“Heartfelt, hilarious, with a dash of angst...Karla Sorensen shines with the perfect feel-good read!” --Author Catherine Cowles
Batter of Wits, an all-new funny and heartwarming romance from Karla Sorensen, is now available in Kindle Unlimited!
Hate at first sight couldn’t possibly exist, right?
That’s what Grace Buchanan thought, before her useless car stranded her on the side of a deserted road just inside the Green Valley city limits.
When Tucker Haywood—tall and handsome and full of southern charm— shows up to help, her reaction to him is the strongest thing she’s ever felt in her life, and it makes no freaking sense.
It doesn’t make much sense to Tucker either. Not why she hates him, or why he finds her so intriguing. He knows well enough that Grace is moving to Green Valley for a fresh start, not to distract him when he’s got no room for something like her in his life.
The complications between them are endless, but that doesn’t stop her definitely not love-at-first-sight feelings from changing into something else entirely.
Grace and Tucker are about to learn the hard way that in Green Valley, hating someone has never tasted so sweet.
‘Batter of Wits’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone, and is book #5 in the Donner Bakery series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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My Review
Seriously, Karla Sorensen's books get better and better. This one is no exception.
Grace and her twin brother Grady are making their way back to the Green Valley from Los Angeles, and she's a heading in a few days ahead of him. On her way, her car breaks down and a local lawyer, Tucker, comes to her rescue. She's prickly, rude, and has this instant hate for him. He's charming, friendly, and amused by her angry-girl personality.
Grace is tinkering around her grandparent's attic when she finds a few old journals - the ones that document the Buchanan "love curse" and she realizes what happens to the *women* in the family. It's not insta-love...rather, it's Insta-hate! She's immediately realizes a few things after talking to her cousin Levi: First, while the men have Insta-love, the women get the lovely predicament of insta-hate-turned-love. Second, the curse only happens when the two meet in Green Valley. Third, she's in Green Valley, hates Tucker with a passion, and he's tied to his high school sweetheart so she believes she's doubly cursed.
Until the moment when her and Tucker have a moment, and she see's in him what his current girlfriend, parents, and others cannot. This eye-opener frees him to make changes in his life, including getting his angry-girl to become his girl. The entire town conspires to bring the two fo them together, and the ending sets up what I hope is Grady's story. I can't wait to read that one!
Karla Sorensen has absolutely become my new favorite one-click author. I am officially a fangirl for life!
Grace and her twin brother Grady are making their way back to the Green Valley from Los Angeles, and she's a heading in a few days ahead of him. On her way, her car breaks down and a local lawyer, Tucker, comes to her rescue. She's prickly, rude, and has this instant hate for him. He's charming, friendly, and amused by her angry-girl personality.
Grace is tinkering around her grandparent's attic when she finds a few old journals - the ones that document the Buchanan "love curse" and she realizes what happens to the *women* in the family. It's not insta-love...rather, it's Insta-hate! She's immediately realizes a few things after talking to her cousin Levi: First, while the men have Insta-love, the women get the lovely predicament of insta-hate-turned-love. Second, the curse only happens when the two meet in Green Valley. Third, she's in Green Valley, hates Tucker with a passion, and he's tied to his high school sweetheart so she believes she's doubly cursed.
Until the moment when her and Tucker have a moment, and she see's in him what his current girlfriend, parents, and others cannot. This eye-opener frees him to make changes in his life, including getting his angry-girl to become his girl. The entire town conspires to bring the two fo them together, and the ending sets up what I hope is Grady's story. I can't wait to read that one!
Karla Sorensen has absolutely become my new favorite one-click author. I am officially a fangirl for life!
Excerpt
When I looked down, her hands were fisted on the
countertop, shaking from the effort of keeping them still.
"I'd take a picture of that," I told her,
voice low and charged.
She tilted her chin up toward me. "Of what?"
In the low light of the apartment, her eyes glowed
like melted gold.
"Your hands." I licked my suddenly dry lips.
"I feel like they're telling me something that I can't figure out."
Grace peered down at the fists she was making, and her
fingers relaxed, the skin no longer white around her knuckles.
"What are they telling me, Grace?" I begged.
She ducked under my arm and I exhaled heavily. Without
the heat from her body against mine, I took a second to get myself under
control. When I turned, she was handing me her camera.
"Go ahead," she said.
I tilted my head. "You want me to take your
picture?"
Grace studied the camera, carefully removing the lens
cap and pulling it up to her eyes. She aimed it at my face, and I wondered what
she saw. If I looked like I was one thread away from snapping, because that's
how I felt.
I'd never felt like I was one quick step away from
freedom, but here, I was. One nudge over the edge of the cliff, and she'd have
me free falling without a parachute. I'd never, ever wanted it so badly.
When I heard the click of the shutter, I rubbed the
back of my neck. "Can I see?"
She ignored me, pulling the camera away so she could
look at the digital image on the back. Her lips curved in a secret little
smile.
"What do you see?" I asked.
Her chest expanded on an inhale. "Frustration."
Her eyes met mine. "Want."
Words lodged in my chest, and I couldn't tear them
loose.
I held my hand out and she passed the camera to me.
With a rough swallow, I squinted at the tiny viewfinder once it was at
eye-level. Grace came into my eye line, holding my gaze with such directness
that I fought the urge not to throw the camera across the room simply because
it was between us.
It was her turn to ask. "What do you see?"
My finger pushed the slick button on top of the
camera, and her mouth curled in surprise that I took a shot.
I pushed the button again as she took a step closer.
"You're not answering me," she said lightly.
"Because I can hardly think straight when you're
looking at me like that." My admission was rough and hard, out before I
could stop it.
She took another step, within reach now, and one of
her hands slid up my forearm.
One more picture, the sound of the shutter snapping
between us like a shot.
Somehow, I set it down on the counter without smashing
it.
"You can't lie to a camera," Grace said
quietly, watching her hand on my arm before the other landed on my heaving
chest. "It captures things as are they are, good or bad or ugly or
beautiful."
I slid an arm around her waist and tightened my grip
until she was flush against me. My other hand pushed up the back of her neck
and into her hair.
"This is insane," she breathed, dropping her
forehead onto my chest.
"No, it's not."
Grace lifted her head and pinned me in place.
"Tucker, seventy-two hours ago, I hated you. You can't tell me this
doesn't feel a little nuts."
I couldn't stop my smile. "You didn't hate me.
Not really."
One eyebrow lifted. "Wanna bet?"
About Karla Sorensen
Karla Sorensen has been an avid reader her entire life, preferring stories with a happily-ever-after over just about any other kind. And considering she has an entire line item in her budget for books, she realized it might just be cheaper to write her own stories. It doesn’t take much to keep her happy…a book, a really big glass of wine, and at least thirty minutes of complete silence every day. She still keeps her toes in the world of health care marketing, where she made her living pre-babies. Now she stays home, writing and mommy-ing full time (this translates to almost every day being a ‘pajama day’ at the Sorensen household…don’t judge). She lives in West Michigan with her husband, two exceptionally adorable sons and big, shaggy rescue dog.
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