Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Mills-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 29, 2022.

Gorgeous, talented, and brilliant, NFL quarterback Ronan Smith has the world in his hands. But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night.

Former beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand.

Fast-forward two years. Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. But he has no idea who she is.

The booster club keeps shoving women at Ronan to keep him in town. His solution? He proposes fake dating to Nova. But things heat up for real under these Friday-night lights when he realizes she’s the one who slipped away.

Has this jaded beauty found her forever baller, or will his past keep them apart?

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REVIEW:  THE BEAUTY AND THE BALLER by Ilsa Madden Mills is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, erotic, romance story line focusing on twenty-nine year old, art teacher and former beauty queen Nova Morgan, and thirty-two year old, injured NFL quarterback Ronan Smith.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Nova and Rona) BEAUTY AND THE BALLER follows the building romance and relationship between art teacher and former beauty queen Nova Morgan, and thirty-two year old, injured NFL quarterback Ronan Smith. Three years earlier NFL quarterback Ronan Smith lost the love of his life and his career on the same night. One year later, a drunken one night stand with a stranger in New York left Ronan questioning his choices in life, having reached rock bottom before his upward climb back to the living. Fast forward two years, Ronan Smith, now teaching history and coaching football in Blue Belle, Texas will come face to face with his one-night stand, his new neighbor, Blue Belle alumni, and the woman with whom Ronan will fall in love. Hired as the high school’s new part time English teacher, and Coach Ronan’s PA, Nova Morgan struggles with what was, and what will never be. To keep the ‘predators’ at bay, Ronan and Nova agree to a fake relationship, a relationship that will quickly turn into something more. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Ronan and Nova, and the potential fall-out when Ronan is offered another chance in the big leagues, leaving Blue Belle and Nova behind.

Nova Morgan returned to Blue Belle, Texas to look after her younger sister in the wake of their mother’s death. Never expecting to return to her hometown, Nova must now face the ghosts of her past, ghosts that are continuous reminders of love found and lost. Scarred both inside and out, Ronan Smith battles between head and heart with his attraction to, and need for our story line heroine but Ronan is unable to get past the death of his first love, and the loss of his career as a quarterback in the NFL.

The relationship between Ronan and Nova begins as a one-night stand wherein Ronan has no idea as to the who and why. Ronan is a Star Wars fan; a geek collector of everything from the galaxy far, far away, but the moment Nova descended into his life dressed as Princess Leia, Ronan knew his life would never be the same. In an effort to stop the local busy-bodies from trying to set him up with every single mother in Blue Belle, Ronan offers up a fake-relationship, a relationship that becomes all too real in a very short time. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters are frenetic, flirty and energetic. We are introduced to Ronan’s best friends and fellow football player Tuck; Nova’s sister Sabine; fellow teachers and exes, high school students and a championship football team.

BEAUTY AND THE BALLER is a story of loss and grief; friendships and family; acceptance and love. The character driven premise is emotional, entertaining and impassioned; the characters are sassy and spirited; the romance is captivating, tender and sensual.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies.

Fourteen of her Eighteen novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1; Not My Romeo #1; The Revenge Pact #1; Dear Ava, Fake Fiancée, I Dare You, and I Promise You #2; I Hate You #5; Not My Match, I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6; Boyfriend Bargain #8; The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females.