Crossing the Line
by Nicola Marsh
(World Apart #1)
Publication date: May 8th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
~Synopsis~
Laying it all on the line for love…
Mia Cresswell is tired of being good.
Achieving geek status at college doesn’t equate with fun. So when she heads home to her dad’s tennis academy in Santa Monica on spring break, she’s determined to be bad. And hot Aussie tennis star Kye Sheldon is just the guy to help her do it.
However, Kye’s troubled past continues to dog him and attending the Cresswell Tennis Academy is his last chance at the big time. He can’t afford to screw up…by screwing the boss’s daughter.
But Mia and Kye’s relationship is much more than a vacation fling.
Will it be game, set, match, when the truth is revealed?
Or will Mia and Kye have a real shot at love all?
Mia Cresswell is tired of being good.
Achieving geek status at college doesn’t equate with fun. So when she heads home to her dad’s tennis academy in Santa Monica on spring break, she’s determined to be bad. And hot Aussie tennis star Kye Sheldon is just the guy to help her do it.
However, Kye’s troubled past continues to dog him and attending the Cresswell Tennis Academy is his last chance at the big time. He can’t afford to screw up…by screwing the boss’s daughter.
But Mia and Kye’s relationship is much more than a vacation fling.
Will it be game, set, match, when the truth is revealed?
Or will Mia and Kye have a real shot at love all?
~Excerpt~
I had no idea why I asked the uptight princess to
stay.
I should've let her stomp off in a snit after her
shitfit.
But there was something about the way she'd stood up
to me that had me intrigued.
I'd bet my left ball she was daddy's little angel.
She'd virtually confirmed it when she'd blurted all that stuff about her
private life.
So her tough girl act, when she'd shoved me around,
made me admire her. She had spirit. Fire in the belly, as my mum used to say.
But I couldn't afford to think about Mum now. Not when
Mia stared at me with those all-seeing, all-knowing eyes.
"Tell me why you want me to stay," she said,
thrusting her chin up a little, daring me to drive her away again.
Considering she'd semi-lifted me out of my black mood,
not a chance.
How long since I'd hung out with anyone, let alone a
girl? After I'd been booted out of the tennis academy in Sydney for busting
that bozo's nose, I'd spent a month at my dad's mansion in Double Bay, on what
he'd labeled a good behavior bond.
Hadn't been so bad, as my dad was on location shooting
an action flick in Darwin for three of those weeks. And that final week, he'd
made arrangements for me to come here.
Woop-de-fucking-do.
"Honestly?"
She rolled her eyes. "Wouldn't have asked if I
didn't want an honest answer."
I stepped forward, almost invading her personal space.
"I've been in a pretty shitty place lately and you've distracted me."
"So you want me to stick around and distract you
some more." She pressed her palms to her heart. "Lucky me."
"I also like that you're a smart-arse."
"I love your accent." Her lips curved into a
sexy grin that made me want to step even closer. "Arrrrse," she said,
and giggled.
I found myself chuckling along with her. "Let me
guess. Your only experience with Australia comes from drooling over the
Hemsworth brothers."
To my surprise, she blushed. "I may have seen The
Hunger Games five times." She held up both hands, fingers spread.
"And The Avengers ten. What of it?"
"Means you've got a thing for Aussie guys."
I bumped her with my shoulder. "Lucky me."
She wrinkled her nose, but her blush intensified,
making me want to touch her cheeks to see if they felt as hot as they looked.
"You'll be the exception to the rule."
"Yet you're here with me now instead of at that
party?" I grinned. "Interesting."
Our gazes locked for a long moment and I felt a jolt
of something … powerful. I could attribute it to hormones, considering I hadn't
got laid in six months, but the spark in her dark eyes made me want to do more
than chat with her.
~Author
Bio ~
USA TODAY bestselling author Nicola Marsh writes flirty fiction with flair for adults and spooky, supernatural fiction for young adults.She has published 45 books with Harlequin, Entangled Publishing and indie, and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.
Her first mainstream contemporary romance, BUSTED IN BOLLYWOOD (Entangled Publishing) released to rave reviews, including a nomination for RWA's RBY, Romantic Book of the Year 2012.
Her first indie-pubbed contemporary romance CRAZY LOVE released September 2012, is a Barnes & Noble bestseller, and was nominated for a 2012 ARRA award.
Her young adult debut, BANISH, a supernatural thriller featuring Wicca, spirits and murder, released August 2013 with Harlequin Teen.
Her young adult fantasy series with Month9Books launched November 2013 with SCION OF THE SUN.
Her debut new adult novel BEFORE releases December 2013.
She's also a Waldenbooks, Bookscan and Barnes & Noble bestseller, a 2013 RBY and National Readers' Choice Award winner, is a multiple finalist for awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, Booksellers' Best, Golden Quill, Laurel Wreath, More than Magic and has won several CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Awards.
~Author
Links~
FANTASIES
Why do I love writing so much?
Because I get to live in a fantasy world.
I’m lucky that my characters take me
to some pretty wild places and do some equally wild things…
But I’m also an avid reader. I devour books; have ever since I was a kid.
I read widely, across genres and
could happily spend a day/week/month curled up with my nose in a book.
For me, part of the appeal of reading
is getting engrossed in another world, being so absorbed in the characters’
lives that I’m almost there alongside them, laughing and crying and feeling
their pain.
It’s sheer pleasure to be swept up in
the fantasy as I turn the pages, eager to reach the end yet reluctant to do so
because I love the story so much.
In CROSSING THE LINE, Mia gets to
live out one of her fantasies: geek girl turns bad. And thanks to Kye, the sexy
Aussie bad boy, the fantasy just gets better and better!
Embracing fantasies can be liberating
and exciting. But it’s those deeper fantasies, the emotional ones we crave like
security and love and recognition that can be the most challenging of all.
Now it’s over to you.
Share a fantasy (keep it
clean, please!) in the comments. It
could be a fantasy date, fantasy dinner, fantasy destination, fantasy
celebrity.
Go ahead, use your
imagination. J
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