BLURB:
The
clock’s ticking down, and Estelle Harris and Lumberjacks quarterback Brett
Gunnels are about to enter crunch time.
SYNOPSIS:
CRUNCH TIME
Supposedly
undersized for the NFL, Brett Gunnels went off to do a stint in the
US Army right out of high school. Returning damaged yet stronger and
more determined than ever to prove himself, he was picked last in the
draft. Mr. Irrelevant, they called him. The last few years as a backup
quarterback have given him no opportunity to compete for the starting job.
That’s why he has a chip on his shoulder the size of Puget Sound.
Estelle
Harris is engaged to a man she doesn't love, working a job she hates,
and fooling everyone including herself in the process. Her love of animals
is the only thing that gives her purpose—a love she shares the
Lumberjacks’ reclusive quarterback. And then their mutual friendship turns
a hot, dark, forbidden corner and there's 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.
REVIEW:
This is the first
book I have read by this author, so I was not sure what to expect. I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the
book. Time of Possession is the 5th
book in the Lumberjack series and can be read alone. As I said, I have not read any of the
previous books, so I was really hoping I would not be lost. I was not disappointed. Even though I had no back story and did not
know anything about the other books, this book was not hard to keep up with or
fall into.
Brett just
received the opportunity of a lifetime to step up and lead the Lumberjacks
after the star quarterback got injured and will be out the rest of the
season. Brett has heard all the stories
about him not being big enough, etc. to lead a team, but he is determined to
make it work. After all, this is the
opportunity he has been waiting his whole NFL career for. What he doesn’t expect is to fall for the
fallen quarterback’s sister.
Estie likes
control and knowing exactly what is going to happen in her life. That is one of the reasons she is set to
marry her longtime friend, even if the chemistry is not there. However, when she meets the delectable Brett,
she is beginning to second guess her life choices. Brett makes her feel things she never has
before, threatens to break down her walls and bring chaos into her life.
Will Estie be
able to let go and follow her heart?
Will Brett wait on Estie to overcome her past? This was a sweet book about a man overcoming his
demons and going after what he wants in life.
Estie was so afraid of failing that she settled for a nice, calm,
structured life that denied her true passions and desires. When the two lost souls found each other, it
was hard to deny that they were exactly what the other one was missing. Brett needed support and love that he had never
been given and Estie needed the strength to follow her heart and dreams.
The book sucked me right in and I had to keep
reading to see if they would get their HEA.
There were several times that I really just wanted to slap Estie to make
her wake up and realize that she had a man who adores her just waiting on her
to make up her mind. I loved that Brett
was not ashamed of how he felt about Estie and didn’t hold back when he knew
that he was in love with her. It was
truly a sweet story and one I enjoyed reading.
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EXCERPT:
The woman of
Brett’s dreams stood in the open doorway wearing a black sweater covered in dog
hair.
Forget that she was as tall—or
taller—than him. Forget that her brother happened to be a premier asshole and
the Seattle Lumberjacks’ starting quarterback, well, at least until he’d torn
his ACL yesterday.
Forget that she wore a diamond on
her ring finger that would have choked Hoss Price, the team’s mammoth starting
center.
Forget all that. Standing there
on the porch, Brett Gunnels fell in love at first sight—or definitely in lust.
He didn’t know if it was her brilliant sky-blue eyes, her beautiful face, the
dog hair, or a combination of all three. He only knew that he was hooked with
just one glance.
“Come on in.” Estelle Harris
smiled at him, a kind, warm smile, a smile that cast light into all those dark
corners he swore would never see the light of day again. His heart kicked into
overdrive and slammed against his rib cage, while his lungs forgot breathing
was their purpose.
She turned and ushered him into
her house. Brett stared after her, his body motionless and temporarily rendered
out of service like a city bus at the end of its nightly run.
She glanced over her shoulder,
and her curious expression rebooted his brain.
He lurched forward and stumbled
on the threshold but recovered nicely and stepped into the modest entryway, his
pride in tatters. Her amused grin spread heat through his body faster than a
California wildfire in high winds.
God, she was stunning, and way
out of his league in so many ways.
“I hope you’re Brett, and I
didn’t just let a Ted Bundy copycat into my house.” Her sweet laughter wrapped
around him like a warm blanket on a cold winter night.
Brett shook his head, appalled
she might be serious. “Yes, I’m Brett. And you are Tyler’s sister Estelle?” He
cringed at the stiff formality in his voice. Again that smile, like Mona Lisa.
Only Mona Lisa had nothing over this woman.
“Everyone calls me Estie.”
“Estie then.” His own smile
rushed to his lips and refused to cease and desist. He probably looked like a
half-witted, grinning fool. He held out his hand. She took his in her soft one
with a firm grip of long, sexy fingers. He stared at their joined hands, hers
with the cotton candy pink fingernails and his with its bumps and scars. Her
hand was so soft, so feminine, so perfect.
Estie cleared her throat.
Finally, she slid her hand from his grasp, giving him an odd look. He’d been
hanging on too tight and too long. The heat rose to his cheeks and ears to
rival the heat in the rest of his body. Way
to go, Gun. Make an idiot of yourself with the first woman who’s interested you
in eons.
Estie walked across the room like
an angel gliding through clouds and stopped in front of a bird cage. She
pointed at the large parrot inside who had cocked his head and was watching
them both. “And the name of your foul-mouthed friend here? Lavender was in such
a hurry to fly to San Fran to be with Tyler, she never told me this guy’s
name.”
Estie laughed again, and her
voice took on this breathless quality as if he affected her as much as she
affected him. Her deep blue eyes—so much like her brother’s, but he wouldn’t
hold that against her—mesmerized him. All that romantic shit he’d heard over
the years from his sisters hit him like a speeding car on the freeway. His
brain did a free-fall into a self-induced coma, his feet became one with the
floor, and his heart pounded louder than a series of bombs dropping on an enemy
target.
“The parrot? What is his name?”
Estie frowned as she repeated her question and her neatly plucked brow
furrowed. Brett blinked several times in an attempt to signal his brain to snap
out of it.
Obviously tired of waiting for
his dumbshit owner to get a grip, the African Gray took matters into his own
wings, “Bongo, pretty lady. Bongo. Bongo wants to see you naked.”
Her eyes grew big, and she stared
at the parrot with her gorgeously sinful mouth hanging open. To her credit, she
recovered quickly and peered inside the cage, a smile once again tugging the
corners of those pink lips. “You’re a little devil, Bongo. I’ve been asking you
your name all evening.”
“Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.”
Bongo rang a little bell attached to his perch for emphasis.
This time Estie laughed, an
amused tinkling laugh. “Did you say you left him with my brother?”
Brett nodded. “You can tell,
huh?” Tyler Harris was known for his fondness of the F-word, a bad habit he’d
passed on to the bird, or more likely trained into the bird.
“Absolutely.” Again the Mona Lisa
smile. Damn, he was going to have to get a print of that painting and hang it
in his bedroom, but then he’d never get any sleep.
“I can’t leave him alone,
especially not for a few days; he gets lonely and destructive. I used to put
him in animal daycare, but they kicked him out for bad behavior and worse
language. Then I left him with a neighbor kid to babysit. His mother had a fit
when Bongo told her husband that she was messing around with the college
student next door.”
“Was she?”
“I have no idea,” he chuckled.
“So you put it back on my brother
to provide babysitting since he taught the little guy some naughty words.”
“Something like that. Lavender loves
animals, and she didn’t mind. I really appreciate you stepping in to help me
out.”
“It’s all for the animals.” She
walked into the living room, tastefully furnished with overstuffed furniture
covered with neatly folded blankets, most likely for her furry children. Oh,
lord, a woman after his own heart, with the comfort of her animals coming
first. Despite the animal comforts, nothing was out of place, nothing like his
messy house, nor did it smell like animals lived there. In fact, it smelled
wonderful, like a combination of spring blossoms and a mountain meadow. The
hardwood floors gleamed, not one fluffy cloud of dust and cat hair anywhere,
and he was pretty sure she had a cat based on the pictures on her mantle.
Brett followed her, his eyes
dropping to her blue-jeans-clad ass, a really, really nice ass, and those long
take-me-to-heaven legs. Any guy in his right mind would fantasize about those
legs.
Brett tugged on his collar and
wiped his brow. He cleared his throat and swallowed. He was hooked, but judging
by that impressive diamond ring, so was she. Leave it to him to fall for an
unattainable woman—wouldn’t be the first time. As the Jacks’ backup
quarterback, women looked right past him to the starters. It was the story of
his life, and he was used to it. Not that he’d grown complacent, but being
pissed about the hand life dealt you wasn’t his way. He was first and foremost
a fighter.
An advocate of happy endings, Jami Davenport writes sexy romantic comedy, sports hero romances, and equestrian fiction. Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland cross with a tennis ball fetish, a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat, and an opinionated Hanoverian mare.
Jami works in IT for her day job and is a former high school business
teacher and dressage rider. In her spare time, she maintains her small farm and
socializes whenever the opportunity presents itself. An avid boater, Jami has
spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books.
In her opinion, it is the most beautiful place on earth.
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