I am an eighteen year old high school graduate who has just experienced my first… well, everything. I would give anything to hold on to Cooper but we made a decision. After thirty hours of falling in lust, after tonight we are parting ways. I am starting college and I can’t be distracted. Besides he has his own life to get back to. The moment I saw her I knew she was the one but what my heart … one but what my heart wants it doesn’t get. I know how life works. I have been fighting most of my life. My dad was a fighter and so was his dad. I watched my mom cheat on him and in return he destroyed her. I will never do that to a woman. I get thirty hours with Liz and then we are both walking away. At the end of the day, all we will have is the memories we have created here in Miami.
Five years later Liz runs into Cooper only he has no idea that memories weren’t the only thing they created in Miami. He broke her heart once the day he left and her heart is now guarded. Will he succeed in winning her heart back a second time? The only thing he knows for sure is that he is fighting for a second chance and this time he will not let her go.
This book is a 80,000 word full length standalone novel with a HEA.
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I absolutely LOVE this book and these characters.
Cooper not only got a second, but it was more like a 3rd and 4th chance. He kept blowing everything, and at times I felt the need to smack him upside the head. I mean really dude, just step up! His inner turmoil was at a selfish and unpredictable level most the time.
Liz is such a strong women who has done everything to be the women she wanted to be while having a baby on her own. She did not let it hold her back or keep her from being present for herself or her daughter.
She also puts her daughter before all else, even before her own selfish thoughts when it came to everything, but mostly Cooper. I was so proud and excited for her and how she handled everything basically.
Also can you say, WHAT is Kayla’s whole story? I need more of that girl!! 🙂
I seriously loved this book!
This booked sucked me right in and kept me hooked until the very last word. This is a book about two people that were on vacation looking to have a good time but not realizing that the one night would change everything.
This book had so emotions throughout the book and it was not your typical second chance book it was more. I highly recommend this book!
Great debut by this author. The book is about kayla,liz cooper and bella as well as a few secondary characters. Liz and Kala grew up together as best friends.For their high school graduation Liz and kayla take a trip to miami. Liz meets Cooper at a club in miami, he invites her up to his VIP section, the have instant attraction to one another . They end up having a 30 hour one night stand. 5 years later they meet up again. You will love these characters . Take a chance and read this book you will not be dis appointed.
This was a fabulous debut from up and coming new author Nikki Ash! I have a softspot for an alpha who is completely brought to his knees by the love of a strong woman. And boy does that describe Cooper to a T!
Liam ‘Coop’ Cooper is a badass MMA fighter on top the world, when he is immediately knocked out after he spots Liz from a distance at a nightclub. He is immediately smitten and so is she. They hit it off, and spend an amazing weekend together. But demons that Coop would like to keep hidden, keep them from persuing an actual relationship. Fast forward 5 years and a chance encounter, and it looks like these two will finally get their second chance.
I adore love at first sight stories and this one doesn’t disappoint. Cooper and Liz are one of those couples we all wish we could be. Some of the added drama was a little far fetched, that’s why it’s a solid 4 instead of five. But if you love a sweet instalove story, than you will love this one!
This second chance romance was one of the most amazing stories I have read! I am a sucker of 2nd chance romance and hot fighters!!! Liz and cooper meet in a club and have a 30 night stand than go on their way 5 years later they meet back up and cooper doesn’t believe in love because of his past but when he finds out about his daughter there’s def changes 🙂 can’t wait to find out what happens next truely amazing 🙂
Such a great read! (spoilers)
I am so in love with Liz and Cooper. But even more in love with their daughter Belle.
Liz is an innocent high-school graduate who goes to let loose with her best friend Kayla before starting college in Miami. This is where she meets Cooper and spend an unforgettable weekend together. Liz wants to focus on school and Cooper wants to stay focused on his career, so they decide no strings attached is best. Not knowing that they will both end up in the same city of Las Vegas.
An unplanned pregnancy and 5 years later and they come face to face once again. Their relationship was a rollercoaster of emotions and loved how Nikki made me feel every one of them. Their daughter Bella has a huge personality that’s not hard to fall in love with. She is truly a daddy’s girl who’s Cooper wrapped around her little finger. I would live nothing more than to read Bella’s story about her big dreams to be a fighter like her daddy someday.
The bad guy of this story is Cooper’s very own greedy and bitter father. I really wish I could have had more on him though. It just seemed like he messed up really bad and then died. Did he realize that was his own granddaughter he saved with the family resemblance? Did he regret or was sorry about what he did before he died? But even when he died in the story, the damage done to his son lived long after. Leaving Cooper to his insecurities about his past making him his own worse enemy. Lucky for him Liz is strong enough for the both of them to lead this relationship out of that darkness.
I loved the relationships they all had with their friends and family. Cant get enough of these guys and these women along for the ride. Love 2nd chance romance, especially when it comes to secret babies. Cannot wait to get my hands on Kayla and Bentley’s story and see which course their drama will lead them. Plus I’m really hoping to get to know if Cooper gets his baby boy or not.
Nikki Ash is definitely an added author for me to follow. This read is super worth your look and maybe a reread. Will definitely be one I recommend to other readers for sure.
Full on intense second chance MMA romance, and highly recommended read!
“There is no way I am letting this girl go, again.”
Nikki Ash is a new to me author whose book I happened across in a sponsored Facebook post (and don’t you just HATE those!) Nevertheless, the book was a second chance romance (tick) and evolved around the MMA world (TICK!)
We meet 18 year old Liz and her best friend Kayla, who have just graduated High School and off to Miami for an adventure and a break before starting college. Dragged off to a club by her party animal friend, Liz meets the most gorgeous man ever who admits he’s passing through, but would love to spend the last 30 hours he has, with her. No contact details, no consequences, and no regrets.
5 years later, Kayla and Liz have formed their own little family with Liz’s daughter who is a spitting image of her father. They’ve been unable to find any of the boys. Dragged along to a UFC fight, she finally looks into the eye of the man who has haunted her dreams and the last 5 years of her life.
Cooper has given up everything that life has to offer in order to meet the demands set by his father, aka, his manager, and owner of the gym who trains him. After the 30 hours spent with Liz five years ago, he has regrets, and they’ve occasionally surfaced much to his father’s disgust. How she ended up at one of his fights, he doesn’t care, but he’s not letting her go so easily!
Liz and Cooper are two amazingly written main characters. While they are both very strong, they accept life’s challenges without the complaints that we hear so much of in real life. They take the punches and roll with them. They also have some well written friends, and I love them as secondary characters. Kayla has been the best friend and support person that we all dream of, and Cooper’s friend.
Bentley is my favourite. It just so happens that the next book is about them, and I’ve just one-clicked the box set!!! 5 stars – seriously!
ok I like a good heartbreak, tear jerker as well as the next person. But I love it even more when the female isn’t a sniveling whiner. When Liz has to make a choice she doesn’t do that, she puts on her big girl pants and does what needs to be done. LOVE HER!!! Now things are happening with a quickness and the twists and turns would make you dizzy if it weren’t for the awesome story that keeps you grounded. Coop is a hunk-a-burning-love that has issues thanks to his parents but he does turn around. They turn around.
I haven’t read any of this author’s work before now. Not even sure how I found her but I am so glad I did. She writes an amazing story without the endless angst but still makes you feel the emotions. I will most definitely read more from this author.