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BROKEN PLAY
Birmingham Rebels #1
Samantha Kane
Releasing Sept 1st, 2015
Perfect for fans of Shayla Black and
Lexi Blake, the deeply sensual new Birmingham Rebels series introduces an
unforgettable team of chiseled football gods—and the daring, provocative games
they play behind closed doors.
Birmingham Rebels offensive linemen
Beau Perez and Cass Zielinski are inseparable, on and off the field. Cass, the
captain with the cowboy swagger, is a loose cannon. Beau, the veteran tight
end, is cool under pressure. And ever since they were caught on tape in a
steamy threesome, their exploits have fueled more than a few tabloid
headlines—and naughty fantasies.
Marian Treadwell knows all about the
video. And now that she’s the Rebels’ new assistant offensive coach, she can’t
look at Beau and Cass without picturing their hard, naked bodies—with her
pressed in between. Marian would like nothing more than to indulge those
impulses, but she knows better than to get too close to her players, a bunch of
adrenaline-fueled alpha males who don’t always follow the rules.
Just the thought of sharing the
gorgeous yet guarded Marian drives Cass wild. At first, Beau isn’t sure she’s
right for them . . . and lately, all he desires is a little alone time with
Cass to explore their new intimacy. But it’s only a matter of time before Cass
breaks through both of their defenses. Because when seduction is the game plan,
he always plays to win.
Broken Play is intended for mature audiences.
Excerpt
There
were days when you owned the world, and days when the world chewed you up and
shat you out. Cass Zielinski, center for the redheaded stepchild of the
National Football League, the Birmingham Rebels, had woken up thinking it was
going to be the latter. First meeting after the draft, after a dismal second
season and their complete and utter failure to make the play-offs, he’d
expected some trash talk thrown his way and the offensive-captain patch to get
ripped off his jersey. Instead he sat staring at the prettiest coach’s assistant
he’d ever met, while the Rebels’ head offensive coach, Mike Richards, gave the
traditional “This Is Our Year” opening speech. The speech wasn’t quite polished
yet, but there were only four of them at the meeting, so he had time before
trying to bullshit the rest of the team.
“Hat.”
At the sound of the whispered word, Cass looked over at his best friend, Beau
Perez. Beau gestured to the hat on the table. It was sitting right in front of
the new assistant, and she couldn’t put her armful of papers down. “Hat,” Beau
whispered again.
Cass
clumsily yanked the cowboy hat off the table. He grew up in Texas, where people
made room for hats on the table when there was nowhere else to put them.
“Sorry, ma’am,” he said politely to the new assistant, who was staring at him.
Marian, her name was Marian.
She
blushed and smiled nervously, then looked away as she set her papers down at
last. Damn, she was pretty. She had long, straight blond hair, part of it
pulled back in some sort of professional-looking style, leaving the rest to
hang down her back. Under the harsh lights, it shone brightly against the dark
blue of her suit jacket. She was buttoned up like it was Sunday. He could still
tell she was fit, long and lean and athletic. When they’d shaken hands she’d
reached his chin in her low-heeled shoes. He was six four, so he guessed she
was about five seven. Tall for a woman. She had a light tan to her skin, as if
she spent time outdoors, not in a tanning bed. She made him think of those sexy
beach-volleyball babes. Mike had told them she’d worked at a small Division III
college in the northeast before coming to Birmingham.
Beau
pinched his arm and he jerked away, glaring at him. “What?” he mouthed.
Beau
wasn’t a captain, but where Cass went, Beau followed. It was part of the deal
when they’d signed. Beau gestured toward Mike with his head, frowning.
Beau
looked damn scary when he was frowning. He was six-six, with hair so dark it
looked black. He had that sort of coppery skin Mexicans had, pretty and
soft-looking. Not that Beau looked soft. His face was all angles, his nose
broken a time or two, his neck as thick as pretty Marian’s thigh, Cass would
bet. Beau’s mouth was fierce and wide, with thin lips, but he had a sharp
indent above, making his upper lip bow. Cass jerked his gaze away from Beau’s
mouth. Beau was looking at him, exasperated, and rolled his eyes at Cass. He
looked like an exotic Hulk, but his brown-gold eyes full of laughter ruined the
comparison. Beau got those pretty eyes and skin tone and hair color from his
mama. Cass had met her. His daddy was some handsome stranger who had some fun
and disappeared. According to Beau’s mom, he’d been tall and rugged, like Beau.
Too damn bad he’d walked away. He could have had a son in the NFL.
“Cass?
Anything to add?” Mike asked. Cass turned his gaze to the coach, who was
standing there, arms crossed, his expression clearly showing he knew Cass
hadn’t been paying a damn bit of attention. Mike was in his late forties, and
with his short, graying hair he looked every inch the suburban dad who shuttled
his kids to football and soccer practice and mowed the lawn every Saturday. In
truth he was a workaholic who’d been divorced twice and had no kids. He paid
someone else to mow the lawn of the house he barely saw.
“Nope,”
Cass said, covering, frowning and nodding his head as if he knew what was going
on. “Not right now. I think you said it all. I may have something after we
talk.” Nice way to make a good impression on the front office, Cass thought,
mentally kicking himself in the butt.
“I’ll
just bet you will,” Mike said sarcastically. “You know we drafted a good
running back in Tom Kelly,” he went on, getting down to business. “We traded
for two second-round picks next season, as well. We’re still building this
team.”
They
sure as shit were. “Tom was a mediocre player,” Cass said, trying not to grind
his teeth as he talked. Beau had told him that pissed people off. “And we got
Danny Smith in the trade. We didn’t need two new running backs. We had a chance
to grab Taylor Reutsch when he went free agent, instead.”
“Reutsch
wasn’t a good fit for this team,” Mike said stiffly. “We discussed this.”
“And
I disagreed,” Cass reminded him.
“Marian
convinced me Tom’s stats indicated he had more potential than what we saw while
he was at Nebraska. Their system didn’t work for him. Ours will. It’s done.”
Mike’s tone indicated the topic was dead.
Cass
glared across the table at Marian Treadwell. He’d underestimated her,
obviously. She was more than a pretty face. And she was messing with his team.
“I’d
be glad to go over his stats with you and explain why I encouraged the team to
acquire him,” she said with a polite smile. There was nothing weak about her
demeanor. He liked that. Liked that she spoke to him like an equal and clearly
expected the same from him. Her offer was an olive branch. Cass recognized it.
She wanted to stay. Cass had the power to make or break her here. He knew it.
She knew it. The whole damn table knew it. But she wasn’t begging.
“Sure,”
he said, with a stiff smile and a nod. “That would be good. But Reutsch—”
“Reutsch
is a pig,” Mike said, cutting him off with a curl of his lip. “I told you to
trust me, Cass. I know what I’m doing.”
“I
heard that about Reutsch, as well,” Marian said. “I don’t like to give credence
to rumors, but these were too prevalent to ignore. I didn’t feel that,
personalitywise, he would fit in here.” She was cautious, but still exuded
confidence with each word she spoke. It turned him on. He was surprised by his
interest in her because normally he didn’t poach in team territory. But damn,
she was going to be hard to resist.
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Samantha Kane lives in North
Carolina with her husband and three children, two boys and one girl. With a
master’s degree in American history, she spent seven years as a high school
history teacher before becoming a full-time writer and mom.
