Hopeless Romantic

On The Rocks by Elise Faber releases on September 27th!

 

 

 

I was a failure.

I’d grown up with two well-meaning, but also two overbearing parents, and, as the youngest of three siblings, I was the only one who wasn’t “successful.”

I worked in a bar. In. A. Bar.

Yup, that was me hearing my mother’s disappointed voice. Because everyone around me was climbing the corporate ladder or performing brain surgery. Hell, my own brother was succeeding as an actual rocket scientist. Meanwhile, I was slinging drinks and refining the art of mixing the perfect Cosmopolitan.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do—other than not being a rocket scientist—or who I wanted to be when I grew up. And if I was being honest with myself, growing up had come and gone a while ago.

I just . . . wanted to feel something.

Excitement or pleasure or even to know what it was like get my heart broken. But nothing ever happened to me. I existed in this boring bubble of life, pouring drinks most nights, reading the others away, and . . . not feeling anything.

Until I saw him.

Then I felt everything.

 

 

 

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Protecting her is a deadly game...

Rugged hockey star Dax O’Day has always had a thing for his best friend and teammate’s twin sister, but that’s a line you don’t cross. Not in hockey, and definitely not in life. He can’t stop thinking about her, and when she turns to him for help, there isn’t a chance in hell he can refuse her—even if it means getting his hands dirty.

Beautiful and brilliant, Isla Campbell is an astronomy professor who comes from a titled Scottish family. She’s loved Dax since the first time they met, but he’s never been interested, so she tries not to think about it. After a brutal attack, she needs help and he’s the only one she can trust as she struggles to overcome her demons.

He wants to stay by her side... a constant in the storm. And when the past threatens to come crashing back into her life, he’ll protect her at all costs.

His career, his reputation, even his life. Will it be enough?

 

 

 

CRUNCH TIME
Supposedly undersized for professional football, quarterback Brett Gunnels went off to do a stint in the U.S. Army right out of high school. Returning damaged yet stronger--and more determined than ever to prove himself--he was the last pick in the draft. Mr. Irrelevant, they called him. But he's a starter and a winner despite his past few years as a backup. Now he's going to prove it.
Estelle Harris is engaged to a man she doesn't love, working in the wrong job, and fooling everyone including herself in the process. Her love of animals is the only thing that gives her purpose. As she shares that love with the Steelheads' reclusive quarterback, and much, much more, it's only a matter of time until their friendship turns that final, hot corner. There'll be no going back.
True love is like football. It's not always how long you have the ball. It's what you do when you get it.
Previously published in 2014 as Time of Possession. This version has been updated, rewritten, and re-edited.