Series: / standalone
Pages: 367
Genre: 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.
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Honestly, this book wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. There were some things in it that just didn't make much sense, but the writing was amazing and the chemistry between main characters was crazy good. It's hard not to love K.A. Tucker.
But second-chance romances are always difficult to portray right. In this case, it was about high school sweethearts who dated briefly and then broke up. Shane was seen with another girl the next day and that completely broke Scarlet's heart.
Years later, they become neighbours when Scarlet moves into the house next to his. They reconnect, although Scarlet has her reservations about him. But he's a changed man now.
Scarlet is still nursing an ache from what happened back then and she has trouble trusting him again.
I think my disappointment lays in the reason Shane broke up with Scarlet, although, at 17, it's true that a lot of them are not serious to the point of having a committed relationship with someone, yet it was still unreasonable.
Now, Shane has a child with a crazy ex he got pregnant in high school and Scarlet is his teacher, which complicates things for them even more.
But, overall, this story wasn't terrible at all. The chemistry between Shane and Scarlet was incredible and it was a joy reading about them and K. A. Tucker's writing was on point. The story held a lot of playful, funny and romantic moments. Shane also changed a lot since high school days and he was now a man of honour, trust-worthy man and got his life together enough to have a healthy relationship with someone with no hidden intentions and without deceiving the woman he was with again.
If anything, this was a bittersweet romance with a lot of obstacles thrown at them that they had to overcome. But it still turned out to be a beautiful story.
K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge.
She is the internationally bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, The Simple Wild, Be the Girl, and Say You Still Love Me. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Oprah Mag, and First for Women. 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. KEEP HER SAFE made Suspense Magazine's Best of 2018 list for Romantic Suspense.
K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto.
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She is the internationally bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series, He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, The Simple Wild, Be the Girl, and Say You Still Love Me. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Oprah Mag, and First for Women. 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. KEEP HER SAFE made Suspense Magazine's Best of 2018 list for Romantic Suspense.
K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto.
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