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Game On in Seattle #6
Jami Davenport
Released Oct 11th, 2015
Cedona Enterprises
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Today Bestselling author Jami Davenport introduces the Seattle Steelheads
football team with this sixth book in her Game On in Seattle sports romance
series.
The daughter of one-time rock
legends, Emma Maxwell is the good girl of the family, the dutiful sister, the
doting aunt, and a dedicated employee in the family party-crashing business.
Every Wednesday night at Karaoke, she indulges in her secret fantasy of being a
singer. Yet the thrill of being on stage doesn't rival the thrill of a
spontaneous liaison with the delectable, yet downtrodden, quarterback of the
Seattle Steelheads, Tanner Wolfe, Emma’s long-time crush.
Tanner didn't see it coming--not any
of it. He was blindsided--by his dysfunctional family, his plummeting career,
and the one thing he least expected--by love. After photos with Emma go viral,
Tanner is caught in a lie and tells a bigger one to get out of it. Now he’s
shoulder-pads deep in a temporary marriage while struggling to resurrect his
disastrous career and reunite his broken family. As time passes, Tanner begins
to wonder if temporary is good enough, but he’s made a promise to Emma, one
which has nothing to do with marriage vows and everything to do with her
Nashville singing career and the end of their relationship.
Will Tanner and Emma take the ball
and drive for the win, or will they be permanently relegated to the sidelines
as the clock runs out on their temporary marriage?
Excerpt #2
Emma was mad—at
herself. She’d revealed her biggest weakness to Tanner of all people. And for
what reason? Heaven only knew. She sure as heck didn’t. He wasn’t the One, and
she had no business telling him her secrets because he didn’t really care.
“Are you okay?”
Tanner stared at her, his mouth set in a grim line, while a lone muscle jerked
in his jaw.
Emma shook her
head. His concern wrenched another bout of sobs from her. How stupid and
ridiculous and weak? She was crying over karaoke for heaven’s sake. Except she
knew it was more than that. She was crying because she wasn’t strong enough to
follow her dreams like Avery or willing to give up the safe and known for the
dangerous and unknown. Emma liked everything lined up in neat little lines,
liked her life mapped out, all the way down to her someday wedding dress she’d
clipped out of a bride’s magazine and stored in what she called
her Notebook of Dreams. Tanner was in there, too, as her dream
man—the guy she measured every other guy against. Of course, she didn’t really
know him, only his public persona as a guy who did lots of charity work and was
known for his easygoing, generous lifestyle with a lot of partying thrown in.
“Oh, man,
sweetheart, I’m sorry.” He wrapped his strong arms around her. She stiffened
briefly, but couldn’t resist him no matter how hard she tried. Emma relaxed
into him, letting his warmth seep into her cold places, comforting her in ways
she’d only imagined. She’d certainly never been comforted by her parents as a
child. Izzy tried, but Izzy wasn’t exactly into warm-fuzzies. Yet, this man she
barely knew made her feel better with just a hug because he was good at this.
Really good. She reminded herself she meant nothing to him. He was not the One,
she repeated over and over in her head. Only her heart had donned
noise-cancelling headphones and was picking out wedding music.
Sniffling, Emma
pulled back. “No one in my family knows I sing karaoke, and they can’t know.”
“Why?” Confusion
spread across his handsome face.
“We have a pact—my
sisters and I.”
“A pact? Not to
sing karaoke? Seriously?” His brow creased in confusion and made him look so
adorable, his expression helped staunch the flow of tears.
“No. We have a pact
to never follow in our parents’ footsteps and become entertainers. We’ve lived
that story of being on top, crashing to the bottom, and spending the rest of
their lives trying to get back to the top again. The drugs, the drinking, the
late nights, the complete and total disregard for anything but the music,
especially your children.” And why was she telling him all this?
“Oh,” he seemed at
a loss for words. “But you sing at the parties you crash?”
“That’s different.”
“Because Izzy
approves of it?” he guessed, and Emma nodded slowly. “So you come here once a
week to sing?”
She nodded again,
surprised at how perceptive he was.
He rubbed his chin
as if deep in thought then refocused those deep green eyes on her. “Your secret
is safe with me.”
“Promise?”
“Yeah,” he said
softly, his voice deep and husky, a voice that instantly made her panties wet
and brought forth thoughts of steamy nights and naked bodies.
Oh my. Her hands
flew to her mouth as she inwardly cringed at her wayward thoughts.
He patted her back,
wrongly assuming it had to do with her broken dreams. He had no idea he was a
large part of them. The DJ called him to sing, and she sat back, relieved to
have a reprieve and happy to have an excuse to watch him without coming across
as a stalker or a desperate woman with an even more desperate crush.
He had to be the
hottest man in the room. Judging by the other women hungrily watching him, she
wasn’t the only one who thought so. Tanner picked up the mic, nodded to the DJ,
and grinned straight at Emma, making her feel as if she were the only woman in
the large bar. She expected harsh music or even rap, only he pulled another
surprise out of his bag of tricks.
Tanner’s gaze held
hers captive as he started to croon a classic country ballad made famous by George Strait George Strait
Emma couldn’t
breathe, she couldn’t form a coherent thought as Tanner expertly wound a cocoon
around the two of them with a song he sang as if he sung it just for her. His
voice rolled over her like a warm ocean breeze, gentle and mesmerizing.
The man could sing,
and Emma went from a crush to being hopelessly, undeniably in love with the man
before he got to the chorus.
“Don’t look so
shocked,” Tanner said after he sauntered back to his seat and sat down next to
her. With a satisfied smirk on his face, he sipped his beer, the same one he’d
been nursing all night.
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While all books in this series can
be read as standalones, you'll most likely enjoy reading the other books in the
Game On in Seattle sports romance series:
Book 1--Skating on Thin Ice (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey)
Book 2--Crashing the Boards (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey)
Book 3--Crashing the Net (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey)
Book 4--Love at First Snow (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey)
Book 5--Melting Ice (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey)
Book 6--Blindsided (Seattle
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Book 7--Bodychecking (Seattle
Sockeyes Hockey) AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2016
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Davenport writes sexy contemporary and sports romances, including her two new
indie endeavors: the Game On in Seattle Series and the Madrona Island Series.
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. She works in computer
support in her day job and juggles too many balls, but she wouldn't have it any
other way.
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