Title: The Hook Up
Author: Kristen Callihan
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Genre: New Adult
Summary
The rules: no kissing on the
mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling in
love
Anna Jones just wants to finish
college and figure out her life. Falling for star quarterback Drew Baylor is
certainly not on her to do list. Confident and charming, he lives in the
limelight and is way too gorgeous for his own good. If only she could ignore
his heated stares and stop thinking about doing hot and dirty things with him.
Easy right?
Too bad he’s committed to making
her break every rule…
Football has been good to Drew.
It’s given him recognition, two National Championships, and the Heisman. But
what he really craves is sexy yet prickly Anna Jones. Her cutting humor and
blatant disregard for his fame turns him on like nothing else. But there’s one
problem: she's shut him down. Completely.
That is until a chance encounter
leads to the hottest sex of their lives, along with the possibility of
something great. Unfortunately, Anna wants it to remain a hook up. Now it’s up
to Drew to tempt her with more: more sex, more satisfaction, more time with
him. Until she’s truly hooked. It's a good thing Drew knows all about winning.
All’s fair in love and
football…Game on
My mother once told me that the
most important moment in my life wouldn’t be when I won the National
Championship or even the Super Bowl. It would be when I fell in love.
Life, she insisted, is how you
live it and who you live it with, not what you do to make a living. Given that
she told me this when I was sixteen, I basically rolled my eyes and worked on
practicing my pass fakes.
But my mother was insistent.
My mom, it turns out, was wrong
in one regard. Love, when it came for me, did not creep. No, it walked up to
me, bold as you please, you know, just in case I wasn’t paying attention. It
did, however, slap me upside my head.
And while I’d be happy to tell my
mom that she was right about that, she’s dead. A fact that hurts even more now
that I’ve been struck down. More like shot down. Cut off at the knees. Totally
fucked. Whatever you want to call this disaster. Because the object of my
affection hates me.
I am man enough to acknowledge
that the cluster fuck that is my current love life is entirely my fault. I
wasn’t prepared for Anna Jones.
I still cringe at the memory of
when I first laid eyes on her at the beginning of the semester. Being late for
class, I’d rushed to a seat in the back row, and was trying to remain
unnoticed. I can’t go anywhere on campus without getting attention. And though
it sounds like an awesome thing, it gets tiring.
When the roll call reached the
back row, a soft voice, rich and thick as maple syrup, slid over me.
“Anna Jones.”
Just her name. That was all she’d
said. It was like a hot finger stroking down my spine. My head snapped up. And
there she was, so fucking pretty that I couldn’t think straight. I might as
well have been sacked.
Breathless, my head ringing, I
could only gape. I’m not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was
more like oh, hell-yes-please, I’ll have that. With a helping of
right-the-fuck-now on the side.
Thinking maybe I was overtired
and simply overreacting to something that wasn’t really there, I stared at Anna
Jones and tried to make sense of my extreme reaction.
As if feeling my gaze, she’d
turned, and fucking hell… Her eyes were wide, almost cat-like, with the corners
tilting up just a bit. At first, those eyes appeared brown, but they were
really bottle green. And so clear. And annoyed. She glared at me. I didn’t
care. One word was playing a loop in my head: mine.
I don’t remember the rest of the
class. I watched Anna Jones like a condemned man getting his last view of the
setting sun. While she tried to ignore me. Admirably.
The second class ended I shot up,
and so did she. We nearly collided in the middle of the aisle. And then it all
fell to shit.
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Author Biography
Kristen Callihan is an author
because there is nothing else she’d rather do. She is a three-time RITA
nominee, and winner of two RT Reviewer’s Choice awards. Her novels have
garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and the Library Journal, as
well as being awarded top picks by many reviewers. Her debut book FIRELIGHT
received RT Magazine’s Seal of Excellence, was named a best book of the year by
Library Journal, best book of Spring 2012 by Publisher’s Weekly, and was named
the best romance book of 2012 by ALA RUSA. When she is not writing, she is reading.
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