Hi!
Thank you for featuring me on your blog today! I’d like to
share what is next for me in the world of young adult fiction. Next, I
plan to work on Sasha’s Story. We saw their courtship through Matty’s point of
view. It’s time we heard from Sasha. We’ll get to see more of her family connections
with Alec and Jerich. We’ll get to see more of her involvement with soccer. And
most importantly, we’ll get to see her relationship with Matt develop through
her eyes. I think it will be a lot of fun.
But for now, we’ll have to settle with Matt, the loveable
hockey thug with a big heart…even though he tries to fight it.
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The
Dating Tutor: Matt’s Story
Melissa Frost
Contemporary Romance, @30k
Matt Wendell is perfectly content in his single
life. That is until Sasha walks into it. Being the cousin of his best friend
Alec, Sasha is off limits. She’s the one girl he can’t have, and the only one
he wants. Even if he wasn’t restrained by the ‘friends only’ stipulation, Sasha
has put up a wall around her heart that is going to be hard to tear down.
Alec introduces the two under the strict
instructions that Matt is to learn how to become friends with a woman. This
task proves difficult, as Matt’s only interaction with the opposite sex has
been of a romantic nature. As time goes on and their friendship strengthens,
things get more and more challenging, because the more he learns about Sasha,
the deeper his feelings for her become. Can this non-committal guy change his
ways? And can he convince Sasha that he’s in this for the long haul?
14+ for
sexuality and adult situations
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Excerpt:
Matt
happily chatted with Sasha during the short ride to their destination. He’d
slyly begun toying with her hair and touching her arm until he’d managed to
grasp her hand in his. He’d flirted. She’d flirted. It was turning out to be
one of the easiest dates of his life.
That
was until she pulled to a stop on the outskirts of the campus. He hadn’t been
paying much attention, but now he gazed out the window to find the field house
and sporting area. “Um…are you lost?”
“Lost?”
Sasha set him with innocent eyes. “Heavens no. This is where we’re going.” She
turned off the car and stepped out.
Matt
followed her lead. He came to stand at her side just as she was reaching the
trunk of her car. When she popped it open, he asked, “So what is this? A picnic
out on the football field?” It was a bit on the romantic side for a first date,
but he was willing to go with it.
“Something
like that,” Sasha said with amusement in her voice. Stepping back from the
trunk, she turned to fully face him. Her eyes roved over his face for a moment
before she closed the small distance between them. She slipped her arms around
his waist and leaned in against his chest. “Before we get started… Kiss me. I
want to know what your lips feel like against mine. I want to know what you
taste like.”
Arousal
swept through him. Without any hesitation, he lowered his lips over hers. And
that was when Sasha pulled back with a snort.
“Alec
was right. You have absolutely no idea what it’s like being friends with a
girl. You went into this with the instruction of friends only. Yet you’re
trying to kiss me ten minutes in.” Shaking her head, Sasha grabbed the edges of
her sundress and pulled it up over her head. Underneath, she wore a sports bra
and a pair of yoga shorts. From the trunk, she produced a pair of knee high
socks and cleats.
Matt
took a step back, feeling stunned. He’d thought they were going to kiss…but no.
She’d shut him out. And now she was…pulling a soccer ball out of her trunk? He
blinked at her in confusion.
Sasha
roughly tossed the ball in his direction. He barely managed to catch it, and it
thudded against his chest hard enough to cause him some discomfort.
“You
know, the majority of us don’t discuss lip gloss,” she said with a snicker. “If
you’d ever bothered to hold a real conversation with a girl, you’d know that.”
She bent at the waist and threw her hair down toward the ground. Gathering it
in one hand, she bundled it all together in a high ponytail atop her head.
Flipping
back up to face him, she placed her hands on her hips. “Game on, Matty. Time to
learn what it’s like to actually hang out with a girl.” Ticking items off on
her fingers, she made a list of all the things they wouldn’t be doing. “No
candlelight dinners. No kissing. No eyelash batting. No flirting. I’m going to
kick your ass out on that field and make you question everything you know about
women.”
Author Bio:
Melissa Frost grew up loving young adult novels and continues to
immerse herself in the current authors on the market. In the fifth grade, she
won a writing competition to work with children’s author Colleen O'Shaughnessy
Mckenna, and it inspired her to write stories of her own. She never looked
back.
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