From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new second-chance, hate-to-love romance.
The Player Next Door by, USA Today bestselling author, K.A. Tucker, is now live!
Scarlet Reed has returned to Polson Falls, convinced that twelve years away is long enough to shed her humiliating childhood identity as the town harlot's daughter. With a teaching job secured and an adorable fixer-upper to call home, things in her life are finally looking up.
That is, until she finds out that Shane Beckett lives next door.
Shane Beckett, the handsome and charismatic high school star quarterback who smashed her heart. The lying, cheating player who was supposed to be long gone, living the pro football dream and fooling women into thinking he's Prince Charming. Shane Beckett, who is as attractive as ever and flashing his dimples at her as if he has done no wrong.
Scarlet makes it abundantly clear that old wounds have not been forgotten. Neighbors they may be, but friends they most certainly are not. She won't allow herself to fall for the single father and firefighter again, no matter how many apologies he offers, how many times he rushes to her aid, or how hard he makes her heart pound.
But as she spends more time with him, she begins to fear that maybe she's wrong. Maybe Shane has changed.
And maybe this time she's the one playing herself—out of a chance at true happiness.
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I always love a K A Tucker book and The Player Next Door doesn’t disappoint!
The Player Next Door is a second chance romance that follows Scarlet as she returns to her hometown for her dream job, but what she didn’t know was that the boy who broke her heart in high school lives right next door.
I really enjoyed reading this book and it was the perfect book to spend the day reading on a summers day. I got lost into the world of Shane and Scarlet and felt the chemistry between them straight away. I loved that Shane unapologetically showed how he felt as he just wanted to show Scarlet how he really felt.
All around this is a good story and I really did like it. I could feel the intense emotions that the characters had for each other fly off the pages.
I would recommend this as a great read this summer! *ARC kindly provided in exchange for an honest review*
About K.A. Tucker:
K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge.
She is the USA Today bestselling author of 17 books, including the Causal Enchantment, Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, and The Simple Wild. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, First for Women, and Publisher's Weekly. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance 2013 for TEN TINY BREATHS and Best Romance 2018 for THE SIMPLE WILD. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages.
K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto with her family.
Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in Balsam, Pennsylvania (population three thousand outside of tourist season).
And then one foggy night, on a lonely road back from another failed date, Catherine saves a man’s life. It isn’t until after the police have arrived that Catherine realizes exactly who it is she has rescued: Brett Madden, hockey icon and media darling.
Catherine has already had her fifteen minutes of fame and the last thing she wants is to have her past dragged back into the spotlight, only this time on a national stage. So she hides her identity. It works. For a time.
But when she finds the man she saved standing on her doorstep, desperate to thank her, all that changes. There’s an immediate connection, and it’s more electric than the bond of two people who endured a traumatic event. It’s something neither of them expected. Something that Catherine isn’t sure she can handle; something she is afraid to trust.
Because how long can an extraordinary man like Brett be interested in an ordinary woman like Catherine...before the spark fades?
K.A. Tucker is one of my favourite authors so I was excited to read this book, however, this is nothing like K.A. Tucker has written in the past. This book is like a completely different side of her that no one has seen before when it comes to her books.
I’ll start off by saying that this book is a very slow build. The characters take their time before they become more than friends. Brett is a famous hockey player who can make you swoon like any other, he’s grounded, caring, generous and kind. He was the perfect man, however, sometimes I felt like he was too perfect. Everyone has their flaws right? I was waiting to discover what Brett’s were since Catherine’s were focused on. Catherine is a sweet heroine, she needs to learn how to trust someone again. We learn about her past at the beginning but nothing about it feels rushed, it's all revealed perfectly.
This story felt like a modern fairy-tale just like it promises. Catherine learns to trust and love again with Brett. This is definitely a softer side to K.A. Tucker but her writing style is always amazing and she always ends up drawing me in. This is such a cute and sweet romance story for anyone that loves romance! I recommend!
*ARC kindly provided in exchange for an honest review*
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
K.A. Tuckeris the author of He Will Be My Ruin and the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series. She currently resides outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls, and a Chug.
