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ALC provided by Dreamscape Media via NetGalley

Author: K. Bromberg

Narrators:  Samantha Brentmoor and Gary Furlong

Thanks, Dreamscape Select for the ALC.

When Whitney gets a call from the Miami Mayhem administration saying they want to help her rundown soccer academy, she’s elated. The place means everything to her as it was where she found shelter and purpose as a kid living in foster care. She never got to realize her own dreams of playing at collegiate level, but she’s working hard to make to make it happen to other kids.

So, when they offer to send soccer superstar Alexander Hardy, Brit import to the MLS, to play with the kids and do some press, she thinks it’s a dream – meeting her idol and getting financial help for the academy.

But… the arrogant sex symbol stood her (and the kids!) up. The nerve! She confronts him and they ending up betting on soccer skills. If he loses, he’ll have to dedicate a month to the academy. His reputation is down in the dumps with the MLS, so he’d better not screw this up. Too bad he’s completely smitten with the feisty girl…

What a delightful audiobook! Narrated dual style by Samantha Brentmoor and Gary Furlong, who rock! They both switch back and forth between different voices and  accents and it’s perfection! 

I loved this one! Whitney is someone you want to cheer for. Coming from a life of abandonment, you understand her unwillingness to believe good things can happen to her and that people do stay. Hardy is the perfect bad boy with a heart of gold. You get to see the layers peeled off of him and why he’s also someone who lost so much and you understand. 

It’s a lovely story of found family, showing up, healing from past trauma, Cinderella moments, achieving dreams, finding new dreams. As they say in my country: GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAL!!!!

Content notes: toxic relationship with parents, living in foster care, mentions of drug use and overdose, psychological child abuse, child abandonment, death of a loved one