Right As Raine (Aster Valley Book #1)

Lucy Lennox's Aster Valley Book #1: "Right As Raine"

["Tiller:

As the first openly gay professional football player, I can’t afford to make any mistakes, on or off the field. And the absolute biggest mistake I could make right now would be to fall for Mikey Vining, my best friend, employee and, more importantly, Coach’s baby boy. I might fantasize about Mikey at night-—every night—but actually touching him would be a serious personal foul.

And falling for him? That’s completely out of bounds.

Mikey:

I’ve learned my lesson about falling for one of my dad’s players. They’re a bunch of spoiled jocks with more muscles than brains. I’ve spent years learning to keep my eyes, and my hands, to myself. But resisting the temptation becomes nearly impossible when Tiller Raine and I end up together in a small cabin in a remote Colorado town.

Suddenly, there’s not much to do but look at each other. And talk. And hopefully, hopefully touch.

But what happens when our stay in Aster Valley is over and it’s time to return to the real world? Will Coach blow the whistle on our relationship? Or will Tiller admit there might actually be something he loves more than football after all?"]

More adorable and hot idiots failing to communicate what they really want from each other (and taking ~300 pages to make it happen--though, there was a lot of external forces at play in this novel (family, careers, etc)).

What the the book blurb doesn't tell you, is 5 years after they start working together, they're best friends. So close that they're basically "That Married Couple". They're basically dating without all of the benefits. ;) But, like any romance book, they figure all of that stuff out...eventually.

The second official book comes out on Tuesday (I'll be there, if you didn't figure that), and the third novel comes out in June (which seems really far away, but it's not really...which I have a lot of feelings about, but we're moving on from that point).

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