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Make You Mine
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Expected 17 Mar 26Make You Mine is PERFECT for fans of "Boys of Tommen Series", "the Addicted Series" and the "Off-Campus Series". It is the first book in a series of interconnected standalone novels that follow a group of college students through the ups and downs of life, love and pursuing their passions.
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Summer has always been my chance to escape my hometown of Allister, Virginia. To forget about my obligations and just be free. At my mother’s childhood home on Lake Michigan, I get to just be Allie Hennings, the free-spirited, wise-cracking, part-time party girl. I’m not the coach’s perfect daughter here. I’m not the girl who always lives next to his players to “spy” on them for him. I’m just Allie.
So when my dad decides to take in a stray, one that I particularly can’t stand, summer has been ruined. Or has it?
Listen, I didn’t want to spend my summer vacation with my coach and his family, but it’s better than living with my roommate and his family or in the dorms. After my Mom decided to upend her entire life and move to Paris for a man, I’ve been left behind with no more than what is in my dorm room. But hey, I get to spend a summer on the beach, basking in the warmth, swimming in the lake. Sounds serene, right? Wrong. Because Allie will be there. Allie, as in the girl I’ve had intense feelings for since the moment I laid eyes on her at the meet the team event freshman year.
Summer is about to get complicated, isn’t it?
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Make You Mine is a coach’s daughter/star player romance, with a lot of bickering, swoon-worthy moments, and enough drama to keep readers hooked until the very last page.
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Summer has always been my chance to escape my hometown of Allister, Virginia. To forget about my obligations and just be free. At my mother’s childhood home on Lake Michigan, I get to just be Allie Hennings, the free-spirited, wise-cracking, part-time party girl. I’m not the coach’s perfect daughter here. I’m not the girl who always lives next to his players to “spy” on them for him. I’m just Allie.
So when my dad decides to take in a stray, one that I particularly can’t stand, summer has been ruined. Or has it?
Listen, I didn’t want to spend my summer vacation with my coach and his family, but it’s better than living with my roommate and his family or in the dorms. After my Mom decided to upend her entire life and move to Paris for a man, I’ve been left behind with no more than what is in my dorm room. But hey, I get to spend a summer on the beach, basking in the warmth, swimming in the lake. Sounds serene, right? Wrong. Because Allie will be there. Allie, as in the girl I’ve had intense feelings for since the moment I laid eyes on her at the meet the team event freshman year.
Summer is about to get complicated, isn’t it?
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Make You Mine is a coach’s daughter/star player romance, with a lot of bickering, swoon-worthy moments, and enough drama to keep readers hooked until the very last page.
323 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication March 17, 2026
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February 5, 2026
Ahhhhh!!!
I absolutely ADORED Allie and Teddy! I felt so connected to them and wanted to protect them to entire time. My heart hurts for them and I wish I could hug them 😭
I quite literally ate this book up! Before work, during lunch, and on the treadmill!
Such a great summer read if you wanna be in your feels !
Thank you to Kyle for providing me with an early copy 🥹 I cannot wait for the next book!!! 🤭
I absolutely ADORED Allie and Teddy! I felt so connected to them and wanted to protect them to entire time. My heart hurts for them and I wish I could hug them 😭
I quite literally ate this book up! Before work, during lunch, and on the treadmill!
Such a great summer read if you wanna be in your feels !
Thank you to Kyle for providing me with an early copy 🥹 I cannot wait for the next book!!! 🤭
February 13, 2026
firstly, i just want to say a big thank you to kyle for gracing me with an arc. i love you so much and the amount of love and passion you put into this!!
where do i begin? enemies/frenemies to lovers is always a trope i eat up like it’s my favourite meal, and this book has quite literally become one of my favourites (with the uttermost unbiased opinion ever). allie and teddy. teddy and allie. oh how they made me giggle, gasp and stare at the same four walls in my bedroom over and over again. the way they navigate past their ‘disliking’ of each other and instead turn their relationship into one of trust and finding solace in overcoming past experiences is so admirable. i honestly can’t put it into words.
whilst reading this it made me wish allister was some place i could go to because every friendship and romance within the book as a whole felt so powerful and i just need a summer getaway!!
hands down, this is one of my favourites arcs i have ever read. and if you’ve not already, go and preorder!! you will be swooning and crying and everything in between. once again, thank you kyle for not only being an amazing friend but a creator of an amazing world!!
where do i begin? enemies/frenemies to lovers is always a trope i eat up like it’s my favourite meal, and this book has quite literally become one of my favourites (with the uttermost unbiased opinion ever). allie and teddy. teddy and allie. oh how they made me giggle, gasp and stare at the same four walls in my bedroom over and over again. the way they navigate past their ‘disliking’ of each other and instead turn their relationship into one of trust and finding solace in overcoming past experiences is so admirable. i honestly can’t put it into words.
whilst reading this it made me wish allister was some place i could go to because every friendship and romance within the book as a whole felt so powerful and i just need a summer getaway!!
hands down, this is one of my favourites arcs i have ever read. and if you’ve not already, go and preorder!! you will be swooning and crying and everything in between. once again, thank you kyle for not only being an amazing friend but a creator of an amazing world!!
Review of advance copy received from Author
5 stars. Thanks so much KC for my very first ARC!! It feels even more special that it came from a friend.
Make You Mine is a perfect summer romance and with how cold this winter’s been, I recommend reading it as soon as it comes out in March to get summer started early.
If you like found family, characters who have a deep emotional romantic bond as well as they both individually have trauma but heal and grow from it together - this book will be perfect for you.
It’s a great balance between a fun and lighthearted summer read between two characters who banter a lot and go from dislike to love as well as lot of obstacles and difficulties that Allie and Teddy rely on each other to get through.
The pacing is perfect and you won’t want to put this book down because the characters feel so real and jump off the page and you are so invested in their story and their love for each other.
The side characters in the story are so likable and it’s easy to tell the love these friends have for each other.
Everyone should pre order Make You Mine because you want to be an early fan of KC Matthews on the start of what I’m very confident will be a successful journey as a writer!!
I can’t wait to post my full review after release day and I’m so excited for book 2: Told You Things!! 🩵💛
Make You Mine is a perfect summer romance and with how cold this winter’s been, I recommend reading it as soon as it comes out in March to get summer started early.
If you like found family, characters who have a deep emotional romantic bond as well as they both individually have trauma but heal and grow from it together - this book will be perfect for you.
It’s a great balance between a fun and lighthearted summer read between two characters who banter a lot and go from dislike to love as well as lot of obstacles and difficulties that Allie and Teddy rely on each other to get through.
The pacing is perfect and you won’t want to put this book down because the characters feel so real and jump off the page and you are so invested in their story and their love for each other.
The side characters in the story are so likable and it’s easy to tell the love these friends have for each other.
Everyone should pre order Make You Mine because you want to be an early fan of KC Matthews on the start of what I’m very confident will be a successful journey as a writer!!
I can’t wait to post my full review after release day and I’m so excited for book 2: Told You Things!! 🩵💛
Review of advance copy received from Author
This was an ARC I received from the author and my first time reading anything from them. I loved the summer vibe, fremenies to lovers, coaches daughter and he falls first tropes.
Allie and her parents spend their summers in her mom’s hometown on Lake Michigan in order to escape life in Allister Virginia where she goes to college and her dad is the hockey coach. It’s her favorite time of the year because she gets to just be Allie. She’s not the coach’s daughter who lives next door to her dad’s players.
Teddy is the incredibly HOT hockey player living across the hall from his coaches daughter. He fell for her the moment he saw her at a meet the team night his freshman year. As everyone else is packing up to move out of the dorms for the summer he’s trying to find a place to stay. His mom has decided to move to Paris to be with her latest boyfriend. When Coach Hennings can’t find housing for him, Teddy goes to stay with his family.
When Teddy shows up at the house Allie is NOT happy. The last thing she wants is to spend her summer with the one person she can’t stand. What she hoped would be a summer of fun turns into a summer where Allie sees Teddy as someone she never knew and things she never expected to deal with.
Allie and her parents spend their summers in her mom’s hometown on Lake Michigan in order to escape life in Allister Virginia where she goes to college and her dad is the hockey coach. It’s her favorite time of the year because she gets to just be Allie. She’s not the coach’s daughter who lives next door to her dad’s players.
Teddy is the incredibly HOT hockey player living across the hall from his coaches daughter. He fell for her the moment he saw her at a meet the team night his freshman year. As everyone else is packing up to move out of the dorms for the summer he’s trying to find a place to stay. His mom has decided to move to Paris to be with her latest boyfriend. When Coach Hennings can’t find housing for him, Teddy goes to stay with his family.
When Teddy shows up at the house Allie is NOT happy. The last thing she wants is to spend her summer with the one person she can’t stand. What she hoped would be a summer of fun turns into a summer where Allie sees Teddy as someone she never knew and things she never expected to deal with.
Review of advance copy received from Author
ARC Review : 📚🌳🎢🌊🏒🏫📝 The book revolves around Allie and Teddy, who are two college students who start off as frenemies who then have to see each other often because Teddy is staying at Allie and her family place for the summer because he doesn’t have a place to go. And because of that proximity, they got to spend more time together, where they got to know each other and discover sides of one another they never imagined existed, and because of that, their feelings changed from playful Enemies to a very passionate love. That later on becomes a source of strength as they navigate through their emotional scars from their past. And that's why their love is powerful and beautiful.
February 17, 2026
ARC REVIEW 🍦🌊🎢🏒
I loved this book with my whole heart seriously. Teddy Novak and Allison Hennings are going to stick with me for the rest of my life.
KC really knows how to write such complex characters and I related to both Allie and Teddy in so many ways. So I want to thank KC Matthew’s for giving me the opportunity to read this book early. AND I WILL BE PICKING UP THE REST OF THIS SERIES.
If you love
🌊 Playful Banter
🌊 Coach’s daughter x star player
🌊 Summer romance
🌊 Anxiety rep
🌊 He falls first and HARD
🌊 Frenemies to Lovers
THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
I am begging you all to PLEASE pick up this book when it comes out on March 17, 2026
February 8, 2026
Oh my i'm so love with this little universe already!!
This was such a smooth and easy read hands down everyone needs to add it to the summer tbr!!
Allie and Teddy are the sweetest characters ever who deserve the entire world had me never wanting to put the book down no matter what I was doing!
I can't wait to see where else allister takes us! Love this little group of friends.
thank you kyle for an early copy and i'm so proud of you!! 🤍🥹
This was such a smooth and easy read hands down everyone needs to add it to the summer tbr!!
Allie and Teddy are the sweetest characters ever who deserve the entire world had me never wanting to put the book down no matter what I was doing!
I can't wait to see where else allister takes us! Love this little group of friends.
thank you kyle for an early copy and i'm so proud of you!! 🤍🥹
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
✨ARC REVIEW✨
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🌶️🌶️/5
Make You Mine by K.C. was absolutely amazing! 💖 This book took me on a full roller coaster of emotions — from pure giddiness 🤭 to actual tears 😭.
If you love a he‑falls‑first 🫠, frenemies‑to‑lovers ✨, small‑town summer romance 🌻 with a dash of trauma bonding 💔, sharp banter 🔥, and of course the iconic coach’s daughter × star player dynamic 🏒… this one is so for you.
I devoured it and I’m still thinking about these characters 💭📚
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🌶️🌶️/5
Make You Mine by K.C. was absolutely amazing! 💖 This book took me on a full roller coaster of emotions — from pure giddiness 🤭 to actual tears 😭.
If you love a he‑falls‑first 🫠, frenemies‑to‑lovers ✨, small‑town summer romance 🌻 with a dash of trauma bonding 💔, sharp banter 🔥, and of course the iconic coach’s daughter × star player dynamic 🏒… this one is so for you.
I devoured it and I’m still thinking about these characters 💭📚
February 14, 2026
ARC REVIEW
4⭐️
This was my first ever ARC so I immensely thank the author for giving me this opportunity. I loved this book and I loved the summer vibes so much, it’s the perfect book to read in between the months June and July. I loved the characters, their personalities and I’m so excited for the second book of this series.
4⭐️
This was my first ever ARC so I immensely thank the author for giving me this opportunity. I loved this book and I loved the summer vibes so much, it’s the perfect book to read in between the months June and July. I loved the characters, their personalities and I’m so excited for the second book of this series.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Thank you for the ARC! I really enjoyed this book.
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