We are thrilled that Cora Carmack's highly anticipated ALL
LINED UP is finally here!! ALL LINED UP is a New Adult contemporary romance
novel being published by HarperCollins’ William Morrow Impulse
imprint and is a part of Cora Carmack’s Rusk University Series!!
*ALL LINED UP Synopsis*
New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author Cora Carmack follows up her trio of
hits—Losing It, Faking It, and Finding
It—with this thrilling first novel in an explosive series bursting
with the Texas flavor, edge, and steamy romance of Friday Night
Lights.
In Texas, two things are cherished above all else—football
and gossip. My life has always been ruled by both.
Dallas Cole loathes football. That's what happens when you
spend your whole childhood coming in second to a sport. College is her time to
step out of the bleachers, and put the playing field (and the players) in her
past.
But life doesn't always go as planned. As if going to the
same college as her football star ex wasn’t bad enough, her father, a Texas
high school coaching phenom, has decided to make the jump to college ball… as
the new head coach at Rusk University. Dallas finds herself in the shadows of
her father and football all over again.
Carson McClain is determined to go from second-string
quarterback to the starting line-up. He needs the scholarship and the future
that football provides. But when a beautiful
redhead literally falls into his life, his focus
is more than tested. It's obliterated.
Dallas doesn't know Carson is on the team. Carson doesn't
know that Dallas is his new coach's daughter.
And neither of them know how to walk away from the
attraction they feel.
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*Excerpt*
There’s only one thing in the world I despise more than
football, and he’s making his way down the stairs toward me.
My eyes flit around me like I’m scanning a battlefield
instead of a blowout:fraternity banners, litter of red Solo cups, and a
freshman pledge dragging around a trash bag playing reluctant maid. Part of me
wants to keep doing that, to pretend like I didn’t hear him.
But I can’t. If I ignore him, it will only prove to him that
he still bothers me.
I face him as he steps off the last stair, crossing his arms
over his broad chest and grinning at me. Levi. My ex.
He leans his hip against the banister of the grand
staircase, and I spy not one but two girls sitting halfway up the stairs,
obviously upset that they’ve lost his attention.
Behind me I hear someone shout, “Ready. Aim. Fire!” and I
know the beer guns are back in play.
“Alcohol and bad decisions, Levi? Can’t say I’m surprised to
find you smack-dab in the middle of that.”
He kicks off from the banister, swaggering a few steps
closer. His dark hair and eyes are as striking as always. I’d fallen for him so
hard my freshman year of high school: doodling our names together in my spiral,
watching him play from the bleachers, wearing that monstrous mum he gave me for
homecoming, beaming on his elbow at his junior prom.
The memory of all that just makes me nauseated now. But as
Stella always says, hindsight is a pretentious, know-it-all bitch.
“You come here to make some bad decisions?” He moves closer,
his voice pitching lower. Intimate. His gaze drifts down my body with an
arrogant familiarity. “Because you know I can help you with
that.”
Levi Abrams has been the cause of enough bad decisions for a
lifetime.
Stella steps in, her voice colder than I’ve ever heard it.
“I’m fairly certain she’d rather sandpaper her own skin off.”
I nod and plaster on the fakest smile in my arsenal. “And
then take a bath in lemon juice.”
Levi smiles back, and I’m pretty sure the bastard is
enjoying this.
He’s bigger than when I last saw him. Bulked up. I guess
that’s the difference between high school and college ball. But it’s not just
muscles… he reaches out a hand like he’s going to touch my hair, and as I jerk
back, even his hands seem bigger than I remember. A man’s hands, rather than
those of the boy I knew. Or maybe his head got so big that his inflated ego
overflowed to other parts of his body. Also a possibility.
I knew Levi was here when I chose Rusk University—hard not
to when he’s the starting quarterback—but I didn’t think I’d ever have to see
him. Since Dad wouldn’t let me leave Texas, and only a handful of universities
here actually have a true dance major, Rusk was the best option out of the
schools to which I was allowed to apply.
Levi lets his hand fall away and turns to leave, but then
stops to say over his shoulder, “You don’t have to pretend to hate me so much,
you know. I’m here. You’re here. We could start fresh, D.”
Why does no one get that it’s impossible
to have a fresh start when nothing has really changed? God, I knew that better
than anybody because no matter how many new coaching jobs Dad took, every
school ended up the same.
Levi is still a douche-bag who only cares about himself.
Dad still approaches parenting like I’m a member of his
team.
And I… I’m still stuck. In my father’s shadow. In Texas. In
this lame state school with a joke of a dance program.
And now I’m stuck at my first frat party with the ex who
broke my heart.
Yay college.
*Cora Carmack Bio*
Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write
about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her
life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre),
stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys
placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying
to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her
first book, LOSING IT, is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
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