**Mature Content Warning** This is a New Adult novel recommended for ages 17+ due to language, sexual content, and mature subject matter.Determined to overcome a dark and tragic past, college student Everly Wallace is only months away from earning her degree in physical therapy. She’s consumed with school, caring for her ailing grandfather, and figuring out how to pay the next bill. The last thing she wants is a relationship, but it just might be the one thing she needs.
Major League pitcher Cole Parker hasn’t fought for anything in his life. He went from a privileged upbringing to a multimillion dollar All-Star career. But when his pitching shoulder starts to give him trouble at only twenty-four years old, he faces the possibility of his injury becoming public knowledge and costing him everything.
In a desperate bid to save his career, Cole decides to hire someone to treat his injury, someone who will keep things off the record and out of the media. He finds the perfect solution in Everly. As mysterious as she is beautiful, she provides an enticing distraction from his pain. Soon, physical therapy is the last thing on his mind.
When an act of betrayal brings the truths they both fear to light, Cole will have to fight for the first time in his life…not just for his career, but for Everly’s love.
4 Star Review
Everly is a 22 year-old physical therapy doctoral
student. She lives with her ailing
grandfather as her father is no longer in the country and her mother passed
away years ago. She provides for herself
and for her grandfather’s medical care by working as a waitress in a high-class
restaurant.
Cole is a 23 year-old major league pitcher and he is
hiding an injury to his shoulder as this would effect his contract signing that
is coming up this year. Cole’s brother
is Everly’s mentor at school and knows that she would be able to give Cole the
therapy he needs without betraying his trust and revealing his injury to the
public. Cole offers an elusive payment
for her services and Everly agrees to help him.
Cole and Everly put up a romantic pretense as their cover story. Because Cole is in the public eye, he
continually has a difficult time trusting anybody outside his inner
circle. This causes problems on more
than one occasion between him and Everly.
“What I’m trying to
do is find out why you think I should trust you not to tell anyone about our
arrangement when you haven’t been honest with me about your past.”-- Cole
And now we have the big question of what is so secretive
about Everly’s past? We know that she
led a pretty normal life up until the age of 14…then everything changed for her
and she was forced to grow up. Everly
never does anything for herself. She is
always thinking about others and ways to help them. It’s time for Everly to start living for
herself. Everly decides to give Cole
part of herself that has not belonged to anybody else.
“You can’t know
what this means to me. I’m honored and touched. And very, very eager.”—Cole
“I don’t know a whole
hell of a lot about you. But that’s because you won’t tell me any damn thing.” --
Cole
Things begin to happen to Everly that appear to be not
random acts. Why is she being
targeted? Is she in danger? Cole steps up to take care of her, which is
hard for Everly to allow.
Her emotions
tumbled over themselves. How long had it been since anyone saw to her
well-being? Since anyone worried about her enough to carry the fatigue she saw
in Cole’s eyes? Since anyone pushed against her stubborn arguments and insisted
that they take care of her?
I enjoyed the emotions that Everly allowed herself to
feel throughout the book since she has always been closed off. I didn’t take to Cole’s character
immediately…he put his foot in his mouth on more than one occasion and it was
fun to watch him grovel for her forgiveness.
Of course I had to forgive him, as did Everly. This
was a great stand-alone novel with the perfect amount of drama and romance.
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