Cocktails and Books's Review of The Player Next Door

by K.A. Tucker

From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths comes a new second-chance, hate-to-love romance.

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.

This review was originally posted on Cocktails and Books

Cocktails and Books received this book for free from Blog Tour in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect our opinion of the book or the content of our review.I loved Scarlet and Shane together. There was something about this second-chance romance that had me cheering for Shane Freaking Bennett from the moment he appeared on the page. Di he have a mountain to climb when it came to Scarlet....absolutely. But he was also able to show her that she was worth whatever obstacles she put in his way. No one else had really been willing to do that for her (as far as she could tell) and she needed this man to prove he wasn't that seventeen-year-old boy who broke her heart.

The cast of supporting characters were great and I hope we get to visit Polson Falls again soon. I see a story for Justine coming and I hope it includes a hot fireman named Dean.

A great read that was really hard to put down.

The Player Next Door

by K.A. Tucker

Reviewed by Cocktails and Books on Jun 16, 2020

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