Sunday Spotlight: Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen

Sunday Spotlight is a feature we’re running in 2016. Each week, we will spotlight a release we’re excited about. We’ll be posting exclusive excerpts and being total fangirls. You’ve been warned. 🙂

Sarina Bowen is my peeps. I love her stuff. She writes the kind of romance that make me as a reader, sit up and take notice. Of the world around me. Of the way that I react to things. The way that I treat others but she also writes some really freaking awesome contemporary romances. Rookie Move is one of those awesome romances. I read this book already and I know that you guys are going to enjoy it.

Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen
Series: Brooklyn Bruisers #1
Releases on September 6, 2016 by Berkley

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The first novel in a sexy new series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts—from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series.

In high school they were the perfect couple—until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold…

Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he’s called up to the newly franchised Brooklyn Bruisers, Leo gets checked on both sides, first by the team’s coach—who has a long simmering grudge, and then by the Bruisers’ sexy, icy publicist—his former girlfriend Georgia Worthington.

Saying goodbye to Leo was one of the hardest things Georgia ever had to do—and saying hello again isn’t much easier. Georgia is determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, but when a press conference microphone catches Leo declaring his feelings for her, things get really personal, really fast….

This week’s excerpt is Leo Trevi telling his new teammate how he and Georgia began going out in high school. Check it out:

Excerpt

“First time I ever asked her out, she didn’t believe me. Mighta been my cheesy pick-up line, though.”

“This I gotta hear.”

Leo chuckled. “We were sixteen, and had the same physics class together.”

Silas snorted. “Please tell me you didn’t offer to get physic-al.”

“It was almost that bad,” he said while Silas laughed. “The teacher was trying to get us all to understand circuits. So he said, ‘Who wants to be part of a human circuit? I need two volunteers.’” Leo could picture the scene like it was yesterday. Georgia sat a couple of rows ahead of him, and he usually spent physics class watching her instead of the teacher. He’d had his eye on her for a while before he got up the nerve to make his move. “So Georgia raises her hand. She was always fearless.” He chuckled at the memory. “Like, hell yeah I want to conduct an electrical current with my body. So I raised my hand, too.”

“Of course you did.”

“Right? I’d take an electrical shock to stand close to the prettiest girl in tenth grade. So the teacher puts us side by side, and he asks us to hold hands, so I knew I made the right decision.”

Grinning, Silas killed his beer.

“Then we each put our free hand on this metal conductor on a special battery the guy had. He switched it on, and nothing much happened. ‘But Leo—don’t let go if you don’t want to be shocked,’ the guy said, because if we broke the circuit, I’d feel it on my end.”

“So of course you let go,” Silas guessed. “Because sixteen-year-old boys are all geniuses.”

“Wait, were you there?” Leo joked. “Of course I let go. And it wasn’t a big shock, just a little zap. And Georgia just shook her head. After class I followed her to her locker and asked her to go to the homecoming dance with me. ‘There’s a real spark between us’ is what I said.”

“Smooth.”

“Right? And first she looked at me like maybe I was making fun of her. So I asked her two more times and she finally said yes.”

Silas pointed his empty beer bottle at Leo. “And that’s why you made it to the big leagues. Never give up, dude.”

Oh Leo…

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About the Author

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Sarina Bowen is the USA Today bestselling author of steamy, angsty Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction. She lives in the wilds of Vermont.

She is the author of The Ivy Years, an award-winning series set amid the hockey team at an elite Connecticut college. Also, the The Gravity series.

With Elle Kennedy, Sarina is the author of HIM and US.

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