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Release Blitz: The Best Ever by Deanna Wadsworth

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The Best Ever | Deanna Wadsworth

Destiny Ink Romance #5

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Release Date: March 13th, 2023

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Blurb

Jason Lewis is a self-proclaimed nerdy guy who hates his red hair. Bullied most of his life, at twenty-three social situations still make him awkward.

On a trip to the World Video Game Expo in Las Vegas, Jason decides to enlist the help of Destiny Ink in his failed romantic endeavors.

While at the con, he runs into sexy, professional baseball pitcher Blake Huntington, the guy he tutored in high school.

Blake invites him to a party and after hanging out with his high school crush, Jason begins to regret booking his Destiny encounter later that night. He has no idea that he’s about to have the best night ever.

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Excerpt

Would his old friend even remember him? He’d tutored him for six months, and they saw a movie once. For some reason, Blake had always waited after his second hour math class until Jason arrived for Spanish to give him updates about his progress or sometimes just to ruffle up his hair and say, “Hey, short-stack.” Jason had been late to Spanish so many times, he got a few demerits, but seeing Blake had been the highlight of his day. Overall the teasing had lessened that year with the baseball star being nice to him. Too bad they hadn’t had the same lunch hour. Blake even invited him to his graduation party, but Jason, still too shy, had opted to send a gift rather than attend.

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Thankfully, Abby bought him contacts and a car junior year, and he signed up to take some college courses via a postsecondary option program where he earned high school and college credit for basic classes. By eating lunch in the guidance counselor’s office, he’d managed to avoid the daily harassment, his swirly average being reduced to less than one a semester. Though still living at home, he flourished in the more academic setting of college. He even joined a martial arts club, got in shape, and made some real friends.

Jason was a far different man than that nervous, scared boy of fifteen.

Blake had a powerful effect on his life, but Jason was probably a footnote to him. That nerdy, red-haired geek who helped him pass math. What was his name again?

He should turn around and forget this whole idea. But all too soon, the man directing the flow of traffic asked him which player he wanted to meet.

His throat went dry. “Blake Huntington.”

The man gestured for Jason to enter the center line. His heart skipped when he caught a glimpse of Blake at the table of famous ballers.

My God, the man was sexier than the screensaver of him Jason had on his computer.

About The Author

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Deanna Wadsworth might be a bestselling erotica author, but she leads a pretty vanilla life in Ohio with her wonderful husband and a couple adorable cocker spaniels. She has been spinning tales and penning stories since childhood, and her first erotic novella was published in 2010.

She has served multiple board positions for different RWA chapters, including President of the Rainbow Romance Writers in 2017. When she isn’t writing books or brainstorming with friends, you can find her making people gorgeous in a beauty salon.

An avid reader, she also loves gardening, cooking, music, and dancing. Often she can be seen hanging out on the sandbar in the muddy Maumee River or chilling with her hubby and a cocktail in their basement bar.

In between all that fun, Deanna cherishes the quiet times when she can let her wildly active imagination have the full run of her mind.

Her fascination with people and the interworkings of their relationships have always inspired her to write romance with spice and love without boundaries.

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Release Blitz: Winning the Season by Beth Bolden

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Winning the Season | Beth Bolden

Miami Piranhas #4

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Release Date: December 1st, 2022

Cover Artist: Cate Ashwood Designs

Length: 100,000 words

Heat Rating: 4 flames

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Blurb

Asa might be the head coach, but he’s a man first.

Coach Asa Dawson has fallen wildly in love only twice in his life.

First with football.

Then with Scott Callaway.

But Scott isn’t just the one who got away.

He’s the one person—the one man—Asa hoped might finally show him how all-consuming passion could be.

Instead, fate (and football) intervened and they never got the chance to explore their attraction. Their friendship ended in ruins, Scott left, and Asa’s been torn between hating him and loving him for the last seven years.

Asa doesn’t think he’ll ever see him again, but when his bad habits catch up to him and he doesn’t have a choice but to accept help, he’s horrified—and exhilarated—to learn Scott’s been hired to assist him.

With the final stretch of the Piranhas season falling during the holidays, maybe what Asa and Scott have needed this whole time was a little Christmas magic to remind them the most important job isn’t to win the season—but to finally win each other’s hearts.

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Excerpt

Scott’s hands were still trembling.

It was like being plugged back into a socket, after so long without electricity, being in Asa’s presence again.

Since he’d gotten the call from Beau, he hadn’t really let himself consider what it would mean. What it would feel like.

He’d only allowed himself the worry.

Asa was sick; he was struggling and in the goddamn hospital. Beau had reassured him, more than once, that he’d be fine, that the doctors weren’t particularly worried, they only wanted him to change his lifestyle.

Sleep more. Eat better. Work less.

That, Beau had said, was where he came in. He didn’t know anyone else who’d be able to convince Asa to relax the reins.

Scott had agreed, because after how things had gone seven years ago, how could he not? How could he not be there for Asa when he needed him, more than anyone else?

But he didn’t tell Beau that he wouldn’t be able to convince him of jack shit now.

Asa was, understandably, still pissed.

Scott couldn’t even blame him.

He was still pissed at himself.

He’d known the moment he landed in Washington that it was all wrong, that he’d made a mistake, that instead of trying to be so fucking noble, he should have just taken Asa’s hand and kissed him and learned how to be happy.

No matter what that meant.

But he’d committed to leading Washington’s program, and he’d done that, for six years.

Then a year ago, they’d let him go, and he’d gone home, not to Tennessee, because Asa was still there, and the whole damn state didn’t feel big enough for the two of them, but back home to Alabama, to the small town he’d lived in before he’d gone to college.

“You alright?” Beau asked as they lingered at the front of the conference room, the rest of the coaching staff taking their seats, grumbling all the way.

It was deep into the season, it was the Monday after a game, and they were all tired.

Scott remembered exactly how it had felt, on those Mondays, even though he’d only ever coached in college, never in the NFL.

“Yeah, fine,” Scott said automatically.

He was not fine.

Not even remotely.

He’d thought . . . well, he didn’t know what he’d thought, exactly. But he hadn’t imagined that he and Asa would meet again like this. He’d imagined running into him—sorta, kinda, on purpose—on the Tennessee campus. He’d imagined making things right.

The part of the imagining he’d purposefully forgotten was that Asa was going to be justifiably pissed at him.

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About the Author

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A lifelong Pacific Northwester, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.

Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published twenty-three novels and seven novellas.

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Coach’s romance is everything I wanted and more!

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hands down, no debate necessary, my favourite book in this series and my second favourite couple from Beth, only being beaten by Colin & Nick (The Rainbow Clause).

I’ve been dying (and bugging Beth) to get Asa’s story since the beginning. There’s always been a hint of sadness and hidden heartbreak that wasn’t related to his ex wife and here we find out why and who.

The opening part of the book sets the scene, seven years previously and we get to see Asa falling in love with his best friend and fellow coach Scott as, over a period of months, he starts to see him in a new light.

This part is done so well by Beth, you live it along with Asa as he goes through the complicated and confusing process.

When he declares his love, you’re cheering alongside him, and your heart breaks when Scott admits he loves him too but he’s taken a coaching job at the other end of the country because he won’t let Asa give up his career, which is what he fears will happen.

We then get a seven year time jump during which Asa’s pushed away his feelings and turned all his focus on being the best coach and winning games.

You know something has to break though, and it does, when he has a mild heart attack and his son Beau brings in his godfather – yup, guess who! – to help out.

We also get to be inside Scott’s head and he’s filled with weighty regrets but also a determination to not let Asa down again.

As they hesitantly learn how to be around each other again, it becomes very clear those feelings haven’t gone away.

What follows is a masterclass in tension raising, UST-filled, emotionally charged narrative as both men are thrown in at the deep end with all that delicious attraction still bubbling right on the surface.

I’m not going to be spoiling anything here, let’s just say you won’t be disappointed by all the fratching, smouldering eyes and heated debates which push them closer to the expected blow up.

And this happens to have one of the most perfectly written first kisses in the history of first kisses imho because it’s utterly unexpected.

There wasn’t a bit of this story I’d have changed, in fact, for the first time ever since I’ve been Beta Reading for Beth, I had no notes 😁

Also this cover is brilliant and so much Asa!

#ARC kindly received from the author in return for an honest and unbiased review.

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