REVIEW - The Player Next Door by Kathy Lyons

The Book

Release Date: 21 July 2015

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NBA star Mike Giamaria doesn't mix basketball with love. Ever. Then Mike meets Tori Williams, his cute, quirky new neighbor who seems hell bent on refurbishing her death trap of a house on her own. When she falls from her roof and into his arms, Mike knows he's just caught a whole heap of trouble.

Trouble sums up Tori's life. Despite her academic success, no one believes she can take care of herself-not her family, not her ex-boyfriend. She's determined to live her life on her own terms, and if that includes a hot summer fling with the super-sexy athlete next door, so much the better.

But when Tori's around, Mike can't keep his mind on basketball. He wants...more. And to his horror, not just more time on the court. When training starts, it's game over-it has to be-unless Tori can convince Mike that love doesn't belong on the sidelines.

My Review    4 STARS

**My thanks to Netgalley and Entangled Publishing LLC, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Tori has decided to leave her boyfriend after an aunt has left her her house in the will and her boyfriend is less than supportive of what she really wants.

Moving in however she find that the man currently living next door is injured when her rescues her from falling off the roof that she is fixing.

Tori is extremely smart, but everyone underestimates her, but she does keep having accidents of forgetting the everyday things.  Mike, her house sitter next door who rescues her soon becomes interested in her.  She is fun, a hazard to herself and extremely sexy, but also a distraction.

I loved seeing the relationship develop with all the little bumps that happen along the way with other people interfering.