Title: Baller Made
Series: Bad Boy Ballers Book 3
Author: Rie Warren
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Bad Boy Ballers series finale! Includes an epic novella length epilogue for Rafe and Peyton, Brooklyn and Delaney, and Calder and Reggie!
The dark horse of the NFL. A superstar showgirl on the Vegas strip. Their desire is taboo in ways you can’t even begin to imagine.
Calder Malone. Black sheep. Bad boy. Kicked off the Reno Ravens and almost suspended from the NFL. The sexy center remains a fan favorite now that he’s playing for Carolina Crush. And what Calder wants more than anything is to prove his worth to the team that’s his last chance, the family he disgraced, and the one woman he fell in love with years ago.
Unfortunately the comeback kid isn’t a boy anymore, and the babe he wants was never his for the taking—for reasons that make him question his sanity.
Reggie isn’t just a Vegas showgirl, a pretty face. She’s an Air Force widow, a strong woman who’s piecing her life back together . . . And maybe the man she always thought was out of her league and completely off-limits just became fair game.
Off the field and offstage, what happens when Calder and Reggie don't stay in Vegas?
Rie Warren has done it to me again! I've been a fan of hers for awhile now. I loved the first 2 books of this series. This is the third and final of the series and for me Rie saved the best for last!
Calder Malone was in love once. But, then his brother married her. Calder was at the top of his game and then his brother passed away in the service. Calder spiraled out of control. Drugs, alcohol and women were what he used as a distraction. Until he almost lost his football career. Now, he's on a new team and trying to redemption for his actions. He's cut off ties with his family and with her. Until he's forced to come face to face with her. All his feelings for her are still there and no matter what he wants he's still loyal to his brother.
Reggie has always had feelings for Calder. She loved her husband too. But, with him being overseas their relationship and marriage was strained, close to being over. When he passed away she moved to Las Vegas for her dancing. No matter how many times Calder ignored her and tried pushing her away she'll never give up. Reggie finally decides she's going to take matters and Calder into the palm of her hand. She knows showing up on his front door and putting everything out front and center will make Calder see whats in front of him. And, its her.
Wow! All the previous characters from the other books are here and still very much of the story. What was so good about this book/series is you see the Carolina Crush go from the bottom to the top. From the beginning they've wanted that super ball ring. Rie did this entire series beautifully with its timeline.
Out of all the characters in this series, Calder got into my skin and heart the deepest. Reading his brothers emails had me crying and I was glad I was outside alone reading when that happened. Calder wanted redemption. From family, friends and just everyone he'd let down. He also wanted what his teammates and friends Rafe and Brooklyn had found. Love and the start of their own family. As far as I'm concerned Calder got everything he'd wanted, needed and more. Rie Warren has another book of my list of favorite read book. I'm sad to see the guys and their ladies from the Carolina Crush football team.
✯✯5 Beautiful Stars!!!✯✯
Rie Warren has done it to me again! I've been a fan of hers for awhile now. I loved the first 2 books of this series. This is the third and final of the series and for me Rie saved the best for last!
Calder Malone was in love once. But, then his brother married her. Calder was at the top of his game and then his brother passed away in the service. Calder spiraled out of control. Drugs, alcohol and women were what he used as a distraction. Until he almost lost his football career. Now, he's on a new team and trying to redemption for his actions. He's cut off ties with his family and with her. Until he's forced to come face to face with her. All his feelings for her are still there and no matter what he wants he's still loyal to his brother.
Reggie has always had feelings for Calder. She loved her husband too. But, with him being overseas their relationship and marriage was strained, close to being over. When he passed away she moved to Las Vegas for her dancing. No matter how many times Calder ignored her and tried pushing her away she'll never give up. Reggie finally decides she's going to take matters and Calder into the palm of her hand. She knows showing up on his front door and putting everything out front and center will make Calder see whats in front of him. And, its her.
Wow! All the previous characters from the other books are here and still very much of the story. What was so good about this book/series is you see the Carolina Crush go from the bottom to the top. From the beginning they've wanted that super ball ring. Rie did this entire series beautifully with its timeline.
Out of all the characters in this series, Calder got into my skin and heart the deepest. Reading his brothers emails had me crying and I was glad I was outside alone reading when that happened. Calder wanted redemption. From family, friends and just everyone he'd let down. He also wanted what his teammates and friends Rafe and Brooklyn had found. Love and the start of their own family. As far as I'm concerned Calder got everything he'd wanted, needed and more. Rie Warren has another book of my list of favorite read book. I'm sad to see the guys and their ladies from the Carolina Crush football team.
I was in a bastard of a mood when the doorbell rang after I’d dropped the two hundred-pound weight onto the rest. My chest burning, my ribs wracked with agony, I curled up to my feet. Thought about a shirt. Thought, fuck it. It was probably just Brooks.
He’d become my watchdog, checking in regularly, inviting me to his place for dinner with him and Delaney, keeping the door open in case I needed to talk to someone other than my sponsor.
Striding through the house, I absentmindedly swiped at the sweat on my chest with the towel I held.
I opened the door.
Wished I hadn’t.
My cock went fully hard in an instant.
I draped the towel in front of me, one hand notched on the doorframe, my chest bare, Reggie’s chin barely reaching my shoulders.
Reggie. On my doorstep. Showing up out of the clear blue.
My lips flattened as my heartbeat thudded in my chest.
Everything that had broken open in that alley with Brooklyn I’d sealed back under. Until this precise moment when Reggie lifted a bag in her hand and a smile on her lips when I was pretty sure I’d never looked more threatening.
“I’ve got some time off. Recuperation.” She angled a leg in tight faded jeans toward me. “Sore tendon. Figured you’d know how to put me back together right as rain with your PT background.”
“Funny.” Hooking the end of the towel into the waistband of my shorts, I rasped my hands across the dark shade of stubble on my jaw, and she watched every goddamn stroke. “You don’t look injured.”
“You do.” Her gaze—challenging—dropped to the bruise on my ribs.
Motherfucker.
“You came to check up on me.”
“So what if I did?” She shrugged one shoulder.
“You don’t have to worry about me anymore.”
“I can’t just turn it off, Calder.”
“I don’t need or want your help.” I tried to maintain the barrier, nearly snarling at her.
She merely cast her eyes beyond me. “Are you going to invite me inside like an old friend should?”
Old friend. Old pain.
I stepped back. Barely.
She ducked under my arm. Smiling.
Closing the door, I sealed my body against it. “What are you really doing here?”
“Well, you said you’d accept my calls.” She dropped her bags. Stood with hands on hips. “You lied to me.”
“It’s what I do, sweetheart.” Determined to piss her off so she’d leave because danger lurked in the dark spaces of my mind.
I’d forgotten she reacted like a lioness when cornered.
Rookie mistake.
In two steps, Reggie was up against me, in my face.
Protect and dominate. The two different impulses swarmed through me.
I wanted to serve her up on a silver platter and plant my face between her thighs.
Then tuck her against me in my bed, blankets all around, my arms a cradle.
Her eyes hooked mine with nothing but unwavering intensity. “You have driven everyone away, Calder.” Her stance blended her against me, and she had to feel the heat—the need and arousal—she spiked in my body.
“I will not fucking let you go down one more time.” Bleak, no longer dreamy eyes, rose to mine. “I’m not losing you to self-pity or self-loathing or any other kind of hate you keep wrapping around yourself.”
Looked like I’d met my match.
I’d known it all along.
Impossible.
“One man is enough to lose.” Her voice dropped, but her finger pointed at my chest before she spread her fingers over my careening heart. “And you have a choice in the matter.”
At her unerring words, I went stock-still.
Rie is the badass, sassafras author of Sugar Daddy and the Don’t Tell series–a breakthrough trilogy that crosses traditional publishing boundaries beginning with In His Command. Her latest endeavors include the Carolina Bad Boys, a fun, hot, and southern-sexy series.
A Yankee transplant who has traveled the world, Rie started out a writer—causing her college professor to blush over her erotic poetry without one ounce of shame. Not much has changed. She swapped pen for paintbrushes and followed her other love during her twenties. From art school to marriage to children and many a wild and wonderful journey in between, Rie has come home to her calling. Her work has been called edgy, daring, and some of the sexiest smut around.
You can connect with Rie via the social media hangouts listed on her website https://www.riewarren.com.
She is represented by Saritza Hernandez, Corvisiero Literary Agency. http://www.corvisieroagency.com/Saritza_Hernandez.html
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