Sasha White

My writing partner Beth has a hot new contemporary out form Loose Id today. The first story in her Perfect Score Series.
The Perfect Score 1: One Night Stand from Loose Id is now available!
http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=270

The Perfect Score Tournament is coming to the small town of Espejo, Texas. The biggest bowling tournament in the state is going to change the lives of three friends.
 
The Perfect Score: Three novellas of women on a bowling team who all sign up for the tournament… what they find is more than a 300 game.
 
Book 1: One Night Stand
 
Babs Loomis is a bitter woman. Her husband left her after five years because they couldn’t have children and he didn’t want a woman that was barren. She is a chain smoker, and a drinker, intent on getting as much pleasure as she can out of life. She bowls for company - Veronica and Marlene are her closest friends. When she runs into Jimmy Tanaka at the tournament, a former friend of her ex-husband’s, her bitterness turns into something completely different and totally unexpected.
 
Can Babs overcome her own ghosts and find more than a one night stand?

 
EXCERPT:
 
Babs picked her outfit carefully for the first day of the tournament. She didn’t want to appear to have too much money, so she skipped the Donna Karan outfit, but she also didn’t want to appear too white-trashy, so she left behind her short-shorts and tank top. Instead, she chose a pair of white slacks and a bright blue blouse. She’d been told that blue was her best color.
For Chrissakes, she was actually nervous! She, who had spent her entire adult life, and most of her teenage years, seducing men. She was nervous about meeting strangers. Unbelievable. If she had any smarts, she’d stop being such a sissy and simply tackle her fear like everything else. Head on.
Babs grabbed her mini-bag and headed for the car, toting her cooler with containers of orange juice. Jesse didn’t have to know she’d spiked them with vodka. She had to have something to get her through the day. The soda from the snack bar wasn’t going to cut it. Not all damn day.
When she arrived at the bowling alley, it was still an hour before registration officially started, but the parking lot was already half full with everything from Hummers to Toyotas to Chevys. Great. That left her no time to prepare. She sighed and got out of the car. Sooner started, sooner done.
A huge sign announcing “PERFECT SCORE BOWLING TOURNAMENT” hung across the front of the alley. “Welcome Competitors” sat below the tournament name. Babs snorted. Welcome, indeed. She was the welcome wagon and damned if she didn’t need a swig of orange juice already.
She noticed the sound of dozens of unfamiliar voices first. It was like a beehive, buzzing constantly, but with no real distinguishable singular voice. She took a deep breath and headed in.
Jesse had accomplished a miracle at the Starlite. It sparkled and shone from every nook and cranny. Every chair was new, every table clean, and sparkling glass ashtrays sat where their aluminum predecessors had once lurked. The carpets had been professionally cleaned and the front desk had a new countertop. She could swear even the bowling shoes had new laces. He had worked wonders to get it ready for the tournament.
Babs smiled at the sight and walked toward the long folding table with the sign “REGISTRATION DESK” on it. That must be her post. Marlene appeared from behind the snack bar and hurried over. She had cut her hair a week before and was still nervous about how it looked. Not that Babs could pick on her about it – $$she@@ was nervous about talking to people!
“Morning!” Marlene called with a big grin.
“Good morning,” Babs replied as she set her cooler down beneath the table.
“Ready?”
Babs shrugged her shoulders. “I guess so. Not sure if I’ll be such a goodwill ambassador, but I can tell people what to do.”
Marlene laughed and gave her a quick hug, then headed off. “You’ll be fine. Just be nice.”
“Hey! I’m always nice!” Babs called after her and sat down. Jesse had already explained what she needed to do. She’d help get the registration lists and score sheets together. Lord, she had even helped with the scheduling. Marlene was bowling in the couples’ tournament with a man she didn’t know. Marlene had also bullied Veronica into bowling ladies’ doubles just to get her to do something besides the ordinary.
The moment she sat down, a large Starbucks coffee was set down in front of her. Babs smiled up at Jesse.
“Thank you, Jesse! How did you know?”
He almost looked like he blushed. “I asked Marlene. I cain’t pay you, Babs, but I wanted you to know how much I appreciate your help.”
Babs’s smile grew wider. “You’re welcome, Jesse. I like to help out my friends.”
He patted her on the shoulder. “I’ll be over at the front desk, so if you need me, just holler.”
She nodded and he half-jogged back to the desk to take care of the three people already waiting. So many strangers, so many new faces. Babs was watching all of them, knowing she’d speak to every one of them sometime over the next four days.
That’s when she saw him.
He wasn’t overly tall; in fact, he couldn’t be taller than five foot eight. His hair was black as pitch, and from behind, his body was perfect. Wide shoulders with firm muscles topped a tapering back and long arms. The biceps and triceps were well defined and winked at her from beneath his short-sleeved red shirt. His black trousers hugged an incredible ass that made her mouth water. It was more than enough to fill her hands. She wanted to bite it and see if it was as firm as it looked.
His legs were obviously well muscled and his stance was that of an athlete, with the fluid movements of someone well used to his body As he spoke to a man wearing an identical red shirt – obviously a teammate – he gestured, and she got a better view of his magnificent arms. A hiss escaped her mouth as a shiver wormed its way down to her pussy.
Perfect. He was perfect.
Babs had no idea how long she stared, but it was long enough for the other man to notice. He smiled at her, then facing his friend tipped his head in her direction to the man that her body longed to explore. The perfect stranger turned, and Babs literally gasped when she saw his face.
Jimmy Tanaka.