Get ready for a brand new season with Lincoln Nash, the new head coach of the 𝘝𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘦𝘴. Check out the double release of 𝘙𝘐𝘝𝘈𝘓𝘙𝘠 and 𝘗𝘓𝘈𝘠 𝘊𝘈𝘓𝘓, the first two books in the 𝘝𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 by Lisa Suzanne.
𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗥𝗬
When I score the promotion of my dreams and my boss tells me to become best friends with the new head coach of the Vegas Aces, I do everything I can to prevent the inevitable from happening.
The Vegas Aces could’ve hired anyone as their head coach. Despite my protests and warnings, they chose Lincoln Nash.
With a family rivalry spanning two decades, I’ve been conditioned to hate the entire family. But there’s a special passion to my hatred for the new coach. He was my first when we were teenagers, and then a few days later, he broke my heart.
When I’m named the Vegas Aces team correspondent for my news channel and the team owner grants me the first exclusive interview, it takes everything in my power to keep it professional as I interview my mortal enemy.
A family feud may have torn us apart, but the biggest rivalry of all is going to be keeping my job as I fight my feelings for the new coach.
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EXCERPT
“How are we going to do this?” He closes the gap between us, and fire races up my spine at his proximity.
His hips press to mine, and suddenly I’m shoved up against the wall again. My pulse races as every sense is taken over by him. He’s all I can see, hear, smell, and feel, and I want more than anything to have one more taste. One more kiss.
Just one.
Just to get it out of my system.
In this moment, I feel like I need it like I need to breathe.
But that’s not something I’ll ever admit to him.
“We’re going to be professionals,” I whisper, and the words come out more like a question than a confident answer. I can’t have confidence when I’m this close to him. I can’t even think straight over the rushing in my ears and the thundering beat of my heart.
His hips shift against mine, and I know he’s affected. I can feel just how affected by the way he shoves against me, and that ache between my legs pulses again.
What I wouldn’t give to feel him one more time…to see just exactly how good time has been to him.
He takes my left hand in his and links his fingers through mine, his eyes falling down onto our joined hands before he lifts my arm up and braces his arm still holding my hand on the wall above me.
His free hand grips onto my hip, and my arm comes up to hold onto his bicep. His thick, muscular, sexy bicep.
Oh dear Lord.
He leans down so his nose brushes against mine, and my chest lights with butterflies as I think he might kiss me.
He doesn’t. Instead, he grits out more words. “I don’t know if I can do that with you, and I can’t let you screw this up for me.” Frustration is evident in his tone, and I just don’t know if he’s frustrated with me or with this entire situation we find ourselves in.
“I can’t let you screw up my job for me, either,” I say, running my nose along his, too, as I shift my lips mere millimeters from his.
His breath mingles with mine. We’re so close.
Kiss me. Kiss me. Kiss me.
So close.
I nearly catch his lips with mine, but I can’t. I find myself needing him to make the first move—a total contradiction to the aggressive, career-minded woman I’ve grown into. But because he was two years older than me back then, I always let him take the lead. I liked when he took the lead.
And when he was no longer there to take it, I stepped up and learned how much I could do myself.
It’s strange to see myself reverting back to the girl I always was with him, but what’s even stranger is how easy falling back into that old role feels right now.
I rock my hips against his.
It’s been too long—too long without him, too long without any man as my focus has shifted from my personal life to my son and my career.
Anybody but him. The Aces could have hired anybody. But it had to be him.
And now we have to face our history, or maybe we just let it explode right here in the break room on top of that old table where I used to write essays.
God, I’m a puddle of need right now. I think this might be the single hottest, most erotic moment of my life.
He leans down, and his lips graze my neck. He takes just the tiniest nibble there that’s like a bolt of electricity directly to my core before he straightens and stares down at me, our eyes saying something to each other in a language I’m no longer familiar with.
I wish I was.
I wish I could decode what he’s thinking right now.
But the moment passes. His eyes cloud over, and he drops his hand from my hip and pushes himself away from the wall.
REVIEW
First of all I want to say that I love the series that are under Vegas Aces umbrella and this is turning into my favorite one to date. Rivalry, book 1 in the Vegas Aces: The Coach series is 20 years in the making. Lincoln Nash and Jolene Bailey are the children of NFL legend but their past is loaded with heartbreak and a feud that destroyed them and the friendship between the two families.
Coming from a legendary football family, Lincoln Nash is as competitive as they come. He has sacrificed everything for his career. Family and football are his life. He’s loyal to his father and that has cost him the one thing he’s missing, Jolene Bailey.
Jolene Bailey is a local sports reporter whose father happens to be a retired NFL. She’s a single mom who has fought her way to her dream job. Of course because she is in a male dominated profession, she has had to work harder and smarter than her male counterparts. As with Lincoln, she is loyal to her father.
Rivalry (Vegas Aces: The Coach 1) is full of emotions and a strong attraction that affects both Lincoln and Jolene were never expecting. The past heartbreak, family loyalty, and the idea of wanting more out of life during the offseason, creates an impeccable mark for the upcoming season. I cannot wait to read Play Call, the next book in this series.
𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟
A trip across the country to cover an event plus one failed hotel room reservation means there’s only one bed for me to share with the new Vegas Aces head coach. We’ve been fighting each other nonstop as we push against the past, but it only takes one weekend for feelings two decades old to come rushing back.
We can’t be together. The reasons keep stacking up, from our bitter family rivalry to the fact that he can’t get involved with a member of the media to the accusations regarding the way I scored this job.
And so my best friend proposes a fake relationship. He’ll date her in public and come home to me, where we can get to know each other again and figure out whether there’s a future for us.
I’m shocked when Lincoln agrees to the plan, but a scorned colleague of mine is watching our every move. We have to be careful or it’ll become the kind of play call the coach will forever regret.
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REVIEW
Emotionally gut wrenching
I am loving Jolene and Lincoln’s story in Vegas Aces: The Coach. Their story continues to pull at my heartstrings, so many lies and secrets are being spun and it’s starting to take their toll. Tears and threats, from outside sources, are starting to add more complications into the mix.
Jolene continues to do what she needs to do to maintain her job and Lincoln. But all the stress is making her question if it’s all worth it. Keeping this big of a secret from both her son and parents is taking a toll on her. She remains set on proving she deserves the job promotion and she didn’t sleep her way to the top. But above everything else, she is a mom first.
Lincoln continues with his inner struggles on how to navigate his relationship with Jolene. Not only that he is being questioned by another coach for the Aces. Above all, he remains focused on his duties as head coach while trying to figure out his relationship with Jolene.
Play Call, at least for me, was definitely more heartbreaking than Rivalry. The way Lisa Suzanne tells the story pulls every emotional heartstring you have. Her in depth character development along with a gripping storyline will draw you in. Jolene and Lincoln’s story pulled me in and hasn’t let go. Can’t wait to read more in Game Play.
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Lisa Suzanne is a romance author who resides in Arizona with her husband and two kids. She’s a former high school English teacher and college composition instructor. When she's not chasing her kids, she can be found working on her latest book or watching reruns of Friends.
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