Head of the class...
Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.
The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden boy — he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.
Then...Callie Carpenter comes home.
And knocks him right on his tight end zone.
Back to school...
Callie has a pretty sweet life herself...on the other side of the country. But circumstances — that she'd prefer to never speak of again — have brought her back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high school.
Now she's facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness, and drama galore...and that's just the teachers.
Just like old times...
When Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance - and then has to stop herself from jumping him.
Good friends are all they can ever be.
Or...these teachers just might end up getting schooled — hard — by love.
Includes a special bonus interview with the author! ©2018 Emma Chase (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.
Excerpt
I sit down in the desk chair and lean
back, balancing on the hind legs like my mother always told me not to. I fold
my hands behind my head, put my feet on the desk, and sigh with contentment.
Because life is sweet.
It’s going to be a great year.
They’re not all great—some years suck
donkey balls—my best players graduate and it’s a rebuilding year, which means a
lot of ‘L’s’ on the board, or sometimes you just get a crappy crop of students.
But this year’s going to be awesome—I can feel it.
And then, something catches my eye
outside the window in the parking lot.
Someone.
And my balance goes to shit.
I swing my arms like a baby bird, hang
in the air for half a second…and then topple back in a heap. Not my smoothest
move.
But right now, it doesn’t matter.
I pull myself up to my feet, step over
the chair towards the window, all the while peering at the blond in the navy
blue pencil skirt walking across the parking lot.
And the ass that, even from this
distance—I would know anywhere.
Callaway Carpenter. Holy shit.
She looks amazing, even more beautiful
than the last time I saw her…than the first time I saw her. You never forget
your first. Isn’t that what they say? Callie was my first and for a long time,
I thought she’d be my only.
The first time I laid my eyes on her,
it felt like getting sacked by a three-hundred pound defensive lineman with an
axe to grind. She looked like an angel. Golden hair framing petite, delicate
features—a heart-shaped face, a dainty jaw, a cute nose and these big, round,
blinking green eyes I wanted to drown in.
Wait…back up…that’s not actually true.
That’s a lie.
I was fifteen when I met Callie, and
fifteen year old boys are notorious perverts, so the first thing I noticed
about her wasn’t her face. It was her tits—they were full and round and
absolutely perfect.
The second thing I noticed was her
mouth—shiny and pink with a bee-stung bottom lip. In a blink, a hundred
fantasies had gone through my head of what she could do with that mouth…what I
could show her how to do.
Then I saw her angel face. That’s how
it happened.
And just like that—I was gone.
We were “the” couple in high
school—Brenda and Eddie from that Billy Joel song. The star quarterback and the
theater queen.
She was the love of my life, before I
had any fucking idea what love was…and then, still, even after I did.
We broke up when she went away to
college and I stayed here in Jersey—couldn’t survive the distance. It was a
quiet ending, when I went out to visit her in California, no drama or
hysterics. Just some hard truths, tears, one last night together in her dorm
room bed, and a morning of goodbye.
She never really came home again after
that. At least, not long enough for us to run into each other. I haven’t seen
her in years—in a lifetime.
But she’s here now.
At my school.
About the Author
Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.
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