REVIEW - He was Playing for Keeps (Magnolia Valley #4) by Cora Reed

The Book
Release Date: 11 March 2019
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She manages the lodge during the day and writes steamy romance novels at night...

Quinn Lawson manages the upscale lodge in Magnolia Valley and there has never been a problem too difficult for her to fix. But now, with the lodge facing financial ruin, she's forced to partner with the last person she wants to work with, former tennis star Caine Wilder. 

When circumstances force them to pretend to be a couple, Quinn sees far more of Caine and it is more and more difficult to conceal her attraction and hide her well-kept secret. She is Elois Montgomery, the popular romance author, and the sexy main character in her latest novel is based off of Caine. 

He's a playboy tennis player with a recently ruined knee, forced to take over his family's failing business...

Caine has never had any trouble charming women, but the lodge's beautiful manager is immune to his charms. No matter what he does, she thinks the worst of him. But despite her open dislike, he can't stop thinking about her. He's determined to get her to give him a shot. 

But soon, Caine realizes he's underestimated his attraction to Quinn. She isn't like any woman he's met before. And for the first time in his life, he might have to learn how to play for keeps. 

As family secrets and old grudges come to light, it threatens the love that neither of them could have expected.

My Review  4 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Yay, finally we have Caine and Quinn's story!

We have previously met both Caine and Quinn in previous books and there was definitely something between the two with the way they reacted between each other.  In this book we get to see how both really fell about each other and why they reacted the way they did.

Quinn is also hiding a secret that not many people know, that she is the sucessful author Elois Montgomery and that one of her characters is loosely based on Caine.

We get to meet a good amount of new characters in  this book and you can't help but hope that some of them will get their own book, like Caine's oldest brother and Quinn's all but sister Freya.

I really look forward to the next book in the series.