Focused by Karla Sorensen

 

If you've ever seen your teenage crush ten years later, and he turns out to be a complete jerk, then you know how Molly Ward feels. 

The last time she saw Noah Griffin was the regrettable day that she decided to climb into his bedroom window and turn her unrequited crush into something more. 

That day was bad enough, but things are about to get worse. 

Noah has become one of the best football players in the country, and he’s just landed on Molly’s front step. 

As a new addition to the Washington Wolves roster, Noah's presence is the key to Molly’s promotion in the front office. 

The problem is, Noah wants nothing to do with Molly, and his surly attitude is making her job very difficult. 

But he's got another thing coming if he thinks Molly will be intimidated by one grumpy football player, no matter how much he hates being around her. 

Once these two go head to head, their mutual dislike explodes into undeniable chemistry. But with what they have at stake, they just might detonate everything else along with it.

Michelle Claypot_reads “All the stars in the world for this! What a way to kick off my reading for 2020!! Oh my heart! This was absolute perfection.”

The Overflowing Bookcase “A wonderful novel that will become one I will re-read time and time again.”

PP’s Bookshelf “I just love when authors make me feel every single confusing, infuriating, breathtaking and heartbreaking feeling right in my heart. And Karla Sorensen did exactly that in Focused.”

Well, let’s see ... I’m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone's face, then I've done my job. I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I’m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob. If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I'll love you forever.

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This was a wonderful start to the new series about the Ward sisters. This is the first sisters story and it stars the oldest Molly who we last met when she was 16 and had a HUGE crush on her neighbors son, Noah. Now they both are in their 20's and they meet again, Noah as the new player on their football team and Molly as the person hired to handle him,

I loved the premise of this story. Essentially Amazon is working with the Washington Wolves team to bring Noah's story to life for the Amazon documentary original series All or Nothing and Molly is promoted to be his main contact and to coordinate that.

For Molly she has grown up and has a fantastic life but Noah has grown up cold and isolated and their first meet was sorta when Molly finds them with a lot of antagonism. For Noah its how he was brought up though he wants to connect, he has no idea how.

This was a really fun story that starts in The Marriage Effect and continues on here and it starts out as enemies and turns into friends. I was a wonderful story and I loved everything about it.