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Grass courts, tennis whites and the fiercest competition in the world. Wimbledon. After two crazy weeks in Paris, the girls of the Outer Banks Tennis Academy are headed to London with just one thing on their minds: winning.
Indiana Gaffney is fresh off a surprise win at the French Open junior tournament. Sponsors are clamoring for her attention, but what she wants more than anything—aside from a wild card to Wimbledon—is to be with Jack Harrison, but international fame and a secret relationship rarely mix well.
When Penny Harrison dreamed of playing at Wimbledon she never imagined agonizing pain shooting through her ankle with every step. With just a month until the tournament and the whole world expecting her to win, she’s determined to play, with or without the support of her coach or the love of her life, Alex Russell.
For the first time ever, no one expects anything from Jasmine Randazzo. After a crushing first-round defeat in the French Open juniors, the tennis world has given up on her, but worse than that, so have her parents, her best friend Teddy and maybe even her coach. With everyone writing her off, can she find it within herself to go after her dreams?
Indiana Gaffney is fresh off a surprise win at the French Open junior tournament. Sponsors are clamoring for her attention, but what she wants more than anything—aside from a wild card to Wimbledon—is to be with Jack Harrison, but international fame and a secret relationship rarely mix well.
When Penny Harrison dreamed of playing at Wimbledon she never imagined agonizing pain shooting through her ankle with every step. With just a month until the tournament and the whole world expecting her to win, she’s determined to play, with or without the support of her coach or the love of her life, Alex Russell.
For the first time ever, no one expects anything from Jasmine Randazzo. After a crushing first-round defeat in the French Open juniors, the tennis world has given up on her, but worse than that, so have her parents, her best friend Teddy and maybe even her coach. With everyone writing her off, can she find it within herself to go after her dreams?
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She looked over her shoulder,
blowing a lock of dark brown hair out of her eyes. He was leaning up on one
elbow, dirty blond hair sticking up in all directions, the navy blue sheets
pooling around his waist.
“Still hurts when I put
pressure on it,” she mumbled, leaning back into the bed and pulling the sheet
around her as well.
“Doc said it would,” Alex
reminded her, his arm snaking around her waist, drawing her closer to him. “A
couple more weeks at least, until you’re at full strength.”
“I know, I was just hoping…”
she trailed off, then sighed. “I wanted to play in Birmingham and that’s not
going to happen.”
The scruff lining his jaw
rubbed against her shoulder, soothing in its roughness, before he kissed the
skin gently. “Doc said that too. Grade two ankle sprain, four to six weeks,
minimum.”
“You never know, I could wake
up one of these mornings and all the pain could be gone. Besides, he said it
was between a grade one and grade two, the teeniest, tiniest tear.”
“Very tiny,” Alex agreed,
sliding his fingers underneath the chain around her neck, pulling the old
British penny from it’s usual home against her skin. He rubbed his thumb over
the metal, his eyes suddenly far away.
“It’s not really Birmingham I’m
worried about,” she whispered, her hand resting over his, stopping the motion
and drawing his eyes to hers.
“I know, love, I know.”
Wimbledon was just a few weeks
away. Her ankle might be just fine by then, but there was a good chance it
wouldn’t be and even if she healed up in that time, she’d have to miss weeks of
training leading up to the tournament, the most important one of her life.
After beating Zina Lutrova in the quarterfinals of the French Open, even with
her ankle barely holding her weight by the end, the entire tennis world
expected her to pick up right where she left off. She went into the French Open
expected to do well, but she would be going into Wimbledon with everyone
expecting her to win.
Jennifer Iacopelli Bio:
Jennifer Iacopelli was born in New York and has no plans to leave...ever. Growing up, she read everything she could get her hands on, but her favorite authors were Laura Ingalls Wilder, L.M. Montgomery and Frances Hodgson Burnett all of whom wrote about kick-ass girls before it was cool for girls to be kick-ass. She got a Bachelor's degree in Adolescence Education and English Literature quickly followed up by a Master's in Library Science, which lets her frolic all day with her books and computers, leaving plenty of time in the evenings to write and yell at the Yankees, Giants and her favorite tennis players through the TV.
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