Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Forbidden, Secret Hookups, Workplace Romance (Football Player x cheerleader) Opposites Attract, Caretaker Hero, High Stakes Relationship, Sneaking Around,  She’s got a spicy bucket list, Witty banter.  Illegal Formation  is the final book in the  Red Zone Rivals  series  it is an interconnected standalone.  What starts as secret hookups and harmless fun quickly turns into something far more dangerous — because the more time we spend sneaking around behind closed doors, the harder it becomes to pretend we’re not already in too deep. Emily Huxley is a free spirit cheerleader / dancer. She likes getting tattoos and piercings. If she likes an image she gets it tattooed. Her parents are very wealthy and often thought she didn’t belong in their world. She has always thought they didn’t like her or want her around as she didn’t fit their mold.  Emily has just moved from Austin, TX up to Seattle fo...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  MC Romance,  Teacher X Biker,  Banter,  Possessive Alpha Veronica is 35 and a principal at the school Phantom's daughter's go to. Veronica loves working with the parents, kids, facility, the surrounding area and town. She loves to serve and work in her community. Veronica doesn't trust people often, she doesn't throw caution to the wind either. But being with Hawk she can't see to help herself, she wants everything when she's with him. Veronica has a elderly father who she checks on constantly when she isn't at work. And she also has a sister who she's very close with and talks on the phone with her daily also.  We start the story off with Hawk (Nico) babysitting (teen sitting) Phantom's two teenage daughters - Holly & Daisy, while Phantom and his wife and toddler have a few days away. Hawk is responsible for the girls during the day - getting them to and from school. Hawk has no idea how long it takes two teenage gi...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Professional Bull Rider x Mafia Underboss MMC, Criminal Journalist FMC, Second Chance Romance, Childhood Sweethearts, She's Investigating his crimes, She's engaged to another man, All the angst, yearning and heartbreak. Unleashed is a dark cowboy romance with a mafia twist. Unleashed is a standalone romance, but part of the Beneath the Reign series, where each book follows one of the brothers in the Sterling family. This story is Ace & Harper. Ace Sterling, is a world champion bull rider. He loves working on his family ranch in New Falls, AZ and riding bulls during the rodeo season. He loved Harper, and hasn't moved on from her even after 6 yrs of not having her. Ace and his brothers and cousins are also part of a mafia that they work for.  Harper Jones, is now a criminal journalist for the LA Press, who lives in LA. She has been burying the Sterling Families secrets, and now she's back in AZ to uncover a criminal story. Her plan was to ...

  Book Rating:    Book Tropes: Sports Romance, Football romance, found family, enemies to lovers, small town romance, forbidden romance. Knox  is the youngest son in the  Bradford football dynasty. He is the new quarterback with the New Orleans Saints Football team. He is new to the team, and feeling out the players and what they can do / he can do in his first & second season. Knox has a lot riding on him from his family, trying to keep up the family sports traditions. Melody, is a sports podcaster who zero-ins on Knox and his struggles. Melody grew up in a football household also. Her father played in the NFL, and they would always go over games and plays, she knows more about football than most people. Melody does do Uber rides every so often, when she needs some extra cash. Melody did have a partner who she was doing the sports podcasting with. Except they did part ways. Her old partner wanted to do black mail in a way on players and see their reaction, ...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Baseball Romance, Small Town Romance, Grumpy x Sunshine,  City Girl FMC, Country Boy MMC, PR x Player, Opposites Attract Jake McKinney is a young up and coming catcher for Sweetwater Mavericks AA baseball team. He thinks he may have been skipped over by the scouts as he hasn't been called up yet. His dad Roddy McKinney has been a catcher in the Major League baseball for awhile, and he thinks people skip over him due to his dad, Roddy McKinney.  Campbell wants to be a sports public relations specialist. She got on with the Sweetwater Mavericks, much to her fathers dismay. He wants her to put her law degree to use in his law firm, but that's not what Campbell wants.  Campbell sees that Jake struggles with the media. They all show him in a brute way. Campbell wants to work with Jake and show he's able to give back to the team, and help the younger  players out. Campbell wants to do a interview with Jake and his Dad Roddy, and she ...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Enemies to Lovers,  Small Town,  Fake Marriage,  Roommates,  Polo Romance,  Reformed Playboy This is the fourth book in the series. You can read each as a stand alone. The characters are described who is who in each book. The characters are throughout each book in the series.  Miles,  Lord Burlington , has always been the playboy of the family. He is a polo player, and a player in real life. Never really holding onto anyone longer than a one night stand, no one has ever caught his attention. Miles and his family have never wanted / needed for anything. They are very wealthy, and spending money isn't something they have a problem with. Miles has always wanted to be a top Polo player. He is currently ranked number 9 and wants to move up further over the summer. Ruby Lanson is from Iowa, she is American. She has always wanted to be a polo player, for the past few years she has been a groom for a few different p...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: S mall Town,  Enemies to Lovers,  Fake Engagement,  Best Friends Sister,  Slow Burn This is book #4 in the series. You don't need to read them in order or before as they are each standalones. But knowing who is who in the books makes reading the series amazing.  We met both Elliott and Dilynne back in book #1. Here book #4 we have a bit of a repeat of what is going on as it shows Elliot's side of and of Dilynne's from the time of the wedding up to current day.  Elliot Thorne is a lawyer who was just left at the alter. He turns to   alcohol   to help him get through the pain and tries to forget the wedding and Tori who left him at the alter. Dilynne is there at the beginning of his struggles to help him get ahold of himself and he starts to heal thanks to her.  Dilynne is the small towns mechanic. She works in a  specialty  auto shop where she works on classic cars working to restore them to w...