Copper Valley Pounders book 1 read in 2025
Goldie is a life coach, author and influencer she has a great job which she loves and when we meet her she is going to be moving to England in a few short weeks for a great job opportunity that she doesn't want to pass up... she did that once for a man but not again.
Fletcher Huxley is a international rugby star who has recently been sent from a top tier team in England over to the Copper Valley Pounders in the US, Rugby in the states isn't as popular of a sport as it is in the rest of the world... but Fletcher wants to change that he's not a too old, washed up player that needs to quit he still has at least a few years in him and he's going to prove it to his ex coach and ex team mates when this new team is at the top of their game and selling out the venues where they play.
Fletcher is handsome (muscular/athletic) he looks like Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds had a baby... or at least that's what I pictured him looking like throughout the book since they kept bringing up the man's mustache, this was a bit much a few jokes about it fine... but it was throughout the whole book gah! Anyways back to our couple...
Fletcher is on the same team as Goldie's younger brother and they end up going to help Goldie's friends with a blood drive where he passes out on her (meet cute sort of...) they have met before (or at least been in the same place at the same time) briefly where Goldie over heard Fletcher bad mouthing her years prior when she was still playing soccer, she has since had to end her dreams of playing professionally due to an injury so she knows a thing or two about having to give up on a dream and looking for a way to work towards new goals.
Lately Goldie's brother has been sabotaging every relationship she has tried to have and she's sick of it she's an adult, so when she finds out that her brother hates Fletcher what would be better than fake dating the enemy, it works for both of them Fletcher is a twice divorced playboy and not looking for anything really serious and why shouldn't Goldie have a bit of fun prior to her big move.
Fletcher has an adorable dog, Goldie has lost her girl friends when her last serious relationship ended badly but has made friends with 3 adorable elderly ladies who have taken her into their group with loving arms and she has a super cute niece who also befriends Fletcher and Silas (Goldie's brother) isn't happy about it.
Spending more time together while faking their relationship naturally leads to their situationship and faking starting to feel more real especially when they talk about child hood issues and past relationships and what went wrong. But Goldie is leaving soon and Fletcher doesn't really want anything serious he has been there done that and he doesn't want to get burned again.
I have read other stories by this author and they tend to be pretty kooky/quirky at times as far as plot and dialogue goes so prepare for that if you decide to read this book or any of her other books. I enjoyed this more than the last Pippa Grant book I read, but there were definitely some cringe dialogue/moments and I didn't really see them "falling" for each other in such a short period of time, I would consider it insta lust/love at that point since they spent such a short amount of time together.
I did finish the book and got the second book in this series which I plan to read soon.
what is your favorite Pippa Grant book?
*sports romance *rugby romance *female lead was a soccer player *enemies --> more
*Brooding MMC *Grumpy/sunshine *friends --> more *fake dating/fake relationship
*younger brother's team mate *spice *Slow burn *happy ending *banter *humor *drama
--> author mentions different characters race and sometimes sexual orientation throughout the book after reading some other reviews there was a pattern where some readers found it hard to over look with how often it was mentioned even with characters only brought up once where it wasn't something the reader needed to know.
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