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Player Next Door
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Complete, First published Jun 25, 2022
Mature
Twenty-seven is too young to be retired, unless you're Reese Beresford, a former pairs skating gold medalist who seemingly has it all. Anyone looking at her life would think it's perfect. She has a handsome boyfriend, a successful start-up athletic wear business, and the love of thousands of fans. But that gets turned upside down when a rival from her past accuses her of bullying. Overnight, Reese has been canceled.
    
  With her life in shambles, she needs to save her image, her fledgling athletic wear business, and her sanity, and that starts with dumping her toxic boyfriend, then finding a way out of current predicament. Unbeknownst to her, a new neighbor has moved in, and it's none other than the newest member of the Renegades hockey team, super-hot Grady Radcliffe, and they happen to share an agent.
    
  Their agent decides what better way to rehabilitate her image than a "love match" with the squeaky-clean hockey hunk. Grady is keen and Reese is intrigued, so she agrees but makes it clear that the relationship will remain fake.
    
   Or will it?
    
  As Reese works to prove the truth about her nemesis, she can't help but have feelings for the kind and sexy hockey player. And when Grady puts pressure on her to make their fake relationship real, can relationship-shy Reese keep it all on ice?
    
  In Player Next Door, the good guy rules.
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