Lucky Bastard: A kinky romance novella (Coach Rye #1)

Twenty years ago, Annie Leonidas was a gymnast. Training as a teenager under Coach Rye, she'd worked harder then everyone to achieve her goals - and to make him proud of her. She'd always strove to be his good girl.

Of course she'd had a crush on him - how could she not? He was the ultimate forbidden fruit. A Romani by blood and twelve years her senior, he had 'taboo' written all over him. Then again, his athletic good looks and his authoritative-yet-caring attitude had made him the obvious target of her teenage hero-worship.

But Coach Rye had never noticed - or, more likely, purposefully ignored - Annie's love-struck stares and juvenile attempts at seduction.

Now, happily married to her high-school sweetheart, with four kids and a full-time career, Annie is a happy, accomplished woman. If she has some unfulfilled fantasies, she keeps them buried deep, only daring to play them in her mind's eye in rare moments of solitude behind the locked bedroom door.

Then a chance encounter on her trip to the States brings her face to face with the star of those dreams - and now their all-adult attraction proves much harder to resist...

Will Coach Rye refuse her now, when she's all grown up? Will Annie dare explore her deepest desires with him? And could she ever go back to her pure vanilla existence, once she'd tasted some of the darker, richer flavors life had to offer?