Teardrop Shot, an all-new sexy and angst filled sports romance from New York Times bestselling author Tijan is available now!
I asked for his criteria for bed buddies–that’s the PG version.
He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies. And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start.
Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder.
Gorgeous. Cocky. Loved by the nation.
He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.
Correction: where I work again, because I was fired from my last job.
And dumped.
And I might have a tiny bit of baggage, but that’s normal. Right?
Reese and I shouldn’t have become friends. We shouldn’t have become roommates.
And we really shouldn’t have started sleeping together … (Except we did.)
I’m adorably psychotic. He’s in the NBA.
This is not a disaster waiting to happen, at all.
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Excerpt:
He came out, all ready, saw me, and shook his head.
Giving him the biggest smile I could muster, I handed over his coffee and dangled my keys. “Let’s go.”
My neighbor was coming home from his night shift at a factory. He was trudging down the hallway when he saw us, lifted a hand in greeting, then stopped. His head shot upright and his shoulders stiffened.
He rotated swiftly on his heels, his eyes wide and bulging. He held up a hand. “Is that—”
“No.” Lying. Another superhero quality of mine. “It’s late, Bill. That’s my brother.”
Reese squashed a laugh and nodded to the guy. “What’s up.” It wasn’t a question, but a greeting, and he hustled me past my neighbor.
I gave Reese a look as we went to my underground parking spot. “He’s going to hammer me later. He’ll know he wasn’t seeing things.”
“He’s a fan?”
“The biggest.”
Reese smirked, meeting my gaze over the top of my car. “Bigger than you?”
We were entering cheesy territory here. We needed to scale it back.
“I have a cardboard cutout of you,” I told him. “In my closet.”
He froze. “You’re joking.”
I was, but now I had to buy one. “Wouldn’t you like to think that.” Settling into my chair, I felt better—more familiar terrain again. “But the funny thing is, next time you come, you won’t know if I was serious or if I bought him after I told you.”
Reese just rolled his eyes, putting the coffees in the cup holders for both of us.
He was looking around as I pulled out of the lot. “This is actually a nice place.”
“The underground parking is nice. The apartment building itself is okay. Nothing great.” I didn’t tell him how the lights in the laundry room would dim, so if I used those machines, I had to prop the door open with a rock. Or how I’d only do my clothes between seven in the morning and nine. Nine was the latest. After that, people were stirring, and there were a few neighbors I wasn’t so sure about.
Reese whistled as I pulled up to departures seven minutes later. “You weren’t kidding. That’s close.”
“And you’ve barely had your coffee.”
He yawned now, blinking a few times. “I’ll grab some inside. You can have it.”
I parked, but didn’t shut off the engine.
“Do not get out,” he warned.
I grinned. “Wasn’t planning on it. We really don’t need to go to that level, with the hugging, would we kiss or not… Too many strings, friend.”
He smiled back, but his eyes had started to smolder a bit. He leaned over, dropping his voice, “I’ll answer one of those questions.” His lips caught mine in a good, firm kiss, one that sent my senses spiraling and stole just the slightest bit of oxygen from my lungs.
I might’ve needed to gather my bearings as he pulled back and grabbed his bag from the back. Before he turned, he gave me a second kiss, this one lighter. “Go home. Go to bed,” he said as he reached for the door. “Text me when you park, and again when you’re inside your place. Humor me. I’m a friend. I can care.”
He was starting to leave, but I tugged on his shirt.
He paused, looking back.
“And after that?” I asked.
“We’re friends. Let’s play it by ear.”
Our gazes held, a shared reminder of the other details in our agreement. I saw his darkening, so I let go. “Okey-dokey. Hope you don’t get mauled.”
He laughed. “It’s too early for that.”
But we both knew the truth. It could happen.
As if reading my mind, he amended, “It’s usually not that bad. If it is—and I don’t think it will be—airport security is good with celebrities here. They’ve got a special room and everything. Plus…” He reached in his bag and pulled out a baseball hat, dragging it low over his eyes and flicking up his hood. “This is pretty incognito.”
His height wasn’t, but I decided to pick my battles. “I’ll expect twenty questions by the time you land.”
He laughed. “Don’t think so. I’m going to be sleeping that whole time, but I’ll text you updates just to annoy you.” He got out, but bent back down, his tone more serious. “Do me a favor? Only take that job if you want it. Don’t take it because you feel desperate. I can loan you money, if anything.”
That wiped all joking aside. “Reese.” Dammit. “I’ll never lose myself in a guy again. Ever.”
“Yeah, but before you didn’t have a friend who could loan you money until you got to a place where you could pick something that actually made you happy.” His eyes flashed a warning. “Now you do. Just think about it. It’s a loan. I’d give one to another friend in the same spot.”
I rolled my eyes.
He chuckled. “Drive safe. I liked screwing you. Let’s do it again and soon.”
“I changed my mind. Get mauled!”
I could hear his laugh as he shut the door and headed inside, his bag over his shoulder. Only a couple guys squinted at him, their heads cocked to the side. He was right. His incognito look really was incognito, but he was still frustrating.
And I was hoping for thesoontoo.
Driving back, my phone kept buzzing.
Reese: Checking in.
Reese: I had to check my bag. It’s too big for a carry-on.
Reese: Two autographs.
Reese: Going up the escalator now.
Reese: At the security line. The guards are cool. They promised not to be angry when Thunder beats the Coyotes.
Reese: Through security.
He knew I couldn’t answer. I was driving.
Reese: I’m at gate A6.
Reese: This is a nice airport. I always forget till I get here.
Reese: I upgraded to first class.
Reese: Coach wants to make sure I get back in time for meetings this morning.
Reese: Still not boarding. Just letting you know.
After parking, I grabbed my phone.
Me: It’s supposed to be questions. Like, if I asked security if I could put a body in my bag, could I still check it? Questions like that. You’re not following the rules.
Reese: Fuck the rules. These are my rules.
Reese: You do questions. I do updates. Deal with it.
Reese: Except now. Are you back at your place?
Me: Yes. Walking upstairs now.
Reese: No updates from you. Well. Yes. Tell me when you get in your place.
I turned down my hallway. Bill’s door opened and his head popped out. His hair was scruffed up like he’d been trying for a Mohawk. “No bullshit. Was that him?”
I was about to break a fellow Reese Forster fan’s heart. “It was my brother.”
He glared. “You’re not fucking with me?”
“No.”
“Oh.”
That was it.
His head went back in, and he slammed his door shut.
Immediately Mrs. Rings yelled from her apartment across the hall. “STOP SLAMMING THE DOORS! EVERYONE FUCKING SHUT IT!”
And her parrot a second later.
“STOP SLAMMING FUCKING SHUT IT!”
And then, “SHUT IT, BORIS!”
And her parrot again, “EVERYONE FUCK IT AND GO TO SLEEP!”
About Tijan
Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new YA series along with so many more from north Minnesota where she lives with a man she couldn’t be without and an English Cocker she adores.
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“Loved ones aren’t supposed to go away,
whether it’s their choice or not.
That’s not how live is supposed to be.”
Teardrop Shot is told from Charlie’s point of view with the exception of one Reese chapter.
Charlie has the weight of the world on her shoulders and extreme guilt weighing heavy on her mind and in her heart. In order to survive one must do what needs to be done, no matter how selfish it looks on the outside. Self preservation is the key to hiding the shell of a person you’ve become. So when Charlie gets a call and an opportunity to work a few months at the camp she worked at years ago, when it all started, she’s jumps at the job that couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Having been fired and finding out your boyfriend is cheating all in the same day really puts a damper on life’s goals. Now Charlie is back where it all started. Where she found love for the first time and where she met the very best group of friends a girl could ask for. Charlie is now forced to face her past head on. But what happens when your past and your unexpected future collide.
Reese Forster is the hottest thing in the media and the NBA right now. He’s playing the best he’s ever played before and the media is loving it. But when you’re in the limelight, so is all the drama that surrounds you, and having a drug addict alcoholic as a brother can messy up someone’s reputation, especially a brother who’s now serving time in prison for impersonating his brother and sexual abuse. That’s the very thing that led the Seattle Thunder pro basketball team to Camp Echo. An exclusive, under the radar, basketball camp.
Two fractured hearts mesh making one intensely heartbreaking and overwhelmingly true love story.
“When you fall in love with someone,
you’re not supposed to lose them right away.”
My Thoughts:
I honestly don’t think my heart could possibly take much more. Tijan has put it through the wringer with Charlie and Reese’s story. It’s a definite possibility that Teardrop Shot will stay with me throughout. This is a book that every romance reader and romance lover should read!
When I first started Teardrop Shot, I honestly had no idea what I was in for and no clue what was going on. To be completely honest, I didn’t know if I would like Charlie from those beginning moments. Her character threw me for a loop, I couldn’t wrap my head around her and if she was just naturally quirky or if this was all an act. She came off as a tad bit crazy, but I later discovered the truth, and the truth caused me to push my initial thoughts aside and embrace her crazy!
This novel paints a vivid picture of fate at its greatest moment. Two broken souls meet and together they help each other mend both of their broken halves. I love the truth that shines bright through those moments. The moments of pure vulnerability coming from both Reese and Charlie had me clutching my kindle in one hand and a crumpled up tissue in the other.
So many tears were shed during the second half of teardrop shot. It’s crazy how one moment is full of laughter and then the very next, I’m bawling like a newborn baby. Tijan outdid herself with this novel and these characters. And this is the very reason why Tijan is on my top three author list. She put her whole heart and soul into this novel and I felt it all. I felt the heartbreak, the emotional turmoil, the panic that comes with the unknowns of starting a new relationship, the happiness, the joy, the closure on old chapters that haven’t yet been closed, the angst, and the purity of it all.
My heart is so full and so happy with the ending Tijan gave us! There were a few moments where I clutched the arm of my chair and hurt for the characters, and there were times I laughed out loud at Charlie’s crazy randomness. This love story gave me everything I’ve been ultimately craving in a romance novel.
“When it’s something inside a person that takes them away,
little by little, each day a tiny bit more,
it paralyzes you.”
Overall, if I could rate this higher than 5 stars, I would. Teardrop Shot deserves every star in the universe! Seriously, read this book!
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Amen! What a great review! I loved this one, too.
Thank you so much! I’m in book hangover mode now…. Teardrop Shot was a great read!