Friday, July 6, 2018

Refuse to Lose - A Coach's Love #1 - by Alison Mello



 



About the Book

I thought I was helping a friend, but instead I only managed to get myself in a heap of trouble which left me with two options. Coach little league as part of community service…or face jail time.

So here I am…coaching little league, a project I wasn’t looking forward to—that’s until I see Stella at the field with her son. Unfortunately for me it takes a lot longer than I’d hoped for her to give me the time of day.

Yet, now that I’ve caught her attention, things are much more complicated than I thought. Who knew juggling a struggling friend, community service, a team bully and a girlfriend would be this hard?

But I won’t let it get me down. Someone once told me the secret to success, and come hell or high water I’ll show everyone around me that I…

…refuse to lose. 





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About the Author

Alison started writing during the early summer of 2015. Her debut book Finding Love (October 2015) was published by Siren Publishing. Her following books Needing Your Love (November 2015), Found My Love (December 2015), and Fighting for Love (January 2016) were also published with Siren to finish the Learning to Love series.

Her desire to see her books on shelves led to her next work Chasing Dreams (April 2015) She submitted it for publication with Limitless Publishing and was thrilled that it was quickly accepted. At the request of her readers she turned Chasing Dreams into the Club Thrive series. Excited to reach that goal, she moved on to the next series she had in mind and wrote Saved By a Soldier (June 2016), My Broken Soldier (July 2016), Forever My Soldier (August 2016), and A Soldier for Bella (September 2016).

Alison enjoyed reading as a child and found her passion for it again in 2011 when E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey was released. Her love of reading was re-ignited and she continued reading other books in the same genre. In the summer of 2015, she decided to give writing a try and two weeks later Finding Love was born. As soon as she finished the first book, she began writing the second book in the series. Her third book was finished by the time Finding Love had been accepted for publication. Alison discovered she has a passion for writing and has spent the last year meeting new readers and sharing the love she has for writing.

Married to her own real life hero, Alison lives with her amazing family in Massachusetts where she was born and raised. She loves having her own personal inspiration right at home and when she’s not writing she enjoys playing soccer, basketball, and football with her son.


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This is my first time reading this author and I loved everything about this story. Stella is a mom who lives in NYC but life has been very hard for her and her son. She dreams of a better life, so she packs their stuff and they take off and she ends up in a small town where she gets a job at the diner.The diner owner becomes her bestie and she also has a son the same age as Stella's so they form a very close friendship.

Trystan lives in the same small town and works construction, he is a former baseball player and one of his besties lost his wife and son in an accident and he has been drinking to dull the pain. One night his drinking is so bad that Trystan ends up having to drive while under the influence and ends up with a DUI. The judge sentences him to coaching the towns struggling baseball team.

And that is how he gets to know Stella. I loved how into Stella he is. How much Stella loves her new town and how she ends up helping Trystan's friend deal with his loss. This was a wonderful story about loss, love, life, friendship and learning how to be strong and help your community. It was extremely well written and I loved all the characters in the story.

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