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𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑑. 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛. 𝐻𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎.

𝐴𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎’𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑟, 𝑆𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦.

𝐴𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝐿𝐴 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠.

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Scarlett was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to Los Angeles when she was 10 years old. Her passion for writing came about at a young age when her sister would read her excerpts of Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. She currently lives back in Sydney with her family and their two pugs. When she isn’t writing or reading, she spends her time traveling and searching for the best record stores. Eventually, Scarlett hopes to begin a new adventure in Edinburgh.

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Title: Challenge

Author: Amy Daws

Release Date: Sept 23, 2016

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He’s her patient. She’s his doctor. They shouldn’t. But God, do they want to.

Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn’t stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie Porter—his redheaded spitfire of a doctor. She’s not his type, not even close. But she could be the perfect distraction from the soul-crushing damage this injury could cost him.

Indie’s tired of her naivety putting a target on her back. As a gifted child, she’s let her education take the front seat her whole life. But a fling with a footballer like Camden might be just what she needs to grab life by the balls.

And he could be the perfect guy for the plan she’s been sitting on for over two years.

But when feelings make a final play, there’s no amount of medicine that can heal the damage to their hearts.

We arrive at my building and take the lift up to my fourth floor flat. As I’m unlocking the front door, she asks, “Are you a good dancer, Camden?”

This question is odd, even for her. “Why do you ask?”

She sighs and leans against the wall just as I open the door. “I envisioned you were tonight when I was dancing with some bloke.”

My jaw clenches. “I don’t need to hear about you dancing with other guys.”

She smirks. “But I was thinking about you so it shouldn’t count.”

“It counts.”

“I think I like this jealous side of you. I might have to use it to my—”

Her snarky comment is cut off by a satisfying yelp as I wrap my arms around her waist and throw her over my shoulder.

“What are you doing?” she squeals as I savour the feel of her bare legs in my hands.

I turn and walk her inside, kicking the door closed with my foot. “Do you think you’re smart, talking to me like that?” I ask, completely unable to hide the smile on my face.

Her hair tickles my back as she giggles. “I am quite smart, actually. I skipped three whole grades in primary school. Did you know that?”

“I didn’t know that. Tell me then, what did they do to punish clever girls with smart mouths in boarding school?”

“Oh, naughty, naughty things.” She giggles again and I have a momentary desire to put her down just so I can see her face when she does it.

“I might need a demonstration.” I walk down the hallway and straight to my room, forgoing the polite flat tour, the offering of drinks, and the inane small talk. Our arrangement is for sex and sex alone.

“I might be inclined to oblige.” Her voice is breathy when we reach the quiet darkness of my room.

Who doesn’t love a sexy, conceited, confident male athlete?

Camden is a hot, popular, British football star. He’s on the way to moving from the minors to the majors. When he is sidelined from a potentially career-ending ACL injury.

Indie is a genius medical student who is doing her rounds in the Patch Ward. When in walk 4 of the hottest male specimens EVER. Indie went to an all-girls boarding school and jumped 3 grades when she was younger, so she’s always been more reserved. She doesn’t know how to handle it when flirty, playboy, mega sports star Camden shows interest in her. She has always been a nose to the grindstone and by the book but Camden just might be able to sway her.

I loved this story! Indie is an awkward, sheltered virgin doctor who doesn’t know what to do when hotness is interested in her. And Camden, for being the playboy, ends up truly falling for Indie.

I definitely want to see more of these brothers! And Belle!

5 stars!

Amy Daws lives in South Dakota with her husband, and miracle daughter, Lorelei. The long-awaited birth of Lorelei is what inspired Amy’s first book, Chasing Hope, and her passion for writing. Amy is a lover of all things British and her award-nominated contemporary romance series, The London Lovers Series, is centered around Americans in London. It’s emotional and self-deprecating with lots of humor sprinkled in.

On most nights, you can find Amy and her family dancing to Strawberry Shortcake’s theme song or stuffing themselves inside children’s-sized playhouses because there is nothing they wouldn’t do for their little miracle.