Rebecca Tinselman has played by the rules her entire life.
As a teaching assistant at Rivergate College, she’s worked tirelessly to build her future in academia—grading endless papers, juggling tight deadlines, and traveling for conferences while pursuing her master’s degree. To protect her reputation, she’s locked her private life away, determined that nothing will jeopardize the career she’s fought so hard to build.
Then Paul Powell walks into her classroom.
On the surface, he’s the kind of student whispered about in faculty lounges—Rivergate’s rising football star, seemingly driven by talent, popularity, and a university culture that lives for Saturday night football games.
But Rebecca soon learns that there is far more beneath the jersey than meets the eye. Paul is brilliant, insightful, and disarmingly intense. When Paul asks for private tutoring, Rebecca tells herself it’s harmless…
Until their late-night study session ignites something neither of them can control.
Paul is chasing a dream, and Rebecca can’t help but feel she has been woven into it. Caught between desire and duty, she must protect her future by walking away—or risk everything for the one man who could change her life in ways she never expected.
3/5⭐️… no estuvo mal, pero creo que hubiera estado muchísimo mejor si le daban más desarrollo a la historia, más conflictos y más drama… sentí que todo fue demasiado rápido 🫤
It was an ok book I guess. It did not suck me in at all. If it hadn't been a short story I probably would not have finished it. The main female character is too obsessive and just over thinks everything. There is no really story of their relationship building up. In the entire book they have only a couple interactions and one real scene of being together and then a happily ever after. I would have liked to see more development in their relationship. Found it to only be an ok story.
New to me author with an overly fast-paced storyline that showed great potential but fell short of the goal line. Both main characters were under-developed without much back story that explained their personalities or their paths to the present. It's a quick and disappointing build -- but does end leaving readers with a complete and very satisfying happy-ever-after -- and the reason that I gifted the extra star.
Antes de iniciar el libro pensé que sería más de lo mismo pero me equivoque, la historia de Paul y Rebeca inicia con un amor prohibido y la búsqueda de esa realización como persona, de salir de los esquemas, perseguir los sueños. En mi opinión faltó más desarrollo y la intervención de personajes secundarios relevantes.
"Don't judge a book by its cover" definitely rings true for this. The cover is pretty but the story felt like something the author threw together over a weekend. Honestly, I wondered if AI wrote it with how choppy the dialogue was and how abruptly story line changed. Weird.