Title: Game On
Series: A Lewis Creek Novel
Author: Michelle Smith
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Release Date: January 2016
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Eric
Perry is Lewis Creek's resident bad boy. When he’s named the new starting
pitcher in a town that thinks baseball is everything and he is nothing but
trouble, Eric knows he has to clean up his act. Lay low, his coach tells him—at
least long enough to actually pitch a game. But when a fight with his
teammate lands him in jail yet again, his season may be over before it
starts…until his next door neighbor, Bri, comes to the rescue. Making a deal
with Eric's coach, she offers him one final chance at redemption: community
service.
Bri Johnson hadn’t talked to Eric in months. Her boyfriend
Matt, Eric’s teammate and the school’s golden boy, didn’t like her to be around
Eric. Matt didn’t like a lot of things Bri did or said or wore, which is why
she ends it with him the same night he and Eric get into a fight—a fight over
her. That night is the reason Bri offers to take Eric with her to the community
center each week, so he can keep his spot on the team. But spending time
with Eric only makes her life worse, as scandalous rumors start flying and Matt
refuses to let her move on.
While Eric and Bri work closely together at the center, old
stories of stargazing, first kisses, and a time when they were friends start to
re-connect them. As they open up their secrets and their hearts to each other,
they start to see that they are more than what other people think they are—and
even more than what they think about themselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle
Smith was born and raised in North Carolina, where she developed a healthy
appreciation for college football, sweet tea, front porches, and a well-placed
“y’all.” She’s a lover of all things happy, laughs way too much, and fully
believes that a little bit of kindness goes a long way. Michelle lives near the
Carolina coast with her family.
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REST OF THE SERIES SO FAR
Series: A Lewis Creek Novel
Author: Michelle Smith
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Release Date: 21st April 2015
In the small town of Lewis
Creek, baseball is everything.
Especially for all-star pitcher Austin Braxton, who has a one-way ticket out of town with his scholarship to a top university. All that stands between him and a new start is one final season. But when Austin starts flunking Chemistry, his picture-perfect future is in jeopardy. A failing grade means zero playing time, and zero playing time means no scholarship.
Enter Marisa Marlowe, the new girl in town who gets a job at his momma’s flower shop. Not only is Marisa some home-schooled super-genius, she’s also a baseball fanatic and more than willing to help Austin study. As the two grow closer, there’s something about Marisa that makes Austin want more than just baseball and out of Lewis Creek—he wants a future with her. But Marisa has a past that still haunts her, one that she ran all the way to South Carolina to escape.
As Austin starts to peel back the layers of Marisa’s pain, it forces him to look beyond the facade of himself and everyone he thought he knew in his town. What he sees instead is that in a small town like Lewis Creek, maybe baseball isn’t everything—maybe it is just the thing that ties them all together.
Especially for all-star pitcher Austin Braxton, who has a one-way ticket out of town with his scholarship to a top university. All that stands between him and a new start is one final season. But when Austin starts flunking Chemistry, his picture-perfect future is in jeopardy. A failing grade means zero playing time, and zero playing time means no scholarship.
Enter Marisa Marlowe, the new girl in town who gets a job at his momma’s flower shop. Not only is Marisa some home-schooled super-genius, she’s also a baseball fanatic and more than willing to help Austin study. As the two grow closer, there’s something about Marisa that makes Austin want more than just baseball and out of Lewis Creek—he wants a future with her. But Marisa has a past that still haunts her, one that she ran all the way to South Carolina to escape.
As Austin starts to peel back the layers of Marisa’s pain, it forces him to look beyond the facade of himself and everyone he thought he knew in his town. What he sees instead is that in a small town like Lewis Creek, maybe baseball isn’t everything—maybe it is just the thing that ties them all together.
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