by KATE STEWART
Lance
I was born to play and bred to win.
My priorities were instilled in me early on—family and football. Those ideals led me to TGU and a coach whose ironclad principles mirrored my own.
With one last college season to play, my goal was singular—get drafted. By realizing my NFL dream, I could save my family, our ranch, and the only home I’d ever known.
Two birds, one ball.
Playing hard was my only option, but there’s always a wild card.
For all of my planning and hard work, I never anticipated falling for the coach's daughter.
Harper was a fair catch, but who knew loving her could be the one play to throw my career before it started or that the weight of our secret would change the game.
REVIEW: 4.5 STARS
"It was pleasure and pain, worship and consummation."
Thisssss booook. I want to relive it. I want YOU to love it like I loved it. It definitely got me all caught up in a relationship I didn't know I wanted....just kidding. I've always wanted Lance's story - since the moment I met him in The Guy on the Right. Days later, I'm still thinking about this story and I can't seem to let them go. I love them. <sigh>
"I watch his struggle between vulnerability and anger."
I loved that not only did we get a vulnerable side to Harper, but we got one with Lance as well. What we "saw" of him from The Guy on the Right, he was pretty mysterious, so I loved getting a more in-depth look into who he was and what his circumstances were. Knowing this about Lance made me question the type of woman he 'needed' - not necessarily wanted. Two totally different worlds there. But upon taking that in, seeing Harper and who she was, her vulnerability was sexy as well. I loved the way Stewart wrote a strong woman that was completely relatable in that most of us try to put on the braver face, walk a little taller, not letting the world see us with our shoulders down. That is exactly who Harper was to me. Shoulders back, head held high, and she walked with conviction. I loved her!! She was such an amazing match for Lance, with all the spit and fire they had between them.
There is nothing better than reading and watching the evolution of a love develop so strongly right before your very eyes. Stewart nailed their vulnerability both together and separately. I couldn't get over the push and pull, the back -and- forth, that need and desire - the anger and the hurt. All of it mixes so well to provide an atmosphere that is electrically charged, and one I am so glad I got a glimpse of. There was a sort of intimacy with abandon with their story, and it just pulled at my heartstrings. I laughed, I swooned, I shook and I sighed. I want more of their story!!
"Why am I standing so close to the fire doused in kerosene?"
When I say that I felt this book, make no mistake about that. The ache of the reality between Harper and Lance's worlds colliding had ricochets far and wide, long beyond their cozy little world under the blankets. That depth, that reality I can't wait to explore MORE of....because there will be more of this story. There was way too much to tell in this little novella here, but what a great taste of turmoil she gave us at the end.
For being a novella, she gave me a full-bodied, rich story full of lust and desires, pain and anger - but most of all, she gave me a story that showcased what 'the one' can do for the heart and for that, I am most definitely looking forward to Lance's FULL story coming January 2020.
"Why can't I shake what I feel for her and chalk it up to curiosity?"
~BEE
Kate Stewart lives in Charleston, S.C. with her husband, Nick, and her naughty beagle, Sadie. A native of Dallas, Kate moved to Charleston three weeks after her first visit, dropping her career of 8 years, and declaring it her creative muse. Kate pens messy, sexy, angst-filled contemporary romance as well as romantic comedy and erotic suspense because it's what she loves as a reader. A lover of all things '80s and '90s, especially John Hughes films and rap, she dabbles a little in photography, can knit a simple stitch scarf for necessity only and does a horrible job of playing the ukulele. Aside from running a mile without collapsing, traveling is the only other must on her bucket list. On occasion, she does very well at vodka.
~CONNECT WITH KATE~
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