Jakeās my best friend and first love. Thereās just one problemāhe belongs to my sister.
Iāve been crushing on Jake for years, but never had the guts to tell him. One drunken night with my sister and two pink lines later, and heās lost to me forever.
She doesnāt care that I met Jake Ramirez first. That he and I were best friends first. That I fell in love with him first. Because what my sister wants, my sister gets.
When she video-calls me and Jake accidentally walks by in the buff, something in me snaps.
Transferring to a different college might seem like a copout, but I have to get away from Jake and my sister before I say or do something Iāll regret. In an act of desperation, I ghost my old life.
For the next two years, everything is greatāuntil I come face-to-face with Jake and his son, who my sister abandoned.
Jakeās the new wide receiver at my school, and he wants nothing to do with me, which is fine because I plan to keep my distance. Except weāre thrown together in the most dire circumstances that bring back all those old feelings.
They say everyone deserves a second chance, but my heart canāt handle breaking one more time.
Second Down Darling is an angsty, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance, featuring a sexy single dad whoās a down-and-out college football player and a nerdy girl determined to overcome her wallflower ways. It has major second chance vibes and lots of steam! Second Down Darling is a dual POV standalone in the USA Today-bestselling series Varsity Dads.
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Charlotte has loved her best friend Jake since she was a teenager and couldnāt imagine a future without him however that changed when he and her sister were intimate. If that wasnāt difficult enough they are now expecting a baby and as much as she wanted to support them it was too painful to be in his life and not together. She created a separate life from them however that is about to come crashing down when Jake transfers to her college and is a single father to his son Asher.
When Jake found out that he was going to be a father he wanted to be the best father he could be and that included being there for Charlotteās sister. When that didnāt work he found himself trying to balance school, football and being a single father. When circumstances unfold that have them both attending the same college they might just end up with whom they always belonged.
You canāt help but feel for Charlotte both when it comes to the way she is treated and the resulting insecurities. Although Jake made some mistakes along the way he always had the best of intentions and I enjoyed seeing them overcome all their challenges and finally find their way to each other.
AUTHOR BIO
Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of The Varsity Dad Dilemma, the Texas Nights series, and the Dearest series, books she hopes readers love but her parents avoid. A former high school English teacher and freelance journalist, she resides in Texas with her husband, twin daughters, and a bunny named Dandelion.
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