How it’s never a linear process, how life keeps on going, how one can still find humor even when still sad, and how sometimes grief makes us make self-destructive decisions. I feel like one of Skeeter’s lines about how Sonia is a vegetarian to be healthy, yet smokes those, well yeah.

Ronan's life is forever changed after an accident that kills his fiancée and sidelines his professional football career. This was such a sweet, deep, small town sports romance, and I’m so happy to have received an early digital copy to review!Why I really loved this book though, is the combination of small town charm, the beautiful sibling relationship between the heroine and her sister, the nosy neighbours who are overbearing but mean well, the small nuggets of parental wisdom which the heroine inherited and she kept passing forward, the epilogue, there’s probably a few other reasons. I love that it had some of my favorite tropes like fake dating, small town romance, and sports romance. Sign up for her newsletter and receive insider info about new releases and exclusive giveaways: www. Ronan is retired from the NFL and has moved from NYC to Texas to coach a promising high school team.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. He’s looking to move up his career ladder, but everyone in town is trying to wife him up so that he'll stay at the school. He's spent nearly a year trying to rehab his injuries, without success and has turned to drink to drown his grief and guilt. It’s been quite a while since my last read from Ilsa Madden-Mills and that is an absolute crime because I truly adore her writing. But I loved everything about him especially how he cared for Nova everytime and her family and how he loves star wars.While the story centers around the romance, I loved the added message of self discovery and how, at the start, neither one of them wanted to be in Blue Belle, but how that evolves by the end. They both had issues that were barriers to their romance so it was a bit of a slow burn but when they finally move past that it was absolutely explosive! There’s one part in the book where the hero uses a slightly less common word and the heroine is all “woooow you’re so smart, who uses words like that when they speak? After an unexpected proposal, Nova finds herself fake dating the one man who could be dangerous for her heart.