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The Rush
Once he was football's hottest quarterback. Now he's Las Vegas's disgraced prince. A suspected criminal. A pariah. A bona fide badass. The fall from grace should crush any man, but Simon Smith has a vendetta against Veronica Greer, the woman who fired him. He can see through the good girl reputation that hides all her dirty. She holds his career in her hands, but she belongs to him. When she offers to repair his image to appeal to another team, he knows it's an attempt to deny themselves the inevitable: danger, greed, and destruction. Challenge accepted. The Rush is the second book in the sexy, addictive End Game collection. The game begins in The Penalty.
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265 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2018
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June 29, 2018FREE(limited time) | AMZ US | AMZ UK |
FREEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Blurb:
She's his enemy in the game.
Once he was football's hottest quarterback. Now he's Sin City's disgraced prince. A suspected criminal. A pariah. A bona fide badass. The fall from grace should crush any man, but Simon Smith has a vendetta against Veronica Greer, the woman who fired him.
He can see through the good girl reputation that hides all her dirty. She holds his career in her hands, but she belongs to him. When she offers to repair his image to appeal to another team, he knows it's an attempt to deny themselves the inevitable: danger, greed, and destruction.
Challenge accepted.
Books in End Game series are stand-alones, but most enjoyed if read in order:
Book 1: The Penalty
Book 2: The Rush
Book 3: The Brawler
Book 4: The Hook
Book 5: The Forgiven
FREEEEEEEEEEEE!
Stand-alone.
FREE(limited time) | AMZ US | AMZ UK |
Blurb:
She's his enemy in the game.
Once he was football's hottest quarterback. Now he's Sin City's disgraced prince. A suspected criminal. A pariah. A bona fide badass. The fall from grace should crush any man, but Simon Smith has a vendetta against Veronica Greer, the woman who fired him.
He can see through the good girl reputation that hides all her dirty. She holds his career in her hands, but she belongs to him. When she offers to repair his image to appeal to another team, he knows it's an attempt to deny themselves the inevitable: danger, greed, and destruction.
Challenge accepted.
Books in End Game series are stand-alones, but most enjoyed if read in order:
Book 1: The Penalty
Book 2: The Rush
Book 3: The Brawler
Book 4: The Hook
Book 5: The Forgiven
May 5, 2018
Simon Smith the sexy quarterback known as the "Blue-Eyed Badass" in football wants to play again. But no one is brave enough to sign him up, no matter how hard he tries to explain himself that he has nothing to do with those match-fixing allegations thrown at him.
Veronica Greer is a stunning, charming and all business when it comes to football. Being the GM of the Las Vegas Villains she takes her job seriously. She's a good girl in her parents' eyes because she follows and does whatever they told her to do. Easily manipulated by their parents that's how her sisters saw her. But Veronica is her own woman, evidently when she approached Simon to help him get back into the game. At first, Simon couldn't believe it but he know's Veronica can really help him in resurrecting his football career. Besides, he's already smitten by the beauty of Veronica. But before they work together Veronica laid some rules. But Simon said...
"Go ahead. Makes the rules, Veronica." His pitch lowered; her blood rushed. "But I've got a habit of breaking rules. Just remember that."
The Rush is equally well written just like the debut book of this author. There's no dull moment reading this book. It will keep you flipping pages. Simon and Veronica can really get you hot and bothered when it comes to their sexy moment. Simon really knows how to turn on a woman just by merely talking dirty. Veronica may have a strong personality but as you read along you'll discover there's more to her than being the obedient daughter.
Piper Westbrook got me hook, line, and sinker in her way of writing this series. I'm really glad to found a new author whose work I really like. I wish her more success and I'll be on the lookout when her next book comes out. If you like sports romance and all its sexiness, I recommend this one!
February 19, 2021
“What’s the future look like to you, Veronica?”
“The future looks like truth. No secrets. Just us. And love.”
Synopsis:
Accused of throwing games for profit, no one in the NFL wants anything to do with quarterback Simon Smith. However, Veronica believes his claim of innocence and wants to help him find a team that will offer him a job.
My Thoughts: The following are my thoughts about this book:
General:
- Trigger warning: none
- Setting: Las Vegas, Nevada
Characters:
Simon (”former” Quarterback for The Las Vegas Villains pro football team):
* The following words/phrases were used to describe Simon: Sin City’s devilishly handsome quarterback, rebellious attitude, troublemaking asshole, shatters rules, makes enemies, Blue-Eyed Badass
* Something to know about Simon:
- Family expected him to stay in Louisiana and run the cherry orchard. It created a rift when he chose to leave to pursue football. His dad died while he was at college, his mother died his first year in the NFL. He never mended the rift with his parents.
- The Villian's former owner bribed players to manipulate the outcome of games and Simon has been accused of being part of that scheme. As a result, no team wants him on their roster.
* A quote about Simon:
- "Simon had claimed that he was screwed over in a conspiracy, but no one proved it yet, and until they did, no team would stick their neck out for him. The man was a liability that not even the most desperate of franchises wanted to touch.”
Veronica (30, attorney and general manager of The Las Vegas Villains pro football team):
* The following words/phrases were used to describe Veronica: has never disappointed her parents, tired of being lonely, restless, multitasker, good at reading people, powerful, an expert at pleasing people, confident, a mystery, Ball Buster
* Something to know about Veronica:
- Married for 10 years and has been divorced for 13 months
- Founded Faith House, an organization to benefit at-risk teens
- Has never wanted to let her parents down
* A couple quotes about Veronica:
- “The Las Vegas Villains had christened her “the Ball Buster” because she fearlessly went toe-to-toe with men on a daily basis and knew what made them tick.”
- “Underneath the layers—the Ball Buster, the “celebrity” GM, and the darling, never-step-outside-the-lines Greer daughter—she was just a woman, a woman with a death grip on her perfect mask.”
Story Thoughts:
- The pen incident in the office was written oddly. No buildup to the actual act so it just didn't work. It came out of nowhere and wasn't sexy to me.
- Same was the case with the wedding/masturbating in the hair/cum on the cake incident. The actions just didn't seem authentic to the moment. I didn't get the sense Veronica couldn't control herself around Simon so the whole scene was off and quite over the top. I mean he pushes her to her knees and you think it's going to go a certain way and then he grabs her hair and masturbates in her hair??? Yes, I said her hair. 🤮Gross. Umm.....NOT sexy to me.
- The ex husband's behavior was peculiar. I didn't get his contribution to the story.
- I didn't think they had chemistry in the beginning. It got better halfway through the story
- I felt like there were random acts of sex that were thrown into scenes where it didn't make sense. Not just the two examples above, but it was pervasive
- Her parents....ugh.
- I liked the last half of the book better. It had a story rather than just random sex scenes
Quotes
“She was a fresh face in sports—a woman who posed for pictures for the paparazzi, was unflappable in press conferences, and could work the media in ways no one understood. And when it came to managing her parents’ franchise, she was full-throttle.”
“She’d learned at an early age how to read people and always knew just the right thing to say or do.”
“the guy had chivalrously ignored that a sex survival kit had fallen out of her purse. For that alone he deserved a few minutes of a listening ear.”
“In ways that were puzzling, Simon appealed to her.”
“never apologize when you’re not sorry”
“The future looks like truth. No secrets. Just us. And love.”
Synopsis:
Accused of throwing games for profit, no one in the NFL wants anything to do with quarterback Simon Smith. However, Veronica believes his claim of innocence and wants to help him find a team that will offer him a job.
My Thoughts: The following are my thoughts about this book:
General:
- Trigger warning: none
- Setting: Las Vegas, Nevada
Characters:
Simon (”former” Quarterback for The Las Vegas Villains pro football team):
* The following words/phrases were used to describe Simon: Sin City’s devilishly handsome quarterback, rebellious attitude, troublemaking asshole, shatters rules, makes enemies, Blue-Eyed Badass
* Something to know about Simon:
- Family expected him to stay in Louisiana and run the cherry orchard. It created a rift when he chose to leave to pursue football. His dad died while he was at college, his mother died his first year in the NFL. He never mended the rift with his parents.
- The Villian's former owner bribed players to manipulate the outcome of games and Simon has been accused of being part of that scheme. As a result, no team wants him on their roster.
* A quote about Simon:
- "Simon had claimed that he was screwed over in a conspiracy, but no one proved it yet, and until they did, no team would stick their neck out for him. The man was a liability that not even the most desperate of franchises wanted to touch.”
Veronica (30, attorney and general manager of The Las Vegas Villains pro football team):
* The following words/phrases were used to describe Veronica: has never disappointed her parents, tired of being lonely, restless, multitasker, good at reading people, powerful, an expert at pleasing people, confident, a mystery, Ball Buster
* Something to know about Veronica:
- Married for 10 years and has been divorced for 13 months
- Founded Faith House, an organization to benefit at-risk teens
- Has never wanted to let her parents down
* A couple quotes about Veronica:
- “The Las Vegas Villains had christened her “the Ball Buster” because she fearlessly went toe-to-toe with men on a daily basis and knew what made them tick.”
- “Underneath the layers—the Ball Buster, the “celebrity” GM, and the darling, never-step-outside-the-lines Greer daughter—she was just a woman, a woman with a death grip on her perfect mask.”
Story Thoughts:
- The pen incident in the office was written oddly. No buildup to the actual act so it just didn't work. It came out of nowhere and wasn't sexy to me.
- Same was the case with the wedding/masturbating in the hair/cum on the cake incident. The actions just didn't seem authentic to the moment. I didn't get the sense Veronica couldn't control herself around Simon so the whole scene was off and quite over the top. I mean he pushes her to her knees and you think it's going to go a certain way and then he grabs her hair and masturbates in her hair??? Yes, I said her hair. 🤮Gross. Umm.....NOT sexy to me.
- The ex husband's behavior was peculiar. I didn't get his contribution to the story.
- I didn't think they had chemistry in the beginning. It got better halfway through the story
- I felt like there were random acts of sex that were thrown into scenes where it didn't make sense. Not just the two examples above, but it was pervasive
- Her parents....ugh.
- I liked the last half of the book better. It had a story rather than just random sex scenes
Quotes
“She was a fresh face in sports—a woman who posed for pictures for the paparazzi, was unflappable in press conferences, and could work the media in ways no one understood. And when it came to managing her parents’ franchise, she was full-throttle.”
“She’d learned at an early age how to read people and always knew just the right thing to say or do.”
“the guy had chivalrously ignored that a sex survival kit had fallen out of her purse. For that alone he deserved a few minutes of a listening ear.”
“In ways that were puzzling, Simon appealed to her.”
“never apologize when you’re not sorry”
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