roll my left again, the pain more than a pinch. I’ll need ice and lots of it.
Cadence walks with me toward the training facility, and I’m hopeful of pulling her away from the prying eyes. Within a few feet, we reach the path leading to the second building and most people respect our privacy as if an invisible line in the pavement is drawn once the team reaches this spot.
“So, why’d you really come?” I bump my elbow into her arm.
Cadence grabs the bill of her cap—my cap—and tugs it downward. “I heard baseball players are superstitious and I worried this hat might be special. I thought I’d bring it back to you, but I was running late, and the game had already started. Some guy wouldn’t let me near the dugout even though I explained I had your lucky cap.”
“Lucky cap, huh?”
“Of course. It’s what you were wearing when you met me.” She smiles wide. Her mouth full.
Those blue eyes dancing.
I shake my head. “Which guy?”
“Don’t know. A silver fox wearing an official jersey.”
Silver fox? What the fuck is a silver fox? An old guy with gray hair? “Half the coaching staff might qualify under that description.”
“Seeing as I know who Ross Davis is.” She exaggerates her heart throbbing by patting her chest with both hands three times. “It wasn’t him.”
“Got a thing for silver foxes?”
“Nah. Just hot center fielders.”
I stop short and Cadence takes a step forward before turning to face me. We stare at one another a second before I clear my throat. “How long are you in town?”
She sighs. “I need to fly out first thing tomorrow morning.” She holds her hands upward and spreads them apart like a headline as she says, “Breaking news in the music industry.”
“Care to share with the class?”
“Maybe over a drink?” Her brows hitch.
“Not tequila.”
She flirtatiously pouts before straightening her lips.
“How do you feel about milk?”
Her eyes widen. “I don’t drink it. Why?”
“It’s what I’ll be serving with dinner.”
Cadence’s mouth falls open and her head nods once before she tilts it the slightest bit. “Ford Sylver, are you asking me over for dinner?”
I think I might be. My cheeks flame and it isn’t because of the hot Arizona sun. Holding out my hand, I say, “Give me your phone.”
With a huge grin on her face, Cadence hands me her phone where Cowboy is indeed listed as a favorite right after Enya. I add my address to the contact so she has it with the number and can easily map a route to the condo.
“How about six?” I need time to ice my arm and shower. And maybe tidy up my place a bit.
She smiles wide. “What can I bring?”
I bite my lip before suggesting her fine ass is enough.
“Just you, TQ.” She’s going to be more than I can handle.
“See you at six.” Nodding once, she steps aside so I can pass for the training facility but once I pass her, I turn and walk backwards.
“Hey, Cadence? Did you see me knock it out of the ballpark?”
“Really?” She tips her head back as the bill of the cap is covering her face too much. “Hadn’t noticed,” she teases. Her gaze lowers slowly, taking me in from top to toe. “I was too busy objectifying you in those pants. No one told me baseball pants were so sexy.”
My face flames a thousand watts again.
“I’m turning around now, Cadence. See you at six.”
“I’m going to objectify you again as you walk away.” She laughs and I swivel for the training center as I give her a backhand wave.
While smiling all the way to the building.
BLURB:
Love was a losing battle for this country music darling and a single dad, baseball star until one night brings them together and one small town sets the field for a possible winning streak.
They call me Lady Boss. Maneater. Queen. But beneath the makeup, blond wig, and glitzy costumes, I’m just a country girl who likes to sing. I don’t hate men, I’m just struggling to find a good one. I’ve learned my lesson. Fool me once, and it will never, ever happen again.
So I’m baffled when I meet Ford Sylver.
A superstar in his own right as centerfielder for the Chicago Anchors baseball team, plus a single dad to three adorable little girls, we share a moment when I save his firm backside and pretend he’s mine. Something that he can never be.
Only, when he suffers a season-changing injury and I need a place to disappear, we both end up back in Sterling Falls, where I’m suddenly and unwittingly his nanny.
There’s danger in having a wild side. I’ll try anything once. However, forced into close quarters with Ford, acting as his personal nurse, and caring for his three little ones might backfire. Because I’m staring at all I ever wanted and never thought would happen for me.
After losing at love in the past, could I finally be on a winning streak?
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