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Blue Devils #1
Playing the Field
A fake relationship.
A secret identity.
What could go wrong?
I have a problem—a thousand dollar problem. As a sociology student working on my senior thesis, I’m on track to graduate with highest honors. But unless I pay the tuition owed to the university, it’s bye bye summa cum laude, hello crushing debt.
Enter star soccer player Mitchell Burns. The first time we met, I was Hot Rebecca. The second time, I was Not Rebecca. Aka, the persona I don to collect research for my thesis. Kitten sweaters. Wool skirts. The whole shebang. Needless to say, he didn’t recognize me.
It turns out Mitchell’s looking for a fake girlfriend, and he’s willing to pay. Fake relationship for a cool grand? It’s a win-win for both. The only problem is, the person he’s dating—Not Rebecca—isn’t real.
He has no idea he’s a subject in my research project.
He doesn’t know the girl he’s falling for is a lie.
I need to decide what’s more important: my degree, or my heart. Otherwise, I might lose both.
A secret identity.
What could go wrong?
I have a problem—a thousand dollar problem. As a sociology student working on my senior thesis, I’m on track to graduate with highest honors. But unless I pay the tuition owed to the university, it’s bye bye summa cum laude, hello crushing debt.
Enter star soccer player Mitchell Burns. The first time we met, I was Hot Rebecca. The second time, I was Not Rebecca. Aka, the persona I don to collect research for my thesis. Kitten sweaters. Wool skirts. The whole shebang. Needless to say, he didn’t recognize me.
It turns out Mitchell’s looking for a fake girlfriend, and he’s willing to pay. Fake relationship for a cool grand? It’s a win-win for both. The only problem is, the person he’s dating—Not Rebecca—isn’t real.
He has no idea he’s a subject in my research project.
He doesn’t know the girl he’s falling for is a lie.
I need to decide what’s more important: my degree, or my heart. Otherwise, I might lose both.
252 pages, ebook
First published November 6, 2018
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February 12, 2019
If I could give this 10 stars, I would.
I can't say enough how much I loved this story!
First of all, you WILL dump your current book boyfriend for Mitchell. He is smart, caring, funny, and adorable in an alpha-male-captain-of-the-soccer-team kind of way.
Then there's Rebecca. I was intrigued by the circumstances under which she met Mitchell, and I was GLUED to the book to see how it would play out. I was only aggravated with her for, like, a fraction of a chapter because of her "secret identity," but after that, I was totally in her corner.
This was one of those books where the love was so well-written. I even cried at one point. Me, the jaded book blogger, was totally in tears. Did I mention how much I loved this book?!
This, in my opinion, was THE PERFECT new-adult-sports-romance. Heck, it's an amazing anything-romance! Though it was a Happy For Now ending, I'm hoping I get to catch up with these two in subsequent books.
I would ABSOLUTELY read more books my Mackenzie!!!
I can't say enough how much I loved this story!
First of all, you WILL dump your current book boyfriend for Mitchell. He is smart, caring, funny, and adorable in an alpha-male-captain-of-the-soccer-team kind of way.
Then there's Rebecca. I was intrigued by the circumstances under which she met Mitchell, and I was GLUED to the book to see how it would play out. I was only aggravated with her for, like, a fraction of a chapter because of her "secret identity," but after that, I was totally in her corner.
This was one of those books where the love was so well-written. I even cried at one point. Me, the jaded book blogger, was totally in tears. Did I mention how much I loved this book?!
This, in my opinion, was THE PERFECT new-adult-sports-romance. Heck, it's an amazing anything-romance! Though it was a Happy For Now ending, I'm hoping I get to catch up with these two in subsequent books.
I would ABSOLUTELY read more books my Mackenzie!!!
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Blurb:
A fake relationship.
A secret identity.
What could go wrong?
I have a problem—a thousand dollar problem. As a sociology student working on my senior thesis, I’m on track to graduate with highest honors. But unless I pay the tuition owed to the university, it’s bye bye summa cum laude, hello crushing debt.
Enter star soccer player Mitchell Burns. The first time we met, I was Hot Rebecca. The second time, I was Not Rebecca. Aka, the persona I don to collect research for my thesis. Kitten sweaters. Wool skirts. The whole shebang. Needless to say, he didn’t recognize me.
It turns out Mitchell’s looking for a fake girlfriend, and he’s willing to pay. Fake relationship for a cool grand? It’s a win-win for both. The only problem is, the person he’s dating—Not Rebecca—isn’t real.
He has no idea he’s a subject in my research project.
He doesn’t know the girl he’s falling for is a lie.
I need to decide what’s more important: my degree, or my heart. Otherwise, I might lose both.
Blurb:
A fake relationship.
A secret identity.
What could go wrong?
I have a problem—a thousand dollar problem. As a sociology student working on my senior thesis, I’m on track to graduate with highest honors. But unless I pay the tuition owed to the university, it’s bye bye summa cum laude, hello crushing debt.
Enter star soccer player Mitchell Burns. The first time we met, I was Hot Rebecca. The second time, I was Not Rebecca. Aka, the persona I don to collect research for my thesis. Kitten sweaters. Wool skirts. The whole shebang. Needless to say, he didn’t recognize me.
It turns out Mitchell’s looking for a fake girlfriend, and he’s willing to pay. Fake relationship for a cool grand? It’s a win-win for both. The only problem is, the person he’s dating—Not Rebecca—isn’t real.
He has no idea he’s a subject in my research project.
He doesn’t know the girl he’s falling for is a lie.
I need to decide what’s more important: my degree, or my heart. Otherwise, I might lose both.
March 29, 2019
Maybe closer to 3-1/2 stars. I liked it -- I liked Mitchell with Rebecca. I liked that, while Rebecca needed money, she never thought about the fact that Mitchell's family had money. I mean, sure, she agreed to pose as his girlfriend (her frumpy facade) for $1K, but she had absolutely no thoughts of soaking him for more. I think my one problem with this is that I find it really hard to believe that a girl can look so vastly different from the first way Mitchell met her, with glasses, no makeup, frumpy clothes, and her hair always up. I just don't understand why Mitchell seemed so oblivious. But their relationship was cute, how it built slowly, and then it imploded a little but ended up in a good place. Overall, a cute story.
December 1, 2018
This was so amazingly good. Funny, emotional (but not angsty), sexy, and has a great supportive cast of characters. I was worried I wouldn't like the heroine because the premise is that she's lying to the hero as part of her sociology thesis, but it actually doesn't come off like she's a jerk at all--it's believable that she would do this because she really is in a bind. And their love feels so, so real.
I'm a huge fan of Elle Kennedy's Off Campus series, and this is very similar--I'll be one-clicking Mackenzie Gray's books now. I'm super excited that this series is just getting started because I have more to look forward to!
I'm a huge fan of Elle Kennedy's Off Campus series, and this is very similar--I'll be one-clicking Mackenzie Gray's books now. I'm super excited that this series is just getting started because I have more to look forward to!
June 24, 2019
Good concept but...
I couldn't finish this book, it was predictable and seemed like the characters "deep connection" came out of nowhere. Because she wore frumpy clothes she was magically unrecognizable? Unlikely.
I couldn't finish this book, it was predictable and seemed like the characters "deep connection" came out of nowhere. Because she wore frumpy clothes she was magically unrecognizable? Unlikely.
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