A Different Game

by Charlie M. Matthews

You know that One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I found out that it was true. At least, that's what I'd thought a year earlier when a few stolen moments with this one, unexpected girl, turned my heart to mush.
I thought she was different.
I thought she was special.
But it turned out I was wrong.
I was the kind of guy who learned from his mistakes quickly, so I moved away, threw myself into my budding football career, and I was determined to make something of myself and focus on my future.
And it worked, despite me missing her.
For a short while, I had everything figured out again.
Then, in one split second, it was all gone, ripped out from beneath my feet.
An injury forced me back home to Winslow to face the world I'd left behind.
But I wasn't the same man when I returned.
I was different now. Too different for everything to go back to the way it was before. –Jake


I wasn't the relationship type. I was the girl who mothers warned their sons about. I was the local piece of trash.
At least, that's what they all thought.
None of them ever really knew me at all. None of them except him.
And then he left me... alone and confused. He forced me to hate him, to hate them all. I wanted to drift away. Leave Winslow far behind me and start afresh someplace else. Someplace new. Somewhere I could become anything and anyone I wanted to be.
But then he came back, dragging with him every moment, every explicit memory I had of us together and dumping them unceremoniously at my feet.
I wanted to keep hating him.
I wanted to resist.
But he was different now.
He'd changed, and all my plans for a happy ever after were shattered the moment he made the decision to return and show me exactly what I'd been missing while he'd been gone.
I was screwed.

416 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2018

About the author

Charlie M. Matthews is a hopeless romantic, lost in her own world of fairy tales and adventures. Mum to three beautiful children, Charlie lives in a small village on the outskirts of Oxfordshire, England. Between school runs and generally doing the whole 'mum' thing, you'll most likely find her relaxing on the sofa in her jammies with a glass of wine and her trusty kindle in her hands. A lover of art and painting, she'd happily trade in her everyday clothes in exchange for a paint smudged shirt, but fate stepped in and took her creativity down a path she never expected. The first time she put pen to paper, a writer was born, and Charlie has never looked back since.

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book 2 in The Wrong Game world this time giving us the story of Melanie and Jake who we met in book 1.
Things haven't been easy for them both .. they both had problems both separate and together so it's a shock when they bump into each other again after time apart. .. and then this gives us a story of drama.. problems.. emotions.. lies and happiness galore.
I really enjoyed this story and was hugely invested these guys.. I didnt really want it to end.
Fab read.. fab writing.. fab characters.

[Laura Barnard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book. After reading the first book I didn't think I was going to like Mel at all, but the writing managed to make me empathize with her. Loved Jake - he is so swoon-worthy. Can't wait for the third book.

[Shelley Jennings-Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book. I wasn't sure I would like Mel but I was wrong. Jake was just gorgeous.