💞A broken boy saved by a poor girl
Sep 06, 2021 4:54 am
I'm a sucker for a broken boy, lost and grieving from childhood and having him saved by the love of a generous-hearted girl.
💞Hello my empathetic reader friends!
Brick, aka Rick Blanick, is broken and lost since he lost his mother. He never wants to be vulnerable to that kind of loss again. Can Nyla, a sensual, caring girl he considers his enemy and off-limits forever in spite of his attraction and undeniable connection to her, reach him? Notorious Man on Campus answers this question--in about 80,000 words.
The love and soul shattering joy is all in the details!🏈
Check out the Exclusive Excerpt below!
At SQ's House -
After hurricane Ida calmed down and passed through, dumping four inches of rain, we had some well-deserved picture-perfect weather, with clear dry air, warm days and cool nights.
Good enough for a night out doors for dinner and listening to a band with good friends.💞
What Am I Reading? This week I'm listening to Hard to Score by K. Bromberg, a hot hockey romance and tres enjoyable! (pardon my french)
How about you? Anything different this week?
If you need recs for new reads, make sure you check out the romance reading features at the bottom!
Something to Think About
🏒💜 How about hockey romance?
The thing is, I'm a sports nut and I love football most of all. Hockey is pretty good, but... Why is it that I, like many other romance readers love me a hockey romance over football any day of the week?
And this romantic preference isn't limited to fiction--I married a hockey player.
There's just something about that hockey mentality, the fact that they aren't worshipped and genuflected to the same way football players are, the fact that hockey players aren't as full of themselves, necessarily, pros don't make as much money and they're tougher than the steel blades they were on their feet. Maybe dealing with ice cold conditions all the time gives them warm, generous hearts along with their hardy minds and bodies.
Whatever it is, it's a thing.
What grabs you about hockey romance?
Fact: There are disproportionately more hockey romance novels in the Amazon top 100 sports romances. 🏒 💜
What You Get in This Newsletter:
➜➜ Something to Think About: How about hockey romance?
➜➜ SQ's Special Feature Book: Boston Brawlers 3 Book Set
➜➜ Featured REVIEW: Big Man on Campus!
➜➜ Exclusive Excerpt #3 - Notorious Man on Campus
➜➜ NEW COVER! for Bad Man on Campus
➜➜ Book Fairs featuring sizzling romance!
➜➜ Special Featured Authors!
➜➜ My endless appreciation for your support 💞
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✍️My Writing Progress
2021 so far: 350,929 words, 4.3 Novels, 1 Novella
2021 Goal: 515,000 words, 7 Novels, 1 Novella
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Stephanie Queen Special Feature!
Boston Brawlers 3 Book Set
3 hockey romance novels in one mouth-watering set!
Read for free in the
Amazon Prime Program!
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Kindle Unlimited!
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Featured Review: Big Man on Campus
✯✯✯✯✯"What a story!!! Jack was one of those characters that wasn’t the easiest to like...but he really grew as a person... and before I knew it I was losing a piece of my heart to him!"
--SylviaL, Amazon Reviewer
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EXCLUSIVE Excerpt #3
Notorious Man on Campus
A broken boy faces his worst nightmare, his enemy, an irresistible forbidden girl.
Nyla
Dooley’s visit to my closet was the disaster showcase I knew it would be, but he’s insanely kind behind his show of shallowness and frippery. Arriving at my class in hospitality management on day two, I face a room filled with the fabled elite snobs of my mamma’s stories and this is a whole other matter.
A dozen sorority girls are dressed in obviously expensive clothes and shoes. The handbags? They look pricey too, but I wouldn’t recognize any of the designer labels if they jumped up and plastered themselves to my forehead. Or to my too-big boobs. I feel like a security risk sitting in the company of millions of dollars-worth of clothes and accessories.
The sorority pins alone glare at me in accusation with gemstones that are most definitely not cubic zirconia or any other man-made stone. Before the nausea of feeling like the other, the one thing that doesn’t belong in this picture grips me, I straighten my spine in a well-practiced move from high school. Though I have to admit, SPU makes Fox Chapel High look like the ghetto. I look like I’m from the ghetto. Maybe because I am.
But so what, Nyla? You’re smart and talented and not hanging on the coattails of your parents—or parent. Your mother's coattails?
No. I need to get as far away from her coattails as possible before I drown in resentment and shame. Not shame because we could be classified as poor, but it’s mamma's attitude that I’m afraid will get to me.
One lesson I learned well from Mamma, though she never intended to teach me, is that resentment is poison to a happy life. So I put on a big smile and look around the classroom for a girl with a friendly soul under all the sparkly expensive window dressing. But before my eyes land on such a girl, a pinched-looking girl who’s soul obviously suffers from the weight of her family legacy approaches me.
“You’re a scholarship student, right? Welcome to SPU.” She doesn’t wait for a reply and gives me a brilliant smile as she looks me over with blatant curiosity. She’s wearing a pin from Kappa Kappa Gamma and I realize her house is down the street from BMOC House. But her unabashed stare makes me feel more like a sociology experiment than a potential sorority sister.
“Thank you. I’m Nyla—”
“I know. Dooley mentioned you.” What the heck did Dooley tell her about me? She doesn’t give me her name as she looks over my clothes as if searching for some hidden label or other redeeming sign.
“And your name is?” I ask. She returns her gaze to my face after dismissing my flip-flops with a tighter version of her smile.
“Lara," she says. "Is it true you’re living at BMOC House?” Her curiosity brims over. But heck, we’re having a conversation.
“Yes. I just moved in—”
“Have you met Brick? Have you seen him in his boxers yet?
Relief fills me when it shouldn’t. I should be angry or embarrassed or something, but I’m not. I had no good answer to her question about Brick in his boxers and agree with her assessment about my luck status. Being at BMOC House, or at SPU at all, I’m riding the edge between lucky and unlucky. Brick and his attitude could send me over either side into either heaven or hell, a dream or a nightmare.
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NEW COVER REVEAL!
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Hope you're enjoying your summer as it winds down and taking time for yourself.
Warmest Regards,
