Young Adult Romance
Play with me & Ryan Hunter are the first two books in the Grover Beach Team Series!.
Same story but each book in a different POV. The first is the heroine, the second is the hero.
Ryan Hunter’s parties are legend. And tonight she’s going to be there.
Lisa Matthews has been in love with her best friend since kindergarten. They’re close as can be. They’ve even slept in each other’s bed. But they’ve never kissed. Weeks away from her seventeenth birthday, Lisa hopes that soon things will change between them. But when Tony comes home after summer soccer camp, his mind is focused on someone else. And worse, that new girl is a soccer player.
Fighting for her love, Lisa gets carried away and makes a stupid decision: Without the least bit of talent or any passion for the sport whatsoever, she goes for the co-ed soccer team.
The tryouts are hell, the first match ends bloody, and the morning after the selection party she wakes up in the worst place possible—in the arms of the captain of the soccer team. The hottest guy in school. Ryan Hunter.
Ryan Hunter:
My shoulders slumped with
disappointment. But then a few guys shifted to the side, and I spotted a pool
table and someone leaning over it in an eye-catching way.
By now I was pretty good at
recognizing Hunter’s black hair.
He held the cue low over the
green felt, aiming the tip at the white ball. Some colored balls fanned out on
the table too, but as it looked he was going for the black eight.
“Come on, Ryan, give a friend a
chance. You can’t hole the ball just yet.”
I pivoted to the left to see
who was pleading with Hunter. I didn’t know the tall boy’s name, but the look
on his face was hilarious. One would think his life depended on Ryan’s hit or miss.
“What’s your problem, Justin?”
Still working on positioning the cue perfectly, Hunter grinned. “Afraid, your mama’s
going to find out you’re playing for money?”
Just then I noticed the stack
of dollar bills at the edge of the table. They seemed to have a sum of about
one hundred bucks in the pot. My jaw dropped. Fifty from each? I didn’t get
half as much pocket money in one month.
“My mama doesn’t give a damn.
But I really, really need this Spiderman comic. It’s an
original,” Justin whined.
I felt really bad for him.
Intrigued how the game would end, I moved around the edge of the wall and stood
facing Hunter across the room. Narrowed eyes and knitted brows gave away how
tense he was. The cue moved backward just a couple of inches. He’d shoot any
moment.
But then his dark eyes looked
up…and remained fixed on me. His body froze, only his chest moved with each
breath. Heads turned in my direction. My heart drummed a little faster, and
with all the attention, my cheeks warmed uncomfortably.
I grimaced. “Is something
wrong?”
Ryan didn’t answer, but Justin
victory-punched the air as he rushed to my side. He laid his arm around my
shoulders, grinning like a loon. “You just saved my life, hun.”
“Ah…yes.” My gaze switched back to Hunter. “And how so?”
He started grinning, too, but
didn’t seem as happy as the guy next to me. More like he knew crap was about to
fall.
“He can’t play when someone’s
watching him,” Justin almost sang into my ear. “Totally screws up then.”
“But you all are watching him,” I pointed out.
At the back of the room,
someone laughed. “Yeah, but we’re not girls.”
Chuckling, Hunter straightened
and chalked the tip of his cue, lips tight, eyes set on me. Although my being
there obviously amused him, I didn’t want to trouble him, especially where
money had a hand in the pie.
“Sorry,” I croaked. “I’ll leave
you guys alone then.”
“Uh-uh, no way, hun!” Justin’s
arm remained firm around my shoulders. “You’re my insurance to get that comic
book. You stay.”
His antics made me laugh, even
though I felt like a traitor.
Ryan, who hadn’t said one word
in all that time, slid his tongue over his bottom lip, then the left corner of
his mouth tilted up. He took a deep breath and leaned over the table once more.
Everyone kept silent. Justin crossed his fingers next to my face, no doubt
praying for Hunter’s miss.
I never thought a single shot
could get an entire room this tense. Including me. Ryan cleared his throat, his
gaze moving back and forth between me and the white ball. Suddenly he dropped
his forehead to the edge of the table and laughed. “Take your money, Andrews. I
give up.”
The room cheered as though the
unthinkable had just happened. Justin pressed a kiss to my cheek and hurried to
grab the bills. I stood rooted to the spot, staring at Ryan, who now braced his
palms on the pool table and hung his head. But when he looked up, there was a
flash of amusement in his eyes again.
“I’m so sorry,” I mouthed, not
even trying to raise my voice over the other guys’ celebration.
“You are banned from this room,” he mouthed back, a smirk on his
lips. Then he walked around the table, slowly, measuring me with each step he
took. I pressed a little harder against the wall, welcoming the coolness
seeping through my top.
He stopped right in front of
me, the cue in one hand, the other placed against the wall next to my head.
“You just cost me fifty bucks,” he drawled with a smile.
Anna Katmore
Anna Katmore grew up in Vienna. After she graduated from school at the age of 18, she moved to Austria’s country side.
Apart from traveling around the world, her one big passion is writing. She says about herself that she has been a storyteller all her life. Already in kindergarten, she came up with the most exotic fantasies and tales. Her teacher used to call her a liar. Anna calls it the cornerstone of her writing career.
Inspired by authors such as Lisa Jane Smith, Stepheny Meyer, and Becca Fitzpatrick, she started writing her first novel in 2009. Excessive reading and analyzing the structure and characters of her favorite books helped her develop the necessary skills and her very own voice. Because of her love for the language, she writes stories in English first, and when she finds a few weeks to squeeze into her tight writing schedule, she translates them into German later.
Her preferred genres are YA and fantasy romance.
In late 2012, Anna debuted with her novella PLAY WITH ME and later made this the first book of a series called Grover Beach Team. PLAY WITH ME was a finalist in its category for the RONE (Reward Of Novel Excellence) Awards, hosted by the InD’Tale magazine at the Romance Novel Convention 2013 in Las Vegas.
One funny fact: People always told Anna that she can’t make a living with being a writer. So when PLAY WITH ME came out and sold more than 500 units every day during the first four weeks, she was thunderstruck. It took her a few days to realize what was going on.
Anna is married and has a 12-year-old son. She loves her two cats, Lily and Emma, as much as she loves her family, tries to stay fit with ZUMBA dancing twice a week, and usually spends 86% of her day writing. The remaining time is used up for food and inevitable sleep.
If you still want to know more about me, my FAQ page is the right address for you. http://annakatmore.com/faq/
Anna Katmore
Anna Katmore grew up in Vienna. After she graduated from school at the age of 18, she moved to Austria’s country side.
Apart from traveling around the world, her one big passion is writing. She says about herself that she has been a storyteller all her life. Already in kindergarten, she came up with the most exotic fantasies and tales. Her teacher used to call her a liar. Anna calls it the cornerstone of her writing career.
Inspired by authors such as Lisa Jane Smith, Stepheny Meyer, and Becca Fitzpatrick, she started writing her first novel in 2009. Excessive reading and analyzing the structure and characters of her favorite books helped her develop the necessary skills and her very own voice. Because of her love for the language, she writes stories in English first, and when she finds a few weeks to squeeze into her tight writing schedule, she translates them into German later.
Her preferred genres are YA and fantasy romance.
In late 2012, Anna debuted with her novella PLAY WITH ME and later made this the first book of a series called Grover Beach Team. PLAY WITH ME was a finalist in its category for the RONE (Reward Of Novel Excellence) Awards, hosted by the InD’Tale magazine at the Romance Novel Convention 2013 in Las Vegas.
One funny fact: People always told Anna that she can’t make a living with being a writer. So when PLAY WITH ME came out and sold more than 500 units every day during the first four weeks, she was thunderstruck. It took her a few days to realize what was going on.
Anna is married and has a 12-year-old son. She loves her two cats, Lily and Emma, as much as she loves her family, tries to stay fit with ZUMBA dancing twice a week, and usually spends 86% of her day writing. The remaining time is used up for food and inevitable sleep.
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