I've read many sports-related romance books this year, and this is one of them that has stuck with me, and I can still remember almost everything that happened in it. I loved it was a small-town romance and that the main characters were actually older. I loved seeing Millie try her freaking hardest to avoid Ford and his daughter, but Joey had other plans. I loved seeing their relationship build because she treated her as her own daughter from the very beginning, and I loved the relationship they ended up having because Sienna wasn't the most motherly towards her. I loved actually getting some baby momma drama because I feel like in so many single-parent books I've read, the other parent's dead, so we don't get that drama element. I loved how this one was written; it had so many layers. I really want to read more by Perry.

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🏈 First person dual POV

🏈 Second chance romance; college best friends reunite 10 years later

🏈 Workplace romance / forced proximity / forbidden

🏈 College Athletic Director / College football coach 

🏈 He falls HARD

🏈 Single dad

🏈 Well established secondary characters; Autumn, Joey, Toren (Book 2)

🏈 MC Growth; toxic past relationship, self worth, risking a relationship, trust, job priorities, past grief.

🏈 Epilogue

🚩 FYI: FMC’s verbally aggressive ex partner believes he is owed a relationship with her & won’t take no for an answer. This character disappears without explicit repercussions for their actions. 

Available on Kindle Unlimited

⚠️ Toxic relationship (past), infidelity (past relationship, not MC), pregnancy (past), grief, death of a parent (past), sexism/misogyny (ex partner).