HarperI fell in love when I was sixteen. Landon was my entire world and I thought he would be my forever. But I was young and dumb, and with one error in judgement, I destroyed any chance of a future we could’ve had together, along with our hearts.Twelve years later and I’m going through the motions of life, but not actually living. Which is why I let my friends, Bridget and Simon, set me up on a … set me up on a blind date. Turns out, it’s not so blind after all. Because the man sitting in front of me is the same man who’s held onto my heart all these years.
Landon
They call me a Clutch Player because I’m good under pressure and quick on my feet. I was also quick to fall in love. The first time it was with baseball, the second was with Harper. And for a short time I had them both.
Until I lost Harper and all I had left was baseball.
For years, I focused on my career. I had accepted that baseball was my one true love.
Until I saw her again. I never imagined we’d ever get a second chance, but now that she’s sitting right across from me, I know there’s no way in hell I’m going to let her go again.
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Nikki hit it out of the ballpark with this one
Landon and Harper were amazing together along with El and Hunter… Wow! Their journey was a long one but it was worth it when it all came together perfectly Be prepared to feel…. Make sure you are ready to have your emotions ran through the ringer because Nikki makes you feel every last one of em!! You will be so happy, so mad, so sad and so excited! It was wonderful to get to hear from Bridget and Simon too they are great support all around! One click asap and enjoy the world of these amazing Cocky Heros
Like expected I loved this story. This was an amazing second Chance romance that includes lots of drama. Overall great story
I was so excited to read this book and boy did it deliver!! I love second chance romances but you get to see the couple fall in love twice. Landon is amazing and so swoon worthy, that I just absolutely love him!!
Nikki Ash’s Clutch Player is just the book for those seeking escape from their everyday world. Having been in a reading funk, Ash’s second chance romance brought me back to life and filled me with the urgent desire to devour this story. Landon, Harper, and even poor old Richie’s story was consumed from cover to cover as life twisted and turned it’s way between the three.
This story engulfed me from beginning to end. Ash’s characters were so loveable, so perfect for each other but also ravaged by time. By starting this one off in high school, Ash is able to show you the depth of the story, the guilt, the hurt and the healing as Landon and Harper reunite and come full circle.
Once again, Ash has written another novel that completely consumed me. I love her characters, her family units, and her devoted side characters that root them along. Clutch Player was no different. It’s heartwarming message lifted my spirit.
Oh my Landon….you have STOLE MY HEART!!!! Harper and Landon have taken the cake for my favorite Nikki Ash couple I could not put this book down. This story had me so engrossed from the time they were teenagers…Landon totally had me SWOONING! To what tore them apart, to the future. I just loved how much Landon loved…how big of a heart he had throughout the entire story. And Harper reasoning behind her choices…I definitely felt for her. Be prepared to be in all your feels from start to finish! This is surely a book to read over and over again.
Nikki ash is the amazing! I loved this book read it one night of course wasn’t planning on reading it one I end up doing that. Harper and Landon are amazing harper is amazing mom this book loved the kids too
When I saw Nikki’s name pop up in the Cock Hero Series I knew I had to sign up!
This was so good!
The story starts off with Harper as a teenager and discovering her first love. The story eventually evolves to 12 years later and how life has changed for Harper who now has a family and trying to restart her life when a blind date changes everything.
This was a nice fast paced read and so many enjoyable and emotional moments.
That epilogue was incredible.
Clutch Player..is a grand slam!!
Nikki Ash has a way with words. This book has moved to the top of my favorites list. Landon and Harper are the sweetest high school couple. They are each other’s first loves. When Landon gets drafted and has to leave they try to make it work. Situations arise and things do not work out. However over several years they never stopped thinking of each other. As fate would have it they get to meet again. Pick up this book to see how it all plays out. You will laugh and you will cry. You may even believe in first love and fate. You won’t be disappointed. Another 5 star read for sure.
Another fantastic read from the Cocky Hero Club! This had the perfect amount of love and angst and together, made for a engrossing story that had me reading straight through.
This was my second read in The Cocky Hero Club, and wow, I am so hooked!
Landon and Harper became friends in high school, and that friendship evolved into love. They were so perfect together, but with their futures pulling them in different directions, it wasn’t destined to last. Choices and mistakes were made, and irrevocable consequences and broken hearts were the result. This begged the question…is is really better to have love and lost than to never have experienced what they had?
Twelve years, a whole lot of living, and a blind date later, they are back in each other’s lives and I couldn’t have been happier! To Landon and Harper, it didn’t feel like twelve years had gone by because their love was just as much a part of the present as it was the past. Landon is literally the sweetest and sexiest book boyfriend ever, and these two are so hot and steamy together, you may need a fan! Navigating their new relationship isn’t without a few bumps, but the feel good ending left me smiling ear to ear.
A great balance of passion, humor and some angst made it a great fun read!
Well written, and well paced, these characters were well developed and were easy to like and relate to.
Harper and Sloan’s story is a friends to lovers second chance romance that is sure to make you fall in love with them.
Their chemistry was combustible and banter was hilarious.
This author’s contribution to the Cocky Hero does not disappoint.
4.5 stars!
Absolutely love second chance romance books. This one is that and so much more. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, but second chances are given if you take them. I have to say so far I have read three from the cocky hero club series and this one is my favorite. There was just something about this one. It was heart wrenching, amazing, put you back together, loving, well written, characters with some amazing chemistry. All that and more. I wanted to cry while reading this, throw my kindle and then climb into my kindle and hug the characters.
Harper and Landon were friends in high school. They were best friends. But slowly things between them changed. But one thing they always promised was no matter what happened between them they would remain friends. But Landon gets called to the major’s and these two loose the connection they have. One night for Harper changes everything.
Many years later and many changes later Harper is set up on a blind date by her friends. Little does she know that it is Landon.
Will these two be able to put the broken pieces back together after all this time? Will Harper and Landon still have the same feelings for each other? This was a well written, gripping, enjoyable storyline from beginning to end. Have tissues you will need them. My favorite from this series.
When young love blossoms, one gets sucked right into the heart of two people who know a love that most yearn for. But, as with all love, Harper and Landon find their worlds turned upside down, and suddenly in this second chance romance by new to me author, Nikki Ash, these two soulmates must find their way back to each other, no matter the cost.
But in the end, you get laughter, love, and a beautiful story woven together for the Cocky World Series that makes you sigh happily, and fall in love with this series all over again
I was not ready for how good this book is. Definitely a top read of 2020 for me. Throughout the whole book, I had so many emotions, I was able to feel how the characters was feeling, I cried, smile, had fun, cried a little more (from sadness and then happiness), felt anger and so much love. I’ve never read any Nikki’s books before this one, but now I’m a fan. Only a good writer can make you feel all of this.
This second chance romance stole my heart, as Landon and Harper did. It all started when she was 16 years old and he one year older. They built their love one day at a time through friendship, protectiveness and support. And it was a love that would never fail. Until he is draft to a baseball team located 11 hours from home.
They were young and immature. Wrong decisions were made. But nothing could have prepare me for their confrontation some months later after their breakup, when he was back to town and she was pregnant, of another guy. One decision. One choice. That was all it took for their lives to change. The angst, the pain and tears. Killed. Me.
Forward 12 years, she has 2 kids and a divorce and he is a famous retired player. Suddenly their matched in a blind date and all their lives are mixed together in a explosion of love, friendship and a palpable chemistry.
Let me tell you something, Landon is the guy to compare with. Find yourself a guy like him, I fell in love with Landon within every chapter. And he was ready to just forget the past and move forward with Harper and her kids. “We might’ve lost the last twelve years, but if we start right now, we can still have a good sixty together.” My heart!
I also adore Harper, she is such a strong woman, fantastic mother, friend and girlfriend. The things she had to endure, and still coming strong. I loved her friendship with Bridget and Simon, her kids were so well written too. I had a lot of laughs with Harper’s clumsy situations and their friends shenanigans.
Richie, yeah, as Landon I will never call him Richard, deserves to be alone and he was lucky that Landon and Harper let it go of his wrongdoings in face of protecting their kids. And I hate him.
I don’t think I’ve read a better epilogue then this one. It was perfect, with laughs and so many emotions. I sincerely loved Hunter’s (Harper’s son) request at the end and all the family interaction. My only problem with the book was that it ended, I could read so much more. I think I’m ready for a reread.
Baseball is my new favorite sport!!!
This was such a fantastic read! This story is the epitome of second chance romance and I loved every minute of it. Not very many people can find the love of their lives at a young age and have it stand the test of times, but these two did.
Harper and Landon are my favorite kind of couple, they start out as BFF’s and then they go through that should we shouldn’t we stage and then one or both takes that magical leap of faith and woohoo they become a couple. But then due to circumstances out of their control they get torn about and bring on that angst that gets you right in the damn feels. Ya know that feeling that makes you wanna throw your kindle right out the window. Be prepared for that my friends!!!
But then in pure Nikki Ash fashion there is this shift in the world’s axis and some how these two who never stopped loving each other find one another again and bam all is right in the world again!!!!! This was a fantastic read and just left me wanting more!
I have not read British Bedmate by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, that is the book that Clutch Player spins off from on the Cocky Hero Club world. I didn’t feel like I missed out on anything and Nikki seamlessly integrated Simon and Bridget into the story as friends of the heroine. She provided enough information to get to know their characters that I didn’t feel like I needed to read their story to know them better.
Clutch Player focuses around Harper the heroine and Landon the Hero. For the first portion of the book we see them at the age of 18 and how their friendship grows into first love. Then their world begins to fall apart as Landon is drafted as a baseball player and Harper’s life is flipped upside down after she made the biggest mistake of her life. Nikki never fails to bring all the feels and at this point in the book my heart, oh it hurt so much!
Skip forward 12 years and we see Landon and Harper as two very different people with their own lives, until their paths cross on a blind date. Even after all their time apart the connection is still as strong as ever, you get to fall in love with them as young adults, and you fall in love with them all over again 12 years later. Nikki beautifully blends romance, humour and the perfect level of emotion that shows the skill she holds in her craft. There are still a few twists along the road to the HEA and my heart loved every moment of the journey this book took me on. I think this is one of my favourite books from Nikki! For all the second chance romance lovers out there, this is one book you do not want to miss!
Nikki hit another story out of the ballpark….pun intended I love a second chance romance, that gives me all the swoon feelings and this story did just that for me! It was an easy to read well flowing story with lol moments, witty banter and all the fun sexy times. Harper and Landon are easy to love characters who stole my heart and had me rooting for them the whole way. I invested in their journey from the beginning, laughing, tearing up and swooning each step of the way. This is an overall heartwarming read with a little bit of everything, and wonderful characters! Go enjoy it!
I have to say I always love Nikki Ash’s books but this one defiantly “hit it out of the park”!!! I loved Landon. I thought he was such a great person in the beginning in school helping Harper out and being her friend, while they dated and even the fast forward to after Landon and Harper re connect. The instant connection they had was so sweet. Harper was also an awesome person character being an amazing Mom. I thought it was funny at the references towards Dick,Richie or Richard (his many names). I liked the jealousy in the book, the sassiness. It was such a great story very well written and such a great storyline with a HEA!!!!
I neeeeded this book badly. I have had the longest six weeks of my life with no book able to hold my attention long enough to finish it. But then came Harper and Landon and Bye Bye book slump!
We are talking sports romance, second chance, single parent, low angst, cute kids, and all the good stuff. Just what the doctor ordered.
I am in love with these people. The only thing wrong with this book is the lack of sequel, I want to know so much more…
A straight up homerun *pun intended*
5 stars is. It enough! FLOVE this story so much.
Second chance romance is my favorite. Landon and Harper are everything. Sweet angst, a lot of growing up, strong heroine, swoony hero. This books sucks you in and doesn’t have any unnecessary push and pull with the h&H.