Three childhood friends. One last spring break. What could go wrong?
Layla Sharpe’s life is going exactly according to plan. She’s just been offered her dream job as a cryptographer, and she’s supposed to spend spring break celebrating with her best friends. But then her car breaks down in Georgia, and she meets sexy pool shark Phin. While playing a game with Phin, her wallet is stolen and just as things look like they can’t get worse, Phin offers her a place to stay and one-on-one pool-playing lessons.
Phin Marks can’t seem to resist the math geek with a smart mouth, so he bends his own no-strings rules and offers to help Layla. When her anxiety over adulthood rears its ugly head, Layla is drawn to Phin’s free-wheeling lifestyle—no strings, no roots. Work a simple job during the day and hustle pool at night. Phin, however, has spent years working toward the life Layla has. He’s desperate to settle down, grow some roots, and walk away from his nomadic life.
Can he convince Layla to gamble on forever with him?
Originally published in 2014.
Review by Twinsie Angie
I purchased this book.
I was looking for some quick reads and the author told me about this one. I loved the fact the girl was nerdy and wore fun Star Wars shirts that people didn’t understand. This is my husband 100%.
I love a good novella because we know there will be a HEA and most are pretty much “Boy and girl meet, have some laughs, and then fall in love.” This book started pretty traditional and then switched a bit. The characters meet and fall but then split and look out because a woman scorned is never a good thing. LOL
Layla and Phin meet and have some attraction. They both are not facing all the things in their lives and are kind of hiding while having fun with the other. When things get a little too deep, Phin pushed Layla away in the most douche of ways…hence why she becomes a woman scorned.
Layla is not one to back down from a challenge and does all she can to prove that the things Phin said about her were not true. So, when they see each other a few months later, she is hell bent on making him pay for breaking her heart.
I liked the story but would have liked to know more about Phin’s back story. Because it was kinda wild what we did learn.
Shannyn is a part-time English teacher, part-time editor, and full-time mom (even though her kids are about grown).
She writes contemporary romances (almost all set in the city of Chicago) about family, friends, and love. Whether it’s a sprawling Irish American family with a ton of siblings or a group of friends who are found family, how everyone functions (or not) is often a core of her stories.
Shannyn is represented by Frances Black of Literary Counsel. Check out the O’Learys series, the For Your Love series, Daring Divorcees or Hot & Nerdy. Shannyn also writes heist romances under the name Sloane Steele https://www.amazon.com/Sloane-Steele/e/B08NFLHV9M
