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    Off the Hook
    Off the Hook
    Off the Hook
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    Off the Hook

    By Dania Voss

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    She was headed to college. He was an up and coming pitcher in the majors. Life had other plans and threw them a curve ball...

    Abbey Jayne has always been a bit of a nerd. She prefers books and computers over people. Especially boys. She hasn’t worried much about dating and is content taking a backseat to her sister Cassie, the social butterfly. Abbey’s headed to college in the fall anyway.

    Everything changes after she reluctantly agrees to join Cassie and her boyfriend for dinner. Hunky pitcher for the Chicago Cobras, Luke Stryker is also coming along. He seems larger than life and Abbey’s surprised by her attraction to him.

    At twenty, Luke Stryker is already one of the best pitchers in the majors and the sole heir to his family’s fortune. His world turns upside down when he meets Abbey. Right away, he senses she’s special. That she’s meant to be his.

    With their relationship growing quickly, Luke asks Abbey to join him on the road for the adventure of a lifetime before her classes start in the fall, but she’s torn about what she should do. Her mother is upset and Luke’s manager thinks she’s in the way. Abbey believes she and Luke have a future together, but it won’t be easy.

    Can young love survive the stresses of family, college, life on the road, and everything that goes along with being a professional athlete?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvernight Publishing
    Release dateJun 26, 2019
    ISBN9781773399911
    Off the Hook
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    Dania Voss

    Int'l bestseller and award winning author Dania Voss writes compelling, sexy romance with personality, heat, and heart. Born in Rome, Italy and raised in Chicagoland, she uses her background to create stories with authentic, engaging characters. A favorite with romance readers, her debut novel “On The Ropes,” the first in her Windy City Nights series, became an international bestseller.The second and third installments in the Windy City Nights series, “The Warriors' Whisper” and "Hannah's Bliss" received 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite ®. "Hannah's Bliss" was voted April 2019’s Book Of The Month at The TBR Pile. All three novels in the series were designated as Recommended Reads in the 2019 Author Shout Reader Ready Awards. “Hannah’s Bliss” earned an award in the Oklahoma Romance Writers of America’s 2020 International Digital Awards contest, and won 1st place in the 2021 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards (NERFA), in the Erotic Romance category. Dania has also contributed stories to multiple romance anthology collections.Dania’s work has been highlighted on NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, and she has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Southern Writers Magazine, and Chicago Entrepreneurs Magazine (selected as the #8 Top Chicago Author in 2021). The Windy City Nights series is going to the moon in 2022, as part of the Writers on the Moon project.When she’s not writing, you can find Dania at a sporting event, a rock concert, or at the movies (usually a comedy).

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      Off the Hook - Dania Voss

      Published by EVERNIGHT PUBLISHING ® at Smashwords

      www.evernightpublishing.com

      Copyright© 2019 Dania Voss

      ISBN: 978-1-77339-991-1

      Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

      Editor: Karyn White

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      DEDICATION

      I’d like to acknowledge my wonderful publisher, Evernight and the Evernight author community, especially Laura M. Baird, for their support and encouragement at my first attempt at writing a short story. Many thanks go to Karyn White, my editor, for helping me make this story the best it can be.

      I’m dedicating Off the Hook to my father who sadly passed away shortly before I received my first round of edits. He was so incredibly proud when I became a published author. I intend to continue making him proud with future books and other projects moving forward.

      OFF THE HOOK

      Windy City Nights (Inception)

      Dania Voss

      Copyright © 2019

      Chapter One

      June 23, 2007—ten years before On the Ropes

      Abbey Jayne blew out an exasperated breath as she held up yet another dress, hoping for her older sister Cassie’s approval. This was the third, and, she hoped, the last. A pretty white summery sleeveless number with a lovely flowered print that ended just above the knee. If Cassie didn’t approve, she’d tell her to take a flying leap. How she’d let her sister convince her to go on this not-really-a-double-date, she wasn’t sure.

      Abbey held her breath as her sister’s baby blues, nearly identical to her own, analyzed her third dress choice. Please let this be the one so we can get on with it.

      When Cassie nodded her approval and smiled, Abbey sighed, relieved. "Finally. If you said no to this one, I would tell you to forget it and stay home with Mom and Dad and order pizza for dinner."

      With her hair and makeup perfectly done up already and wearing a lavender robe, Cassie rolled her eyes, flung her glossy blonde locks over her shoulders, and rummaged through Abbey’s closet in search of shoes to go with her now approved not-really-a-double-date dress.

      She emerged a minute later with a pair of strappy, white, high heeled sandals perfect for said dress. Only a year older than Abbey at nineteen, Cassie had a fashion sense Abbey sorely lacked. A professed computer nerd, Abbey felt at home in jeans, a t-shirt, and makeup free.

      Shaking her head, Cassie handed her the sandals and placed her hands on her hips. "Nope. You agreed, and Jake and Luke will be here soon. You can’t back out, Abbey. Come on. Please don’t back out now. You need to come out with us."

      Abbey carefully placed her dress on her bed with the sandals beside it. Showered and in her own robe, a powder blue one, she turned to her sister, anger simmering. "It’s yours and Jake’s six-month anniversary. Why would I or Luke need to be there?"

      Cassie rolled her eyes. Because, like you, Luke needs a break. All he does is study, practice, and play. You’ve got a couple of months before you start classes at U of I. Don’t you want to have fun, some adventures before you buckle down for the next four years?

      Abbey shrugged. She was shy, unlike her sister, the social butterfly. She preferred to read and loved working with computers. Activities that didn’t involve other people. She was a computer science major at U of I Champaign-Urbana, for Pete’s sake! But her sister had a point. Her life up to this point had been boring, primarily focused on her studies. But why did Luke Stryker, of all people, have to join them?

      I know. You’re right. But doesn’t Luke have better things to do? Why would he want to go out with us? She’d bet he could have his pick of dates. He was two years older than she was, rich, and a pitcher for his uncle’s baseball team, the Chicago Cobras. He was super cute, too. Six feet tall with golden blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and dimples. Luke Strike ‘em out Stryker seemed larger than life when she saw him play on TV. She was just Cassie’s dorky younger sister.

      Cassie frowned and held both her hands tight. Are you nervous about meeting him?

      Abbey’s face heated. She was awkward with boys. And Luke was a man. A professional athlete. She bet he wasn’t still a virgin. Two seconds after Cassie had met Jake six months ago Cassie had lost her virginity.

      You don’t have to be. Luke’s really nice. Don’t let what you’ve seen on TV influence you. The players have to ham it up for the fans, you know? And with the team’s children’s foundation and his uncle’s real estate firm, they’re in the public eye a lot. Don’t let that intimidate you, Cassie said, like it was no big deal.

      Abbey’s stomach churned. "Thanks. I feel so much better now." She pulled away from Cassie’s clutch and sat

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