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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With her nose in books and his brawn getting him nowhere on or off the ice, they find themselves drawn together, sharing their baggage and learning what it might mean for each of them to love again.
Jake Bryers is no stranger to the pressures of being a professional hockey player. It's something that he's dealt with consistently for the past fifteen years. Throughout his career, he's experienced it all-the electric thrill of winning divisions and conference titles, and even making it to the Stanley Cup Finals on more than one occasion. His dream was always to skate the cup at least once, but as he enters the late stage of his long, tumultuous career, he finds himself struggling to perform like he once had as a younger, inspired player.
Harper Clark has been proficient at one thing throughout her life-constantly moving forward without really going anywhere. After having moved to the Big Apple to pursue a better life outside of the dangerous one she found herself leading in the Midwest, she finds herself stagnating after getting her degree from Columbia. She quietly enjoys her job at the public library, treading water while the undeniable feeling of discontent grows stronger within her.
It's nothing short of fate when Jake and Harper happen to cross paths at the library, and though their lives couldn't be any more different, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another as they try to navigate mending each other's wounded hearts.