Taking a Shot

Publisher Marketing: USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle presents another novella in the Portland Storm hockey romance series. Katie Weber has lost her health due to leukemia, and now her chemotherapy treatments have taken her hair. She's not about to show up to her senior prom bald and let her classmates steal her dignity, too. Prom is no place for a girl who looks more like an alien than a high school student, especially when her so-called friends all dropped her like she had the plague at the first mention of the word cancer. Katie could never get up the courage to ask Jamie-her crush for almost two years, ever since he joined her dad's pro hockey team-to take her. Not with the way she looks now. Besides, her dad would absolutely murder him. Jamie Babcock knows its bad news to fall for his Portland Storm teammate's daughter, but he's had a thing for Katie since the first time he met her when he was just a wide-eyed, eighteen-year-old rookie. Now cancer might take her away before he ever grows the balls to do anything about it, though. Her father won't be happy about it, but Jamie has to take a shot and ask to take her to her prom. It seems like Katie has just about given up, and he can't let her go without giving her some good memories...something to hold on to. She's still got her whole life ahead of her-she just has to keep living it. If he can convince her of that, nothing her father might do to him will matter. This 20,000 word novella was previously released as part of the Seduced by the Game anthology. Jamie and Katie's story continues in Dropping Gloves. Contributor Bio:  Gayle, Catherine Catherine Gayle is a bestselling author of Regency-set historical romance. She's a transplanted Texan living in North Carolina with two extremely spoiled felines. In her spare time, she watches way too much hockey and reality TV, plans fun things to do for the Nephew Monster's next visit, and performs experiments in the kitchen which are rarely toxic.