My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It all started with a bet.
When my young son inherited half of his great grandfather’s historic inn, I decided to move us both to the place where I grew up.
Notice I said half of the Inn. The other half now belonged to Levi Miller, the famous quarterback who had other ideas about what we should do with the property.
We won’t mention that I accidentally injured him during our first meeting, causing him to get eight stitches.
You could say we got off on the wrong foot.
We bickered a lot as we both moved into the property while we figured things out.
He wanted to unload the rundown place which, admittedly, needed a lot of work.
I wanted to restore The Palm Inn to its original beauty and re-open it as a bed and breakfast.
We couldn’t agree on anything. So Levi made me a proposal. One he thought I would surely lose. If I could sell out the place by the time he had to leave for training at the end of summer, he would back off and let me run it.
But in the weeks that followed, we got more than we bargained for while we were living under the same roof.
Levi and I got closer, and before I knew it, my nightly fantasies about the brawny Adonis became a reality. Not to mention, he was so great with my son.
We were in over our heads in more ways than one.
Because not only was he the last man on Earth I should be falling for because of our deal, but Levi was also my ex’s older brother.
And now the inn was the least of my problems.Well Played
Smexy sports romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Presley Sullivan – she grew up in Beaufort South Carolina, dated a football player named Tanner Miller all through high school and she moved to New York with him to go to college. After college, he got drafted by the NFL but had a career ending injury not long into his first season. Presley has been raising their son as a single parent after catching him with other women on two separate occasions. Tanner has been a deadbeat dad with a gambling problem ever since, so when their son Alex inherited half of a bed and breakfast in Presley’s home town, she decided to move down there and bring up her son in the town where she grew up.
The Hero: Levi Miller – he was the Quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the MVP of the last Super Bowl. He is also the older brother of Tanner, and he inherited the other half of the bed and breakfast from his grandfather when he died. He travels down top Beaufort, where he grew up, to sell the inn and is surprised to find that Presley and Alex are there, and that Presley doesn’t want to sell the place. Despite the fact that it is practically falling down.
The Story: Levi doesn’t date much since he has a hard time finding a woman who actually wants to know him and be with him and not a gold digger or someone who just wants to be with someone famous. Presley hasn’t dated much since she broke up with Tanner, since she has been focused on raising her seven-year-old son. When they are living together at the house in Beaufort, they become closer and learn that they didn’t really know each other before. They also find that they are attracted to each other.
I liked the chemistry between these two characters. The sexual tension was pretty hot. There was the added tension of the fact that Levi was the brother of Presley’s ex and her son’s uncle, so he was kind of forbidden. I actually really liked this book. Usually, the exes brother trope bores me a bit because the whole thing revolves around the two main characters being afraid to tell the ex what is going on, and this was that for a bit, but they had their reasons and it wasn’t just that dating your brothers ex goes against bro code.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Sebastian York and Andi Arndt. These two are some of my favorite narrators. Sebastian York has a deep, gravelly voice that sounds so genuine, you can’t help but like him. Andi Arndt has a clear, yet soft voice and has a pretty good voice for male characters as well, she also has the southern accent down pat.
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