“Who just stole my thunder across the Hafton airwaves, you ask? Right now, right
this very second, listeners, I have Hafton’s one-and-only, the main man with the ball
in hand, Blane Steele is in the studio. Mark my words—he’ll not only steal the ball,
but your lady’s heart too. Watch out, gentlemen, the Stealer is in the house!”
— Sonny B. Knocking Boots, Hafton Radio 96.9
Coed antics.
Chaos.
Angst-ridden twists in fate.
Caterina is an intern. Sonny is her shock-jock boss. And Blane is a good-hearted
baller…except when he steps on the court. Between on-air dares, an evil feminist
professor, a straight-shooter of a coach, and rumors from the league surrounding
Steele, these three are destined to screw it all up.
Rather than a love triangle, this is a friends-to-lovers story where the disc jockey
acts as the catalyst, and a basketball player finds himself jinxed when center court
intersects with love.
Title : Dolce (Love at Center Court #2)
Release Date : 21 January 2016
Genre : Sports Romance
Author : Rachel Blaufeld
EXCERPT
I stood, flipped off the asshole who’d just destroyed my social life, and strode
toward the door. The curvy chick opened it wide for me before I even remembered
she was still standing there.
“Thanks,” I mumbled. “After you.”
I leaned into the door frame as I propped the door open with my elbow and
gestured for her to walk ahead. Avoiding my eyes, she slipped past me with a
muttered thank-you.
As the door clicked shut behind us, I said to her, “Yeah, well, a hand job may be nice,
but I guess that’s out after what I promised inside there.” I tilted my head back
toward the studio and laughed at my own joke.
She turned and shot me a hard glare, her oversized sweatshirt sagging off one
shoulder.
Most other girls I knew would have been fine if I dropped trou right there and
whipped my dick right the fuck out. Their hands would have been just itching to
grab me. But not this one.
“Kidding. I was kidding.” I lifted my hands in the air in surrender.
All of a sudden, I felt ashamed of my behavior. I wasn’t that guy. Was I?
She raised an eyebrow, making me question my character some more.
“I’m serious. Kidding. Listen, don’t let him boss you around. Once upon a time, Sonny
was an intern too. A lowly, pimply one.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.” Her words were thick with an East Coast accent and heavy
with doubt. “See you around,” she said, dismissing me at the supply closet.
About The Author
Rachel Blaufeld is a bestselling author of Coming of Age, Romantic Suspense, and
Sports Romance fiction. She recently asked her readers to describe her, and the
adjectives they came up with included: insightful, generous, articulate, and spunky.
Originally a social worker, Rachel creates broken yet redeeming characters. She’s
been known to turn up the angst like cranking the heat up in the dead of winter.
Turning her focus on her sometimes wild-and-crazy creative side, it only took
Rachel two decades to do exactly what she wanted to do—write a fiction novel. Now
she spends way too many hours in local coffee shops, downing muffins and plotting
her ideas. Her tales may all come with a side of angst and naughtiness, but end
deliciously.
Blaufeld, also an entrepreneur/blogger, is fearless about sharing her opinion. Before
turning her pen to fiction, she captured the ear of stay-at-home and working moms
on her blog, BacknGrooveMom, chronicling her adventures in parenting tweens and
inventing a product, often at the same time. She has also blogged for the Huffington
Post and Modern Mom.
Most recently, she shares conversations from being “In Bed with a Romance Author”
and reading recommendations over at “Happy Ever After”on USA TODAY.
Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her
family and two beagles. Her obsessions include running, coffee, basketball, icing-
filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.
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