PARKER by JILLIAN QUINN
Genre: Sports Romance
Publication Date: February 15, 2017
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33096138-parker
Blurb:
Former collegiate athlete and successful sports agent,
Charlotte “Coach” Coachman, is a straight shooter who has a very strict
policy—no dating clients. The loves of her life are coaching little league
basketball and managing the careers of her players, leaving no room for
men.
Coach hasn’t met an athlete she couldn’t handle and a deal she couldn’t
close—until she meets Alex Parker—the NHL’s most notorious bad boy both on and
off the ice.
Alex is the best defenseman in the league, breaking records along with hearts.
He’s made a name for himself as a womanizer, and after a scandal involving the
owner’s granddaughter, Alex is traded to Philadelphia. Still reeling from the
loss of his father, Alex is on a downward spiral, drowning himself in booze and
women, until Coach takes him under her wing.
She might be attracted to the sexy hockey star, and certainly not immune to his
charms, but Coach can see that Alex needs her help, and coaching players is
what she does best. Now that the lines are blurred and the passion between them
is too strong to deny, Coach has to decide if Alex is worth making an exception
to her rules.
Excerpt
As my cell phone rings, Tony mumbles that he’s going to grab
us a few more beers, and then he disappears into the hallway. I do not
recognize the number on the caller ID, but I do know the 215 area code.
Philadelphia.
I press the button to answer, and before I can even say
hello, a woman on the other end of the line says, “Parker, this is Coach.
Mickey wanted me to call personally, so here you go. You’ve got me for all of
two minutes and thirteen seconds.”
It takes me a minute to remember the name before I realize
it’s Mickey’s girl, Charlotte Coachman. Her voice is so stern and confident,
yet she’s exactly what I expected from what I’d heard about her from Mickey and
some of her clients. She has made a name for herself in the sports world, and she’s
one of the few women who didn’t sleep her way into that position, which is rare
in this business.
“Hello to you, too, sweetheart.”
At first, she chuckles, but then her laughter slowly turns
into a cackle. “Call me that again, Parker, and watch what happens. Let’s get
something straight. I’m not one of your puck bunnies. I have a name. That name
is Coach or Charlie, but it sure as hell isn’t sweetheart. You got that?”
This chick is crazy and feisty, and I kind of like it.
“One minute and thirty seconds.” She sounds like she’s
chewing glass, the words harsh and painful on the tip of her tongue. “In the
interest of saving ourselves the headache, I’ve arranged for my secretary to
meet you at the apartment building. Please don’t look at her, smile in her direction,
or flirt with her because I’m sick of replacing secretaries. I did you a solid
with the Philly deal, so I’d appreciate you doing the same and keeping your
hands to yourself.”
She went from intriguing to working my last nerve in a
matter of seconds.
“Give me some credit at least. You make me out to be a total
creep.”
“That’s not entirely off base, Parker. You seem to have a
problem with keeping your pants on—or is it finding them?”
I can hear her covering the phone and chuckling to herself
before she returns to being a mega bitch.
Damn those stupid YouTube videos.
“Forty-seven seconds.”
What is her problem?
She’s so uptight, she might snap in half.
About Jillian Quinn
Jillian loves Mafia men, sports, bad boys, dirty talkers,
strong female characters, and books with plenty of heat, all of which you will
find in her books. As a lover of all things bookish, she has a serious book
hoarding problem and runs a book blog in her free time. When she's not reading,
writing, or blogging, she's obsessively fangirling over hockey players and can
be found wherever she can catch the next hockey game.
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