The Player Next Door

From the international bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Ten Tiny Breaths, The Player Next Door is a second-chance, hate-to-love romance set in Polson Falls. Scarlet Reed has spent twelve years trying to outrun her reputation as the town harlot's daughter — and she's finally succeeding, with a teaching job and a fixer-upper house to call her own. Then she learns her new next-door neighbor is Shane Beckett: the charismatic former quarterback who broke her heart, the lying, cheating player she thought was long gone living the pro-football dream. Now a single father and firefighter, Shane won't stop showing up — apologizing, rushing to her aid, making her heart pound — and Scarlet starts to fear that maybe he's changed, and that she's the one about to play herself out of real happiness.