No Time to Explain
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
A baseball pro learns a few tricks from a beautiful dog trainer in this beach town romance by the USA Today bestselling author of No Tan Lines.
Richmond Rogues’ left-fielder Joe “Zoo” Zooker has his own ritual for the start of spring training—a weekend of pure pleasure, including as many pretty faces and curvaceous bodies as he can charm into his bed. After that, he’s all about baseball, especially with hungry minor leaguers just waiting to take his place. But when a beautiful woman with a smart mouth brushes off his flirting, he’s determined to go to bat as often as it takes to win a smile aimed only at him.
Stevie may be new to the beach town of Barefoot William, but she’s seen plenty of hot and hunky charmers like Zoo before. Managing her aunt’s doggie daycare business, she’s up to her ears in rowdy puppies—and she doesn’t need a lifelong hound like Zoo breaking her heart. Still, there’s no denying the attraction between them, and as spring training heats up, lust suddenly begins to look a lot like love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Angell returns to the Richmond Rogues baseball team (last seen in No Breaking My Heart) as it begins its annual ritual of spring training at the beach town of Barefoot William, Fla. Brash left fielder Joe Zooker loves the beginning of the season and enjoys the posse of groupies who follow him adoringly around the boardwalk. When Joe encounters pretty Stevie Reynolds, who's been falsely accused of shoplifting, he pretends to be her boyfriend and uses his star power to save her from arrest. Ungrateful, she only gives him a hard time in return; she finds him attractive but is suspicious of his playboy ways. Stevie's sassy attitude intrigues Joe, and soon his irresistible Rottweiler, Turbo, is boarding at Unleashed, a fancy dog kennel owned by Stevie's aunt Twyla. To help Twyla stay in business, Joe becomes her tenant and agrees to pose for a wedding photo shoot with Stevie to raise money for the kennel, which leads to a passionate night together and eventually to true love. The misunderstanding that keeps Joe and Stevie apart seems absurd, as is the likelihood that a heartthrob professional athlete would quit philandering cold turkey, but these are understandable flaws in a series entry that successfully combines Angell's favorite elements of sports, romance, humor, and cute dogs.
