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Title: The Hook Up
Author: Kristen Callihan
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Genre: New Adult
Summary
The rules: no kissing on
the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling
in love
Anna Jones just wants to
finish college and figure out her life. Falling for star quarterback Drew
Baylor is certainly not on her to do list. Confident and charming, he lives in
the limelight and is way too gorgeous for his own good. If only she could
ignore his heated stares and stop thinking about doing hot and dirty things with
him. Easy right?
Too bad he’s committed
to making her break every rule…
Football has been good
to Drew. It’s given him recognition, two National Championships, and the
Heisman. But what he really craves is sexy yet prickly Anna Jones. Her cutting
humor and blatant disregard for his fame turns him on like nothing else. But
there’s one problem: she's shut him down. Completely.
That is until a chance
encounter leads to the hottest sex of their lives, along with the possibility
of something great. Unfortunately, Anna wants it to remain a hook up. Now it’s
up to Drew to tempt her with more: more sex, more satisfaction, more time with
him. Until she’s truly hooked. It's a good thing Drew knows all about winning.
All’s fair in love and
football…Game on
Excerpt
My mother once told me
that the most important moment in my life wouldn’t be when I won the National
Championship or even the Super Bowl. It would be when I fell in love.
Life, she insisted, is
how you live it and who you live it with, not what you do to make a living.
Given that she told me this when I was sixteen, I basically rolled my eyes and
worked on practicing my pass fakes.
But my mother was
insistent.
“You’ll see, Drew. One
day, love will creep up and smack you upside the head. Then you’ll understand.”
My mom, it turns out,
was wrong in one regard. Love, when it came for me, did not creep. No, it
walked up to me, bold as you please, you know, just in case I wasn’t paying
attention. It did, however, slap me upside my head.
And while I’d be happy
to tell my mom that she was right about that, she’s dead. A fact that hurts
even more now that I’ve been struck down. More like shot down. Cut off at the
knees. Totally fucked. Whatever you want to call this disaster. Because the
object of my affection hates me.
I am man enough to
acknowledge that the cluster fuck that is my current love life is entirely my
fault. I wasn’t prepared for Anna Jones.
I still cringe at the
memory of when I first laid eyes on her at the beginning of the semester. Being
late for class, I’d rushed to a seat in the back row, and was trying to remain
unnoticed. I can’t go anywhere on campus without getting attention. And though
it sounds like an awesome thing, it gets tiring.
When the roll call
reached the back row, a soft voice, rich and thick as maple syrup, slid over
me.
“Anna Jones.”
Just her name. That was
all she’d said. It was like a hot finger stroking down my spine. My head
snapped up. And there she was, so fucking pretty that I couldn’t think
straight. I might as well have been sacked.
Breathless, my head
ringing, I could only gape. I’m not going to say it was love at first sight.
No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I’ll have that. With a helping of
right-the-fuck-now on the side.
Thinking maybe I was
overtired and simply overreacting to something that wasn’t really there, I
stared at Anna Jones and tried to make sense of my extreme reaction.
As if feeling my gaze,
she’d turned, and fucking hell… Her eyes were wide, almost cat-like, with the
corners tilting up just a bit. At first, those eyes appeared brown, but they
were really bottle green. And so clear. And annoyed. She glared at me. I didn’t
care. One word was playing a loop in my head: mine.
I don’t remember the
rest of the class. I watched Anna Jones like a condemned man getting his last
view of the setting sun. While she tried to ignore me. Admirably.
The second class ended I
shot up, and so did she. We nearly collided in the middle of the aisle. And
then it all fell to shit.
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Author Biography
Kristen Callihan is an
author because there is nothing else she’d rather do. She is a three-time RITA
nominee, and winner of two RT Reviewer’s Choice awards. Her novels have
garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and the Library Journal, as
well as being awarded top picks by many reviewers. Her debut book FIRELIGHT
received RT Magazine’s Seal of Excellence, was named a best book of the year by
Library Journal, best book of Spring 2012 by Publisher’s Weekly, and was named
the best romance book of 2012 by ALA RUSA. When she is not writing, she is
reading.
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