Too Hot to Handle
The Boys of Summer # 2
The Boys of Summer # 2
By:
Katie Rose
Releasing January
27th, 2015
Loveswept
Blurb
Katie Rose’s Boys of Summer series returns for a delicious
double-header—with the story of total opposites who are drawn to each other
like moths to a flame.
Nikki Case is no fan of baseball. Her ex gambled away a fortune on
the sport, and now her PR firm has tasked her with cleaning up the league’s
most notorious bad boys. The New Jersey Sonics are known for wild womanizing
and booze-fueled brawls, so Nikki expects the worst. Her first stop in the
battle to win hearts and minds is star hitter Jake Baldwin—a legendary ladies
man so smokin’ he threatens to melt her tough-girl armor.
Although his teammates prank her without mercy, Jake admires the
way Nikki gives as good as she gets. She may be the queen of frost, but there’s
kindling beneath those sultry curves—and he’s just the man to ignite it. But
when a PR nightmare lands the Sonics in headlines across the country, Nikki is
ready to walk. Only then does Jake realize how important she is to the Sonics’
success—and that winning the love of a good woman is no game.
MY REVIEW
Katie
Rose’s Too Hot to Handle provides a scorcher with a tough as nail PR
woman and a hottie in baseball pants. Nikki Case is graced with the challenge
of improving the reputation of the New Jersey Sonics, who party hard and prank
harder. They make Nikki’s life crazy, and the ringleader is Jake Baldwin, who
has a bet going with some of his teammates that he can get her to fall for him.
Both
of the characters were enjoyable, and it was fun to see the layers pulled back.
Jake was a hot as anyone could image, but it was hard to get beyond his
original playboy image to see someone deeper. Nikki was exactly the opposite
until you got to know her, and I found myself rooting for this cute couple. I
loved how it combined both sports and romance, even if at times it seemed a bit
predictable. I would love to read more about the other characters, and I look
forward to reading more from her.
Link to Follow Tour:
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Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551564-too-hot-to-handle
Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/126154-the-boys-of-summer
EXCERPT
“What are you doing here?” the redhead spat, her green eyes
blazing.
“Working,” Desiree sneered, pouring a drink for emphasis. “You
know, real job?”
“Come on, Jake, let’s get out of here.” The redhead gave the
bartender a look that could shoot daggers.
Desiree smiled. “See you later, Jakey. Once you’re done wasting
your time with her.”
The redhead looked from Jake to the other woman and approaching
the bar, poured the glass of tequila over the bartender’s head. Desiree gasped,
the clear liquor trickling down her hair and onto her forehead. Grabbing a
towel, she rubbed the sting from her eyes, mascara smearing, and then sprang up
onto the bar, livid with outrage.
“Oh, no.” Ryan tried to insert himself between the two women, but
even his massive form wasn’t enough to keep them apart. A true Jersey catfight
ensued even as Jake tried to pull his date out of the grip of the furious
bartender.
Chase came around the bar and tried to break it up, but all he got
for his trouble was a face full of beer meant for the redhead. A tough-looking
thug who’d been eyeing up Desiree all evening jumped into the fray and punched
Jake, correctly assessing him as the source.
Without hesitation, Jake hit the man back and within seconds, the
entire bar had joined the fight. The redhead pulled Desiree’s hair and wound up
with a handful of platinum extensions, while the blonde brought her to the
ground.
The two women rolled on the marble floor, screaming and cursing,
while manicured fists tried to make contact. Darcy leaped up and grabbed the
security guard, and then tried to pry Chase out of the mass of flailing limbs.
She pulled him away just as he threw up his arm to protect her from a flying
beer bottle, while the guard tried to stop the brawl. Jake accidentally punched
Chase, his fist connecting neatly with the pitcher’s chin, and took a hit to
the gut in retaliation.
The bouncer quickly called for help, and two cops showed up in
record time. The lounge looked like something out of an old western as drinks
flew along with fists. One of the officers grabbed a pitcher of ice water and
unceremoniously threw it on the two women. The redhead let out a howl, giving
the man the opportunity he needed to get her off the bartender.
“Break it up!” the other policeman shouted, hauling the brawlers
away one by one. He had to call for reinforcements, but once security arrived
along with the hotel manager, they were finally able to round up the
instigators and hoist them down to the police station. Cell phones flashed,
Twitter tweeted, and YouTube exploded. Within minutes, the Sonics’ fight hit
social media everywhere as the fans re-tweeted the incident and shared the
videos.
By morning, the Jersey team was headline news.
Author Info
Award-winning historical
author Katie Rose makes her contemporary debut with the Boys of Summer novels,
Bring on the Heat and Too Hot to Handle, which combine Katie’s true loves:
baseball and romance! When not watching baseball, Katie is at her lake house in
New Jersey, hard at work on her next book.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorCQuinn
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