BLURB ➞
I know finding and signing a military vet to the agency is a long shot–but it’ll be good press just letting him try out. That’s what I tell my family, rather than admit I can’t get the letter he wrote us five years ago out of my head.
But what I tell the bartender in his hometown is a lie. I know veterans protect each other. So I pretend to be a graduate student.
Sparks. Flame. Fire. I accidentally got in too deep.
I didn’t expect to develop feelings for Gunner Camden.
And there’s no way I can admit to my lies now, not without destroying what we share. So I’ll keep faking it.
***
There are two versions of me: before, and after deployment.
Back then I was a screwup kid. I’d lie, cheat, and steal my way out of everything. My only love was baseball.
After I started fighting, I found out there had been another path for me. One that involved my dream. But by then I had seen too much.
The old me was dead, so I put my dreams to rest, too.
Then Chase Kinkade walks into my bar and reminds me that life is meant to live. No regrets.
Fresh. Happy. Hopeful. I can start to see a new dream, with her.
But sometimes things are too good to be true… and dishonesty is the one thing I can’t forgive.
I can’t ask you to be who you’re not. I can’t ask you to stay when you have a whole goddamn world to conquer.
ARC REVIEW ➞
When a letter shows up five years after it was sent Chase Kincade is determined to find the man who had sent it and this leads her to a small town.
Ryan ‘Gunnar’ Camden had a promising baseball career, at least until he joined the military and what was left of his old life no longer existed. Baseball became a form of therapy for him, but that was it. He spent his time running a small town bar and helping children who have lost parents in combat. Chase is kind of lost when it comes to her life. She has walls to protect herself thanks to her cheating ex, Finn, but she is drawn to Ryan just based on single letter. When she meets Gunnar on her quest, there is a connection and the two are instantly drawn to each other. But when secrets come out is it something that they will be able to overcome?
I loved Chase and I am glad to finally know more about her, since there wasn’t a whole lot in any of the previous books of the series. I loved seeing her find herself and slowly let down the walls she had built. Gunnar, well how can you not love him? He is caring, sweet, and giving. He still struggles with what he experienced while in combat, but Chase quickly becomes someone that can help those nightmares stay away. I couldn’t get enough of the two of them together!
If you’re looking for a sports romance meets military romance this is one to check out!
