Tropes: Friends to Enemies to Lovers/Football Romance
Release Date: January 23, 2024
BLURB
From L.J. Shen, the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Reckless, comes a brand new book in the All Saints series.
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her?
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn’t. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey’s picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She’s becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.
The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach.
But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind.
The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?
Bailey has a special relationship with Lev and while they were growing up they were always there for each other. Everything that Bailey has attempted at she has succeeded whether it was school or ballet until Juilliard. When it doesn’t turn out the way she expected she turns to self destructive ways to deal with her disappointment, and she now finds herself back home trying to deal with the aftermath.
Lev too has always succeeded at everything whether it was school or football, but his biggest conflict is the life that was chosen for him may not be the one he wants. He and Bailey have always been an important part of each other’s lives however when she returns the one thing he does know if that Bailey is his future and he is determined to help her overcome the turn her life has taken.
While they were apart both Bailey and Lev found themself struggling and they find themselves trying to deal with the aftermath of their time apart. Although their journey was difficult and filled with angst the love between them was undeniable as they proved that they are much stronger together than apart.
L.J. Shen is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary, new adult, and young adult romance. Her books have been sold in twenty different countries, and she hopes to visit all of them.
She lives in Florida with her husband, three rowdy sons, and rowdier pets and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows, and reading to her heart’s content.
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