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Ex-childhood best friends

Enemies-to-lovers

Football player and cheerleader

Workplace romance

Forbidden romance

Second chance romance

Slow burn

Found family

Interconnected standalone

Lavender and Linebackers is a contemporary sports romance about a rookie linebacker and a professional cheerleader, once childhood best friends and now enemies, who are forced to work together on a major marketing campaign despite a rule forbidding them from being together.

When fate forces time with the enemy . . . tackle it.

Ryder Monroe
Alice Monarch is my biggest regret. My childhood best friend turned enemy.

I knew there was a possibility I’d see her. I just never imagined it would be on day one of my rookie season as a linebacker for the Tampa Tarpons. I’m a football player. She’s a cheerleader. There’s a reason the handbook strictly forbids it.

What I never saw coming was the organization pairing us together for a major marketing campaign. Saying no isn’t an option. It’s in my contract that I’m required to say yes. Now I’m stuck with her for months, representing the Tarpons around town. I hate her, and she hates me.

The only problem? I can’t stop looking at her. She’s smart, kind, even more beautiful than I remember, and the more time I spend with her, the harder it becomes to understand why I let her go.

Alice Monarch
The rules are in place for a reason. Football players and cheerleaders are off-limits.

For years, I’ve compared every man I’ve ever met to Ryder Monroe. He was my first love, my best friend, and the one person I never imagined living without. Until he ruined us, left town, and ghosted me.

Now, years later, we’re being thrown back together. Okay, “forced” isn’t entirely accurate. I chose this because the Tarpons agreed to sponsor my youth cheer team, the Mighty Monarchs.

This team is my everything. I’d do anything for them. Even work side by side with the man who broke my heart. It doesn’t matter that Ryder still has the most irresistible smile I’ve ever seen or that he can still make my heart race. My career and sponsorship are on the line. The only problem? The more time I spend with him, the harder it becomes to remember why I swore I’d never forgive him.

*****5 Absolutely Incredible Slow Burn Stars*****

Lavender and Linebackers by Kathryn Andrews is one of my favorite books I’ve read this year. When I tell y’all this book completely swept me up and took my heart by storm, I mean that with every fiber of my being. Alice and Ryder and their second chance at at all with their incredible and undeniable connection gave me life in this book. That coupled with the incredible world of characters that this series brings, Kathryn Andrews, charming and beautiful writing, and a love that was years in the making made for the perfect romance from start to finish. This book is not only one of my favorite books. I’ve read this year, but it might just be one of my favorites from Kathryn Andrews. And that is a big thing to say because I have LOVED every single book I’ve read by this author, but this one is truly something special.

This book and the story I got with these characters completely blew me and my heart away. The emotion of it all, the tension of it all, the angst and yearning of it all, I was here for every breath of it. I could not help but be consumed into everything that Alice and Ryder shared together. Those two may have been ex besties and enemies, but they soon become SO much more in this book and I was LIVING for that more in every incredible word of this book. What Kathryn Andrews infuses into this book with her characters and their love story is something I will truly never forget.

I do not say it lightly when I say that this is one of my favorite books I have read from her and this year and honestly ever because that is how much I absolutely loved every second I got with Alice and Ryder and their unforgettable love story.

Lavender and Linebackers had it all. It had the ex best friends, enemies to lovers, grumpy, sunshine, goodness that bought alllll of the connection and fire between these two. It had a found family of characters that I have LOVED getting to fall in love with across every book of this world and series. It had the best force proximity and second chance romance vibes as Alice and Ryder were forced to be together again and face the world of feeling and hurt and longing that had blossomed and grown over the many years they’d known each other and been apart. It also had the forbidden romance goodness between a cheerleader and a football player that added just another incredible layer to this utterly consuming story.

This book follows Alice and Ryder who are at the precipice of living out their lifelong dreams and are forced back together again in a way neither of them expected.

You see the two of them used to be best friends, and honestly, there was definitely some more happening between them. But things happened and their friendship broke apart, and they haven’t seen or talked to each other in years. And in those years, a lot of hurt and emotion took root, but these two kept working their butts off to make their life long dreams come true. But on their very first days in their dream careers as a professional football player and professional cheerleader, they are brought face-to-face again and told that they will soon be spending the next months very close together. You see their new football team knows that they used to be inseparable and decide to use that as their new marketing campaign, so these two who currently can’t stand to be around each other, soon realize they will be spending a lot of time together.

The sparks are flying, all of the buttons are about to be pushed, and these two are bound and determined to get under each other’s skin because of the way they make each other feel and what they bring out in one another. They are also both determined to keep some very strong walls and boundaries between them because they can’t let themselves and their hearts feel the world of emotion and feeling they are trying to feel. But the more time these two are together, and the more they learn about the lives they’ve led while apart and see each other in the truth and vulnerability of who they really are, the more they both realize that they not only have to figure out what went so terribly wrong in their past, but also what they could both do to see a future together.

Their hearts and futures are both on the line, their past is a bit of a mystery that needs to be pieced together, and their present is a glorious slow burning culmination of connection, fire, questions, vulnerability, and more emotion than you can shake a stick at….and honestly, that’s just scratching the surface of what you get and this phenomenal romance with Alice and Ryder.

Suffice to say, I loved every aspect of this book and every bit of what this story brought to life between this couple. I was here for the slow burn of it all. I was utterly consumed within every bit of their incredible and unadulterated connection that built and built fiercely over the course of the story. But most of all I was just completely invested in every second and emotion and breath of what Alice and Ryder share together. Those two have a world of history and this book and it’s events force them to come face-to-face and heart to heart with it all. The tension between them, the level of fire that is so fierce between them, and the pull that just keeps bringing them back together again in every way that matters is just part of what you get in their phenomenal story.

From the very first moment, I started the prologue of this book, I immediately fell in love with Alice and Ryder. I loved what they brought out in one another, I loved what they made each other question and feel, but most of all I love that they just clearly imprinted on each other’s hearts and souls in every way that mattered. In a way that changed everything for the two of them. And even if it took them years and so many moments of hurt and longing and emotion to figure out what that looks like and what it all meant, it was there and it was true and it was real, and so so beautiful. It was them. And getting to see and experience that with them of the course of this book just pulled my heart to theirs fiercely.

Alice is a true gem of a character. I mean, she is goodness and sunshine personified. Not only is she an incredible cheerleader, but she is just a genuinely good person. She owns a nonprofit, she cares deeply, and she wants to bring so much good to those around her. She is truly a light and that shines through every moment you get with her. You can’t help but smile and just be happy in her presence, and it is impossible not to love her. She truly has such a heart of gold, and I loved getting to see her celebrate that and getting to see those around her bask in it. She also gives it her all in every way that matters and that shines across this book and the moments you get with her.

Not only do you get all of those incredible moments where her light, beauty, and true magic shines in this book, but you also get moments with her where she is so real and vulnerable and honest with what she felt. She has experienced a lot over the years that her and Ryder were apart, and this book brings all of that back up to the surface for both of them. It forces hard conversations, it pushes for explanations, and it breaks down the many walls that both Alice and Ryder have built around their hearts. But what I loved about Alice is that she was so true to herself through all of that, and still pushed herself and Ryder out into the open with everything they felt, even when it wasn’t easy. And through it all she was still there with her heart of gold that felt everything, and that believed in all of the beauty possibilities that could be. I just absolutely loved that about her and just loved getting to spend time with her character. She felt like one of my besties and I could have spent a million more moments with her.

Now Ryder was his own gem of a character. That man definitely puts the grump and grump, but he also has his own heart of gold. He has so many feelings that are buried behind the fortress of walls he has built around his heart to protect himself. But even through the bricks of that wall that he’s so carefully built over the years, you see that he is such a genuinely good guy. You see that he cares, you see that there is so much connection to be had, and you see that he cares about those around him with his whole heart. You also see that that world of feeling for Alice never ever went away, even though he tried to pretend it did. And the more that that man tries to push against and fight against what is right in front of his face and heart, the more he soon realizes that this is a losing battle and one that he might actually not want to win.

What I loved about Ryder’s character was that I just felt so pulled to him. I felt pulled to his heart and his emotional journey. I felt pulled to his dreams that he was right on the precipice of. I felt pulled to his vulnerable side that was right there at the surface, especially when Alice was around. I felt pulled to the pieces of his past that helped me understand so much of what made him who he was in the present tense of this book. I just felt so pulled into everything that I got with his character because I understood every bit of where it came from through what this author created with him. I just loved that grumpy man so much not only because he was such a genuinely good man with such a sweetheart under that grumpy surface, but mostly because the true depth of his feelings were right there all along. And when they’re brought to the light and the surface, it is nothing short of everything. In fact, it’s utterly breathtaking with what you experience with him and Alice.

Trust me on that.

Let me tell you that the more pieces you get of Alice and Ryder and their story will have you knowing that these two have to find a way back to one another. There is something just so truly right and special and meant to be about those two that you feel in your bones reading this book and that pulls you through every breath of this story with them. It not only shows you that they have to be together because there can be no reality without these two basking in the world of feeling and love that they so clearly share for one another, but also because there’s just no world in which they’re not endgame together. It is those truths that pull you through everything these characters go through because you feel it in your soul through every breath of this incredible book that Alice and Ryder have to find that happily ever after because they are meant to be and find each other in every lifetime.

Those two are just beyond meant to be for each other, and even in the moments where they push each other‘s buttons and drive each other crazy and make each other question everything, they also know that there is no denying the world of connection and love and history between them. Getting to be with them in this book as they put all the pieces back together again, as they find their way back to what once was, and as they weave together their own presents for the possibility of building an incredibly beautiful future together is absolutely EVERYTHING.

Through every single incredible word of this book that Kathryn Andrews brings to life with this couple, you feel it so deep in your heart that these two have to find a way back to one another. And getting to be with them as they do just that, as they put the pieces of the past together, as they spend more and more time in the present realizing the truth of their feelings has always been right in front of them, and as they both look towards the future they had long stopped hoping for, but finally have a chance at again, is truly nothing short of everything. It’s honestly more than that because you feel so emotionally connected and invested to the two of them, what they make each other feel, and what they share together. The magic and the fire and the vibrancy of it all is truly unforgettable and incredible to experience, and it pulls every piece of your heart into the story with this couple.

Trust me when I say there is truly no resisting the heart of it all with Alice and Ryder, and when it all comes to be for them, you will be living and loving and experiencing every breath of it in a way that will truly give you it all. And just prepare yourself now for the feels of it all because it will not only give you everything to experience what you do with the two of them and the slow burn buildup of what they share, but getting to be there in the moment when it all changes for them will truly take your breath away. And then some. It will definitely bring some tears to your eyes because it is truly one of the most beautiful moments I have ever read in a romance book, and it honestly blew my heart and soul away to see what these characters truly felt for one another.

Getting to feel so connected to these two just made for a hell of a love story that I know I will never forget. Kathryn Andrews put you in the heart of this story with Alice and Ryder and her beautiful writing allows you to feel it all with them. But more than that, it just allows you to experience every bit of connection and love and yearning between them while also experiencing the best found family of characters that you could ask for.

This world is one that I will never tie of and getting to be with all of these characters, being a part of this incredible football team, and just getting to see all of these players find their perfect match has been the reading experience of a lifetime. I honestly can’t say that enough. Getting to be with all of them in every new book of this world and getting to experience the incredible connection they all share is truly the best thing to feel. It just pulls your heart even more fiercely to all of these characters you know and love, knowing that they are there for each other through thick and thin. This found family is truly something special, and you feel that in every breath of this book with these characters, in every single one of their interactions, in the group text chats, in the “you’ve been caught” moments, and in every moment where they push each other to be the best versions of themselves. I am already counting down the days until I can be back with this incredible world of characters because they truly are family to each other and to you as the reader, as you experience every single fantastic moment with them.

Lavender and Linebackers is Kathryn Andrews at her best. This book is just the epitome of the perfect romance. It has so much connection, so much heart and emotion, but most of all it has a couple that you love and believe in with your whole heart. It has a love story that puts you and these characters through the ringer a bit, but you honestly love and treasure every second of it because you just get to experience everything with these characters as they find their way back to one another. They may start off as best friends, who then become enemies, who then become reluctant coworkers, who then become so much more, but through it all, you know that they are soulmates and meant to be, and that their hearts and they’re true selves will see themselves through it all.

Getting to live an experience every second of this book with Alice and Ryder will definitely not only have you loving the two of them fiercely, and believing in every possibility their second chance brings them, but it will also just have you knowing that there is no ending that exists without the two of them together because it has always just been the two of them. In the past, in the present, and in all the futures they can imagine, it’s always the two of them, and it always will be because they are beyond meant to be. Their love, their undeniable level of connection, and what they make each other feel and believe in and hope for will truly see you through every second of this book with the two of them. And it will have you knowing that their unforgettable and hard fought love can see those two through every piece of their past to create an utterly beautiful future together.

I truly could go on and on about how amazing this book was and how much I loved this couple, but I honestly wouldn’t even come close to capturing what it was like to experience their love story. Their love and what these two give each other will truly steal every piece of your heart, and you will gladly give it to Alice and Ryder because these two may fight like hell and push each other‘s buttons, but they also feel everything for each other and are there when it truly matters. Getting to see these two find their way back to one another is truly nothing short of everything and Kathryn Andrews allows you to experience the beauty and the magic and the yearning of it all in a way you’ll never forget. Trust me on that.

Lavender and Linebackers delivers one of the most consuming, effervescent, and unforgettable romances that I have read this year and honestly ever, and I for one cannot tell you enough how much you NEED this book in your life. Alice and Ryder will show you every piece of their hearts in this book, and you will take all of them and will honestly bask in what it allows you to experience with them as those pieces come together in their love story. The heart of it all, the fire and connection of it all, the beautiful vulnerability and emotion, and the truth and light and sparkle that shines in every moment they are together will have you knowing that these two have to find a way to repair their broken hearts because they are the most deserving of a happily ever after…together. As they were always meant to be.

Kathryn Andrews delivers the most incredible romance in this book with this couple so just trust me when I say that you NEED this book in your life as soon as humanly possible. You will love getting to experience every breath of what you do with Alice and Ryder and getting to be a part of this incredible found family of characters that you will immediately want more of. So just do yourself a favor and run yourself to this book. Run yourself to it with an open heart ready to feel and live and breathe every effervescent and vibrant and consuming word of it as you fall so in love with this couple and what they share together. You will love it and them and every moment along the way that pulls you and them closer to that much deserved happily ever after.

Trust me. Alice and Ryder are absolutely EVERYTHING and their second chance at it all will blow you and your heart away. And then some.💜

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🧡 Brother’s Best Friend

🏈 Football Romance

🧡 Roommates/Close Proximity

🏈 Secret Romance Author

🧡 Teenage Crush

🏈 Golden Retriever Hero

🧡 Slow Burn

🏈 Interconnected Standalone

When fate delivers a roommate . . . don’t block it.

Tyler Quinn

There is a beautiful woman unexpectedly living in my house. A woman I sort of know because she’s my best friend’s little sister. Although, she’s definitely not so little anymore.

My entire professional career, I’ve been the starting tight end for the Tampa Tarpons. Life as a football player keeps me in the spotlight, when my preference is the dark. Through unfortunate past experiences, I guard my privacy and don’t do roommates, ever. But when my best friend calls and says he needs a favor, I don’t say no. Although I wish I had. Now she’s here, with her gorgeous turquoise eyes, big trusting smile, and taking up my spot on my couch. I’ve established the rules for how this is going to go, but as time passes and she opens up, I find it’s becoming harder and harder not to break them.

Lily Kent

If I know one thing for certain, I’m never dating another football player again.

After walking away from a very long and expired relationship, I needed a place to stay to plan out my life. My new life. I can work anywhere, so when my brother suggests crashing with his best friend Tyler, I say,”Yes.” Who doesn’t love palm trees, sunshine, and an attractive roommate? Tyler is the definition of tall, dark, and handsome, but the best part is he’s also kind. He makes me feel grounded when everything else feels upside down. He makes me feel things I wasn’t expecting. I know I said no more athletes, but in those moments when his hand grazes my back or when he makes me laugh, I wonder about my plans. Maybe I should change them, maybe we should, after all, fate did lead me to his door.

I have been reading and loving books by Kathryn Andrews for over a decade now, and I cannot say enough how much I love her books. She always encapsulates incredible characters, heart touching stories, so much feeling and emotion and connection, along with so many other layers that truly set her world and her books apart. I have loved every book by this author. I have been addicted to her words for quite some time now and I don’t ever see that changing. And I wouldn’t want it to change because this author just has such a way of developing you with everything you get with her characters and it is truly the best.

Tiger Lilies and Tight Ends is an absolutely incredible addition to the Tampa Tarpon Series that Kathryn Andrews has so vividly and incredibly created. I love this world. I love the world of this football team, I love the found family vibes this entire series gives off, but more than that I just love that this world connects so many of the books and characters that I’ve loved by this author into a place where they can play an incredible game on and off the field, while feeling everything, and falling in love with their soulmates. I truly love this series and can’t get enough. Every moment with these characters just makes my heart happy and makes me smile so beyond bag.

And getting this story with Tyler and Lily was absolutely everything.

Tyler and Lily have the most undeniable connection that was tangible through every second of their story. Those two were meant to be. Even when they fought against their feelings, even when that slow burn was slow burning, they felt it. It was there. It was real. And it threatened to pull them under in the best way. I love getting to be there with the two of them as they reconnected, as they embraced what they were feeling, and as they allowed those scales to tip and finally give into everything that could be. There is something so inherently right about the two of them that you feel from the moment you meet them. Something so real and true and their connection, and the way that these two show that and create that and allow you to experience that with them over the course of this book is utterly incredible.

From the moment I started this book, I could not get enough of everything between Tyler and Lily. Those two are the definition of friends who become so much more. Tyler is Lily‘s brother‘s best friend and she has always had a thing for him. Fresh off of her own break up she needs time to regroup. And with one phone call that brings her to Tyler, someone she hasn’t seen in quite some time. These two definitely get off to a bit of a rocky and awkward start, but it’s only because there is so much there between them. And the more that these two settle into being roommates and friends and something so much more, the more that their hearts come right to the line with them as they fall so truly, and deeply for one another.

Kathryn Andrews and her amazing writing put you right in the thick of it with these two and you will love it. That is one of the many qualities I love about how this author writes her books. She just invests you in her characters, and each of their own journeys, and in the romance, they built together. She puts you right in the thick of it with them on the pages of her book and you’re able to live and breathe and feel every bit of what these characters do. It just puts you in the heart of the story in the best way, and it has you needing for the two of them to find their way. I felt that from the very first moment I met Tyler and Lily and I just loved these two getting to show that their friendship was so much more.

Lily was the female heroine of my dreams. Not only is she a secret romance, author, but she just has a genuine heart of gold. She is someone just trying to reevaluate her life, make a new plan, and figure out what she needs to do next. I really resonated with that and her while reading this book. And I also just loved how genuinely good of a heart and person she was. That girl feels with her whole heart and she is just so good. But more than that, she just wants to find her place and find the place where she can be celebrated with those who aren’t afraid to celebrate and love her loudly. I loved getting to go along with this journey in this book while she figured out what came next, well also finding the person who was ready to give her everything she deserved and more.

Tyler was a man who I loved from the very first moment I met him. I loved getting to peel back the layers of what made him the guy that he was. He is funny and genuine, and has a heart of gold himself, but he also has been through it. You get to understand that and you get to understand why there are certain walls that he’s put up. I loved over the course of this book that not only did Lily help chip away at those walls, but she helped Tyler realize that he didn’t really want those walls in the first place, as he also took them down himself. I loved getting to be with Tyler as he felt what he did, as he fought with his whole heart for Lily and what could be, and as he allowed himself to bask in the possibility of a chance at something incredible. This man deserved the best of everything and I loved getting to see him realize that in this book.

Lily and Tyler both on themselves at a crossroads in a lot of ways over the course of this book. She is fresh off of a break up and he is someone who has been closed off romantically for a long time. When these two are together not only did they build a genuine friendship that reignites so much connection between them, but they start to feel so much more for one another. And that more is beautiful, it’s deep and vulnerable and real, and it forces the two of them to realize that what they may have thought they wanted could be so much more with one another.

I loved getting to watch the two of them take chances with each other.

Getting to watch them, put their hearts on the line even when it’s scared them out of their minds. Getting to be there as they took a chance on each other and on themselves in the future. Getting to be connected to their story as they figured it out, as they fought for what could be, and as they put their hearts on the line when it really mattered was absolutely everything. And I loved every single second I got with them in this book on that journey. I loved how those two weren’t afraid to be vulnerable, weren’t afraid to pull back those layers and show each other the real them, and I loved that they also weren’t afraid to love each other loudly when it really mattered.

One pinky swear at a time, those two pulled me under with them into the fierce level of connection and love that they were building and sharing, and it was absolutely beautiful.

This author once again immersed me in the world of football that I just truly can’t get enough of. When I tell you this series is my happy place I mean it. Every book by this author is my happy place, but this series especially. It is the meeting point of so many incredible characters and stories that I’ve loved from this author, well also setting up so many possibilities for future stories that I cannot wait to get my hands on. This author perfectly weaves together the dynamics and friendships and family that these characters are within this world and it is truly everything to experience.

This football team is something special and you feel that in your bones while reading this book and every book in this series. I love the connections between these players, I live for their group chats and the TikTok challenges, but more than that I just love that they genuinely care about one another, and that they truly are this family that will do anything for each another. These characters love to push each other‘s buttons, they love to push each other when it’s really needed, but more than that they love to be there for one another. I loved once again, being back in the heart of this team and getting to watch the sports players give it they’re all on and off the field.

Kathryn Andrews truly finds the best balance in creating a sports romance that gives you that heart and romance and spice and connection, while giving you the sports and the outside world and everything in between. It truly comes together to make the perfect package and an unforgettable romance. I can’t say that enough.

Tiger Lilies and Tight Ends is a book that I cannot say enough good things about. This book is definitely one of my top reads of the year and definitely one of my favorites from this author. It just was so beyond good to read and experience. It made me smile, it made me melt with these characters, it definitely made me blush with some of the moments they share, but more than that it just made me believe in everything they were feeling and experiencing together. Tyler and Lily are soulmates. They were meant to find each other in this book. While the start of this book finds them both at a crossroads not exactly sure what comes next, the middle finds them willing to put in the work for themselves and each other to see what could be, and the end of finds them creating something so perfect and true and real that truly took my breath away.

I loved every single word and page and moment of this book. Tyler and Lily are the actual best. And this world and this series and this football team is somewhere that I cannot wait to be back in. I’m already keeping my fingers crossed that this author will write all of the books for all of these incredible characters because I need every one of their stories. I think that just speaks to what she creates in every one of her books that I truly can never get enough. I’m always ready for more, I’m always ready for the next book, and I’m always ready to see what she will create with her characters and their unforgettable stories.

Kathryn Andrews continues to be one of my favorite authors for a reason because she pours her heart and soul into every word of her books and it shines on every page. I felt that through every breath of this story with Tyler and Lily as they went from roommates to friends to so much more. Their story was consuming, epically, romantic, and just so beyond sweet and spicy, and all kinds of amazing. Those two stole my heart from the very first moment I met them, and with each new pinky promise, they just solidified how much I needed them to find their way.

I loved getting to go along with them over the course of their journey in this book and getting to see them pour their hearts out to one another. It was a heart touching and emotional story that consumed me with them, connected me with them and just let me live every breath of the story with them and the most amazing way. This author allows you to feel it all with these characters over the course of this book, showing you that the possibilities of more and taking a chance can truly change your life in the best way.

Tyler and Lily have the best kind of love story in this book. Getting to watch these two experience that glorious more together is absolutely everything. And this author delivers their story in a way that will have you beyond invested, beyond ready for everything they’re about to give you, and beyond ready to get that much deserved happily ever after for the two of them. This book delivered it all in spades and it is a must read.

Tiger Lilies and Tight Ends is the perfect romance read, and it is one that will steal your heart the moment you start it. I promise you that. So the second you finish this review, run yourself to this book. Because Tyler and Lily are ready to give you their all, and you will be truly blown away by what you get with them in their story.

I pinky promise you that.

Meet Kathryn Andrews:

Kathryn Andrews is a #1 Inspirational Romance Bestselling Author who loves stories that end with a happily ever after. She started writing at age seven and never stopped. Kathryn is known for Chasing Clouds, the Starving for Southern series, and her much loved Hale Brothers series. Her stories are sweet, southern, and fall into the genres of chi-lit, contemporary romance, sports romance, and southern fiction.

Kathryn graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She spends her days as a sales director for a medical device company and her nights lost in her love of fictional characters.

When Kathryn is not crafting beautiful worlds that incorporate some of her most favorite real life places, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two young sons, while drinking iced coffee and enjoying the sun.

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Wildflower and Wide Receivers is a second-chance, contemporary sports romance about our hero who unexpectedly becomes a single guardian over his five-year-old niece and the one who got away.

When fate throws a second chance . . . catch it.
Jonah Dallmann
Over two years ago, I met a woman on New Year’s Eve, and it was the best night of my life. That
is until the next morning when it became the worst.
One voice message. One swerve over a double yellow line. One little girl, my niece, that’s now mine.
It hasn’t been easy, these things never are, but we’re trying. Now, I’m twenty-six, and determined to be
the best wide receiver on our team, while she’s seven and spends her days reading books and dancing
ballet.
Only, I haven’t just grieved the loss of my brother, but her too. My heart has ached for what could have
been, and what I had to let go. I know what I did to her was wrong, unfortunately, I never had an
opportunity to explain that at the time I thought I was right. But as the door opens and she steps in
wearing green scrubs and a long white coat, shock ripples through me and hope that I might finally get
the chance.
Sophie Black
I always wondered if this day would come, but I never expected to see him here, with her, in one of my
patient rooms. He’s even better looking than I remember and giving off single dad vibes, too, as he
cares for his adorable niece. A niece I didn’t know he had.

I was surprised when he asked if he could see me again, but I instantly declined. Fool me once, shame
on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Only now we keep running into each other, and I’m confused. Is
fate throwing us a second chance, and if so, should I catch it?

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*****5 Utterly Incredible Stars*****

It is absolutely no secret that Kathryn Andrews is one of my favorite authors of all time. I have been reading her books for over a decade now, and she has consistently delivered phenomenal romances that have stolen my heart, that have given me unforgettable and dynamic characters, and that have brought to life the most consuming love stories I’ve had the pleasure of reading. She is one of my favorite authors for a reason and every time I start to read one of her books I just fall in love with her writing and what she creates with her character so authentically. When I sit down to read a book by her, I know I’m going to feel and live and experience every breath of what she creates and that is honestly just part of what I love about her books so much.

From the very first page of Wildflowers and Wide Receivers, I was addicted. I was hooked. I was consumed. I was in it with all that I had with these characters. Jonah and Sophie stole my heart. From that very first moment, from that very first night of the two of them, I was in it with them. I was invested. I was ready to get everything with them. I was here for it all. That just shows you what this author creates from the very start that you feel that in your heart and soul from that very first page. There is just truly something right about them. Those two are soulmates. They are the definition of right person wrong time. They are two people who have an incredible night, who lose touch for the most heartbreaking reason, and who find themselves back together again with a second chance at it all.

And that second chance? It’s absolutely beautiful.

It’s authentically and so breathtakingly real and emotional. It’s romantic and spicy and utterly unforgettable. It’s special and sweet and just so so good. It’s them. It’s them in the BEST way, and I truly can’t say enough, how much I lived for every breath of their second chance together.

This book is all about what happens when the most unexpected things happen in your life. It’s about how you pick yourself up when everything feels lost and broken. It is a story about accepting what feels right and fighting for what you want and need with your whole heart. It is a story of discovery that letting go of what you thought would be will sometimes bring you to the place you were always meant to be.

This is a story full of heart, full of longing and connection, full of joy and heartache and second chances. It is a story of two people who have a deeply felt connection finding their way back to one another at the exact right time they’re meant to do it. It is a story of the beginning of a family, the beginning of a possibility, the beginning of more. It is a story that will truly touch every part of your heart, and that will have you believing in the magic of love and second chances.

Simply put, Wildflowers and Wide Receivers is an emotionally unforgettable and deeply romantic story of 2 people finding their way back to each other at the exact right time when their hearts are ready to see what could be.

Now I have to say that Jonah and Sophie stole my heart from the very start of this book. I’ve said that already and I could say it a million times over and it still wouldn’t be enough. Because when I tell you, I was so wholeheartedly invested in them, pulled into everything with them, and rooting for the two of them with all that I had, I mean that so much. I loved these two. I loved who they were as people. I loved what this book showed with them. I loved getting all of the pieces of them and who they were and who they wanted to be and everything in between. I love that. I just felt like they were so real and I just got them. This author allows you to get them and understand them in every way and it’s just very special. It allows you to feel like you’re living this book with them and that just enhances everything you get with them.

Those two are truly soulmates. They are two halves of the the same whole who were always meant to find their way back to each other. They definitely have hurdles to overcome and many a conversation to be had, but what I loved about the two of them is they were always willing to put in the work. They were always willing to show up. They were always willing to be grown ups and figure it out because they knew that there was something very special about the other. They knew that there was something very real happening between them. And even when it scared them out of their minds, even when it felt like things were stacked against them, and even when they weren’t sure what would come next, they always showed up, they were always honest, and they always felt what they did with their whole heart in the most real way.

I just loved how real everything about them and with them felt, and I really can’t say it enough. Jonah and Sophie are truly something special. I loved getting to know them and love them and experience every high and low with them. It truly felt like I was right there with Kathryn. Andrews brought it to life, and my heart cannot be more in love with what they delivered. Their story is romantic and fiery and won’t and full of life and personality, and so much heart, and I was swept up into it all in the most amazing way. I truly never wanted to leave those two because everything I got with them was incredibly beautiful, so beyond emotional and sweet and romantic, and just everything my heart needed.

I also have to say that opening up into a new series and world of characters, while also getting to revisit some very special characters from the past from this author was a delight. I am not a sports person, but I do love me a good sports romance, and this is one of the best I have read. It incorporates all the football fun, all the teammate banter and humor, and it just opens up into a world and team that I want every moment with. The guys on the team felt like my new best friends, and I am ready for every single one of them to get a book. I also loved that this story had so many connections to past characters that I fallen in love with because of this author and her words. It just felt like one big family coming together and it was everything.

I can’t say that enough.

I truly have no doubt that this series will be one of my all-time favorites. This book has already firmly cemented itself as one of my top reads of the year, and I am already chomping at the bit for more. I loved how fun this story was. I loved that there was such heart and emotion and connection to everything these characters shared. I loved that this author once again completely stole my heart with a story and a world of characters from the very first word of her book. I loved that I believed in these characters, everything they shared, and every possibility of what could be. I loved that I felt so in this story that I laughed and cried and melted and wounded and just loved every morsel and moment I got with every character in this world. it was truly unforgettable and all feeling and every other incredible thing under the sun.

It was truly the best, and the reading experience and absolute joy I got with these characters throughout this book and love story is something I will never forget.

Wildflowers and Wide Receivers is Kathryn Andrews at her best. It is an impeccably written and crafted love story that will steal your heart, that will bring you into a world you will never want to leave, and that will show you how meant to be Jonah and Sophie are. Years ago they shared a memorable night and this is their second chance at all. That second chance is woven together and the most beautiful and incredible and just absolutely, fantastic way that will have you believing in everything with the two of them. They are just so so special, and so so right for each other, and getting to see them finally find that right time together and put their hearts on the line was absolute perfection.

Just like the rest of this book.

If there is one book you read this year, it should be this one. Jonah and Sophie leave it all on the pages of this book and show you their hearts in th most authentic and beautiful way, and you will love it. You will love them. You will love the possibilities of what they create and the love that blooms and second chances. You will love every bit of spark and sweetness and swoon. You will just love them and this team and this world and a little girl who brings them back together at the exact right time. This story culminates a romance that truly feels written in the stars, and you will love every second of what you get with these two as they find their way back to one another.

Trust me.

Jonah and Sophie and Vivi are the real deal, and you will love and cherish every bit of this story with them and every other character who is ready to steal your heart in this book. I promise you that! Because I know I did. I loved this book with my whole heart, and I honestly just wish I could go back and read it again for the first time because the magic and love and spark and beauty of what you get to experience so naturally and authentically with these characters is truly everything in the best way.

Kathryn Andrews has once again delivered an incredible romance in this book that will steal your heart in every way. Her words create something that is so very special and utterly incredible because she lays it all on the line and infuses that into what she gives you with her characters. She puts so much heart into the story and gives you everything and then some. She just makes it all between Sophie & Jonah feel so real, so true, and just so them in the most dynamic and genuine way possible.

There is so much more I could tell you about why you need to read this book, but honestly, you just need to go read it. You need to read it and experience it and just fall hopelessly in love with these characters and how special they are. From the moment you meet them, you will feel that and know that and just love them. I promise. And in the end, you will just be blown away by what you get with their love story because it is truly the best and the epitome of what a love story should be.

I truly can’t say that enough.

Meet Kathryn Andrews:
Kathryn Andrews is a #1 Inspirational Romance Bestselling Author who loves stories that end with a happily ever after. She started writing at age seven and never stopped. Kathryn is known for Chasing Clouds, the Starving for Southern series, and her much loved Hale Brothers series. Her stories are sweet, southern, and fall into the genres of chi-lit, contemporary romance, sports romance, and southern fiction.
Kathryn graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She spends her days as a sales director for a medical device company and her nights lost in her love of fictional characters.
When Kathryn is not crafting beautiful worlds that incorporate some of her most favorite real life
places, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two young sons, while drinking iced coffee and enjoying the sun.
Connect with Kathryn Andrews:
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