Books with author Samantha Guzman

All her life, people have told 17-year-old tomboy Emma Wrangton that she’s not good enough, smart enough, or strong enough to succeed in life. Somewhere along the way, she started to believe them.Without the promise of a respectable future after graduation, all Emma wants is to cherish her senior year by playing basketball with the guys and spending as much time as possible with her best friend before he heads off to some fancy university, leaving her behind. But when the high school basketball coach recruits her to join the team—the girls’ team—Emma discovers life is anything but a slam dunk. How is she supposed to know how to be one of the girls when all she’s ever been is one of the guys?

Emma Wrangton knows how to play basketball. She knows when to pass, when to drive, when to shoot. She knows how to read the defense, how to adapt when a game takes an unexpected turn, and how to fearlessly face an opponent and fight for the win. Basketball is what she knows; basketball is what she’s good at. What she doesn’t know is how to trust herself when she’s confronted with life-altering decisions off the basketball court. Is it right to turn her back on the only life she’s ever known to face a future of uncertainty? Should she sacrifice her dream to spare herself and others additional heartache? Is it possible to let go of a lifetime of pain to find healing? Afraid to make the wrong decisions, she discovers shots worth taking aren’t always confined by the boundaries of a basketball court.

All her life, people have told 17-year-old tomboy Emma Wrangton that she’s not good enough, smart enough, or strong enough to succeed in life. Somewhere along the way, she started to believe them.Without the promise of a respectable future after graduation, all Emma wants is to cherish her senior year by playing basketball with the guys and spending as much time as possible with her best friend before he heads off to some fancy university, leaving her behind. But when the high school basketball coach recruits her to join the team—the girls’ team—Emma discovers life is anything but a slam dunk. How is she supposed to know how to be one of the girls when all she’s ever been is one of the guys?

Emma Wrangton knows how to play basketball. She knows when to pass, when to drive, when to shoot. She knows how to read the defense, how to adapt when a game takes an unexpected turn, and how to fearlessly face an opponent and fight for the win. Basketball is what she knows; basketball is what she’s good at. What she doesn’t know is how to trust herself when she’s confronted with life-altering decisions off the basketball court. Is it right to turn her back on the only life she’s ever known to face a future of uncertainty? Should she sacrifice her dream to spare herself and others additional heartache? Is it possible to let go of a lifetime of pain to find healing? Afraid to make the wrong decisions, she discovers shots worth taking aren’t always confined by the boundaries of a basketball court.

She's about to make a dirty deal with the irresistible billionaire …Lindsay Morris hasn't exactly had it easy in life, and recently, more often than not, she finds herself saying FML. She's made peace with the fact that she is a lowly burlesque dancer, though secretly, she dreams of so much more.Just when she thinks things couldn't possibly get any worse, they do. When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's and she has to put her in an assisted living facility, everything in Lindsay's life starts to fall apart. When a hot stranger offers her an irresistible deal that will get him his ex-girlfriend back and Lindsay more time with her mother, she can't resist. That's how Lindsay meets Jack Powers, the unbelievably sexy, ridiculously wealthy, sex-on-legs man.Lindsay really doesn't have time for a deal where she has to pretend to be Jack's girlfriend. She's too busy with her real life as it is and with her mother's memory quickly dwindling away, it's only a matter of time until Lindsay loses her forever. All alone, and with no other family in the picture, Lindsay has no one to rely on. The scandalous and incredibly dirty deal Jack is offering is heaven sent and will give her what she needs. She wants to say yes. It's just... is 'pretend' going to cut it when the sparks flying between them feel like they'll explode at any moment...Genre: New Adult Romance, approx 240 pgs. ~2 books total in this series~