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A Taste for Speed
Retired NASCAR champion Steve Clayton is no stranger to risk. Still at the top of his game, the world-renowned wine grower is willing to take chances—in everything but love. Then he meets Sarah Stanton. The fiercely independent college professor is totally different from the women he usually dates. Yet he can't get her out of his mind….
Sarah has given up on finding the right man to share her life and give her the child she yearns for. The former racecar driver and paparazzi-loving playboy is wrong for her in every way. So why is Steve pursuing her as if this were the most important race of his life?
Sarah has given up on finding the right man to share her life and give her the child she yearns for. The former racecar driver and paparazzi-loving playboy is wrong for her in every way. So why is Steve pursuing her as if this were the most important race of his life?
- GenresRomance
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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March 2, 2020
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She had to be a good fifteen years older than the women he dated. At fifty, he could—and did—date twenty something-year-old lingerie models and actresses.
The couple had been together since they'd been teens, and while Steve had bolted from his marriages in the bad times, these two had stuck it out.
Her computer's screen was rife with shots of Steve and an endless string of sleek, pretty females. He seemed to have his own Girl of the Week club.
There were some variations to what was apparently Steve's favored theme of wide-eyed youth. Hair and skin tones varied, but all were clearly under thirty and surgically enhanced.
He hadn't been part of an official couple in almost a decade, when one of the original chicklets had ditched him for some Irish punk guitarist.
She wanted a child very much. To hear someone she was growing to love say that he was done with children, even in a joking fashion, didn't sit well.
In the photo, Steve stood in some party venue with a wineglass in his right hand and his left arm draped around the standard model of underdressed and overen-dowed female. She was looking up at him adoringly, and he was giving her the same slow smile Sarah had warmed under so many times over the past several weeks.
There was a second page to the document. In this photo, the young woman sat on Steve's lap and appeared to be laughing at something he said. Behind Steve and the chicklet was a low Stage with two musicians, and behind them was a neon sign in sloped script that read Blue Note. Last week, when he'd been in Chicago, Steve has said something about blues music.
It's all just part of the game. ... Those words had been a jolt back to reality. What would never be okay was his lack of real interest in changing his external playboy persona. He'd shrugged it off so cavalierly. Steve Clayton could not be the man she needed in her—and perhaps one day, her child's—life.
he would be the man with the broad grin and the young women. To him, it was simply part of the game, with no deeper meaning.
She'd been cheated on by not one, but two men she'd loved.
Steve was back in full swing, with new pictures of him with fresh and perky chicklets popping up daily.
Her garden was complete, and she was pregnant.
*This is my baby, my dream. It wouldn't be fair to dump all of this on Steve right now."
January 16, 2016
A Taste For Speed by Dorien Kelly
Harlequin NASCAR Library
NASCAR: Hidden Legacies Book 10
Steve Clayton is a retired NASCAR driver. Now that he’s fifty and has bought a winery he’s looking forward to a quieter life which is opposite of his public appearances as a playboy. While hosting a wine tasting at the racetrack he notices a woman very different from his usual young women. Different enough that he has to get to know her better.
Sarah Stanton’s new teaching position has her going to NASCAR races with Dean and Patsy Grosso. After two bad marriages the last type of guy she needs is someone like the hunky playboy she meets at her first race. And her dream to have a child don’t quite fit in with his lifestyle. Can the quiet life of a professor and the busy life of a rich playboy come together in a happy ending?
This book introduces more characters who will be in some of the next books. In book eleven, Force of Nature, Steve’s new partner Damon Tieri meets NASCAR driver Shelly Green who has been driving in the Nationwide series for Sanford Racing. The mystery of the murder from book one and the Grosso kidnapping continue to be unsolved.
http://justjudysjumbles.blogspot.com/...
Harlequin NASCAR Library
NASCAR: Hidden Legacies Book 10
Steve Clayton is a retired NASCAR driver. Now that he’s fifty and has bought a winery he’s looking forward to a quieter life which is opposite of his public appearances as a playboy. While hosting a wine tasting at the racetrack he notices a woman very different from his usual young women. Different enough that he has to get to know her better.
Sarah Stanton’s new teaching position has her going to NASCAR races with Dean and Patsy Grosso. After two bad marriages the last type of guy she needs is someone like the hunky playboy she meets at her first race. And her dream to have a child don’t quite fit in with his lifestyle. Can the quiet life of a professor and the busy life of a rich playboy come together in a happy ending?
This book introduces more characters who will be in some of the next books. In book eleven, Force of Nature, Steve’s new partner Damon Tieri meets NASCAR driver Shelly Green who has been driving in the Nationwide series for Sanford Racing. The mystery of the murder from book one and the Grosso kidnapping continue to be unsolved.
http://justjudysjumbles.blogspot.com/...
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