I'm hosting an excerpt from "The Playmaker", a contemporary/sports romance novel. I hosted the excerpt from "Fire on Ice", the first book in the series earlier this week.
Book Excerpt
I stared at the huge
stadium in front of me. I was about to walk into Key Arena for my first game as
a major league hockey player but I still felt small and insignificant next to
the massive structure.
Me, Kian Kavanagh, a kid
from the wrong side of Boston, was now an NHL player. It was something I had
dreamed about since I was a kid and first set foot on the ice but it still
didn’t feel real. I felt like I could wake up any minute and it would all be
just a cruel dream. I had worked so hard and for so long just to be in this
place and at this moment. Where I was from, people were well aware of what
happened when their dreams died but no one ever taught me what it was supposed
to be like when a dream came true.
The only thing that was
missing, the only thing that could possibly make the moment any better, would
be to have my girl right there with me.
My girl.
No other two words sounded
sweeter.
I had to do a lot of hard
things in life. Being raised, if you could even call it that, by a
drug-addicted, alcoholic mother came with its share of shit storms. Growing up
on the wrong side of town and trying to get through school on my own wasn’t
easy. But by far, the hardest thing I ever had to do was leave my girl, my
princess, and move to Seattle without her.
But she was a senior in
college. She had to finish her final semester. And she was getting ready for
graduate school. I wanted all of those things for her. Things that were
important to her and made her Taylor Thompson.
She was better than me in
every way and we both knew it. I felt so freaking lucky every day of my life
that she wanted to be with a guy like me. Now that I was a major league player,
I finally had something real to offer her. Something that made me worthy of
being her guy.
I rubbed the smooth heart-shaped gemstone that
was in my front pocket and inhaled a deep breath. That gemstone, rose quartz,
Taylor called it, was supposed to symbolize love. Taylor gave it to me our last
night together in Arizona. She said it was a symbol of her heart and I was to
always carry it with me. I never went anywhere without it.
Taylor promised she would
watch my games on television. I was so proud of her for so many reasons: for
overcoming a really shitty high school boyfriend who betrayed her in an
unforgiveable way and for following her dream to earn a doctorate in
psychology. I was lucky my ass graduated high school. I did it by the skin of
my teeth. Not because I was stupid but because I had such a shitty life; trying
to survive was a bigger priority that school work. When I had to try and find
something to eat because my mom didn’t give a shit about buying food, homework
didn’t seem as important.
Being here, playing in the
major leagues, was finally my chance to do something that would make Taylor
proud of me. And I could prove that I wasn’t the complete loser that her
parents thought I was. Maybe they could finally see me as being worthy of their
daughter.
The Playmaker
Title: The Playmaker
Author: Dakota Madison
Genre: Contemporary Romance / New Adult Romance / Sports Romance
Kian Kavanagh, Mr. Fire on Ice, has just
been called up to play hockey for the NHL’s new expansion team in Seattle.
Finally playing in the NHL is a dream come true…except for one thing. Kian has
to leave Northern Arizona and the love of his life, Taylor Thompson, to pursue
his dream.
Taylor Thompson thinks she’s got life
figured out. She’ll finish her final semester of college then move to Seattle
to attend graduate school and be with her man. Until one fateful night when
Taylor’s world is complete shattered and everything she’s ever
wanted—everything she’s ever hoped for—is called into question.
Will Kian’s love be
enough to help put Taylor’s shattered world back together again or will tragedy
tear them apart?
Author Bio
Dakota Madison has been writing since she
learned to read and fell in love with books. When she's not at her computer
creating spicy new romances, Dakota is traveling to exotic locales or spending
time with her husband and their bloodhounds.
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