Lucky Shot (Miami Mayhem 1) by K. Bromberg-review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 13, 2025
Our first meeting? He stood me up.
Our second chance encounter? I told him exactly what I thought of him.
Our third? It came with a bet (he lost) and an understanding that we’re stuck with one another.
It doesn’t matter that he’s Alexander Hardy—British soccer star extraordinaire, world-famous in every way, and a certified sex symbol. We come from two different worlds and live in two different realities. But all we need is one month.
The bet: Help him rehab his reputation to the media and the masses, and in exchange, he’ll help my soccer academy and the underprivileged kids who idolize him.
That doesn’t mean I have to like him. Not his delicious accent, his sexy smirk or those storm cloud gray eyes. Not his incredibly fit body or his sinfully dirty mouth. Not even the way he shows up day after day for the kids or the way he looks at me like he wants to devour me.
He looks at time spent in my world as a penance, while I look at it as a way to leverage his star power to help my academy survive.
But as the days turn to weeks, it seems we’re not as different as I once thought. The man who cares about no one, has fixed his sights on me. With his time at my academy up and his obligations back home calling, do we have a lucky shot of working out?
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REVIEW:LUCKY SHOT is the first instalment in K. Bromberg’s contemporary, adult MIAMI MAYHEM erotic, soccer romance series. This is British soccer star Alexander Hardy, and Whitney Barnes’ story line.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Hardy and Whitney) LUCKY SHOT follows the tempestuous relationship between British soccer star Alexander Hardy, and Whitney Barnes. Alexander Hardy has been ‘sent’ to America in an effort to regroup, and escape a scandal back home but his demons follow Hardy to America, as he struggles to find his place on the Miami Mayhem Soccer team. Forced to volunteer at a local soccer academy for underprivileged kids, Hardy will come face to face with academy owner Whitney Barnes. Whitney grew up in the foster care system, and without the encouragement of the soccer academy may not have survived the world in which she lived. Working side by side with Alexander Hardy, Whitney struggles to accept his help in the face of their fiery introduction at the Prestige Soccer Academy but as the days turn into weeks, Whitney allows a little bit of heart to open only to find herself pulling back all the time. Hardy’s time in America comes with an expiry date, and Whitney, once again struggles with another perceived betrayal.
The world building follows the back and forth, emotional and heated relationship between Whitney and Hardy. Upon their first introduction Hardy disappointed everyone involved, hating his circumstance and taking it out on our story line heroine. Battling his own demons, Hardy struggled with his ‘punishment’, a punishment that brought him face to face with a woman battling demons of her own. Whitney is a stubborn, secretive, struggling, self conscious, proud yet often ungrateful, and untrusting heroine whose life experiences have left her bitter and lost. Her pride is her downfall, as she is suspicious of everyone including the man with whom she is falling in love-not an easy heroine to like.
The relationship between Whitney and Hardy begins acrimoniously as Hardy is a disappointing mentor and representative of the game of soccer. Whitney battles between head and heart, refusing any and all help, including help when it comes to her own safety and health. Days turn into weeks, and just as you think all is going well, something else pulls Whitney back into the past, as she refuses to accept Hardy going forward. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
The secondary and supporting characters are colorful and energetic. We are introduced to soccer team owner Rush Mackenzie, Agent Lennox Mackenzie, PR rep Ari Winters; original academy owner and mentor Coach Patrick Dunn; Whitney’s best friend Suri, as well as several underprivileged children and teens.
LUCKY SHOT is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, disappointment and dysfunction, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is heart breaking and captivating; the romance struggles in the face of skepticism and uncertainty; the characters are a little bit broken and dynamic.
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Reviewed by Sandy
New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love.
A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow.
Since publishing her first book in 2013, K. has sold over one million copies of her books and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over twenty-five times.
In April, she’ll release The Player, the first in a two-book sports romance series (The Catch, book 2, will be released late June), with many more already outlined and ready to be written.
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