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Emily Jones is a journalist it's been a life long dream to cover top stories and she's part of the way there working at a top London news station... however she gets puff pieces that are not going to boost her career... so when everyone at the station is busy and they have received news of a car accident involving a super model and a famous football star Emily and her camera man Ryan are on it... turns out that Emily is a little closer to this story than she realized upon arriving to the hospital she finds out some horrible news.
The supermodel involved is Emily's best friend and room mate Liza she is now in a coma and her mom and security have turned away all of the other reporters but she knows that Emily won't do anything to harm Liza or her reputation and will still be able to give the viewers what they want to hear. Emily at first doesn't want to cover the story related to not wanting to profit from her best friends current situation but Liza's mother insists, it is a huge story and will boost ratings for the station and put her in a better place to continue to receive better stories and Liza would want Emily to grab that opportunity.
Things get more complicated when we find that Liza's boyfriend who was driving the car is famous football star Jake Adams... Emily's school crush is a man now and even hotter than he was when they were teenagers. Jake was Emily's first kiss & first love (even if she doesn't want to fully acknowledge that fact)... Jake also broke her heart being the leader of a group of school bullies who did a number of horrible things to her (including giving her a terrible nick name Beefy) that even now years later she's finding it hard to get over and being close to him again is bringing back old feelings.
Jake has had several recent situations that have cast him in a bad light this last incident being an argument with his girlfriend Liza ending up in a MVA now Liza is in a coma and a kid he hit in the accident is injured (the kid is ok some injuries but will heal). Jake would like to be the captain of the football team, his manager feels it would be good for his image to show that he isn't the horrible person that the media has recently made him out to be, he will let someone do a story on his life and interview those close to him but he is only willing to work with Emily... but how can Emily shine a ray of golden light on the guy who made her teenage years miserable.
Throughout the book we see that Jake is a sweet guy and Emily really was not aware of the full story of what happened in school. I did find myself getting a bit frustrated with Emily at times as she tended to be really dramatic and kept running away from Jake (or others) when they were trying to explain to her the full situation. I also got a bit irritated with Jake for not just telling her what was going on (lots of misunderstanding surrounding this). I loved several of the side characters like Ryan he is true friendship goals, a few of Jakes team mates and Jake's sister.
Some drama and a lot of miscommunication/no communication at times since Emily is frequently not responding to texts or answering calls from our lead guy. Emily feels guilty after finally giving into her feelings towards Jake... since he is dating her best friend who is in a coma... what is she going to do, she can't watch them in a relationship and she can't seem to stay away from him either. What will she/they do when Liza finally wakes up?
Cute quick read! would recommend to people looking for their next romantic read! Gave me "While you were sleeping" kind of vibes.
*sports romance (football/soccer) * enemies to lovers *some humor *Indie author
* trigger warnings for school bullying and loss of parent
*POV from leading females side only
*some drama *happy ever after *very low spice (brief mentions)
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