I met Keegan when I was on the beach in Florida.He literally crashed into my world. I wasn’t looking for romance, but his two-dimpled charm made my heart go haywire.We both had one thing in common: we were here to escape our realities. One week. Just the two of us. Not a care in the world. I didn’t know it at the time, but that week would forever change my life.Four years later, and as fate would … life.
Four years later, and as fate would have it, Keegan and I are brought together again.
It’s as if the universe is telling us this is our second chance.
The more I get to know him, the harder I fall.
Falling hopelessly in love is inevitable with a man like him.
Only the joke’s on me, because the guy I’m falling for isn’t the man I thought he was.
You know how the saying goes: Fool me once…
I’ll be damned if I’m fooled again.
Fool Me Once is a standalone romance
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A cute romance with twists and turns throughout. The story starts with us meeting Blakely and finding out that her and her sister have been through a traumatic event and her sister Sierra doesn’t have much to do with her sister any more until she wants her to go to spring break so she can go too. Blakely’s sister is heading down a bad path and Blakely worries about her but refuses to take the same path, so she spends spring break on the beach reading with fate steps in and she meets Keegan. These two have an instant attraction and spend a week together hanging out and when its over they go their separate ways. Fate once again steps in and leaves Blakely with a gift and she spends the next 4 years still pining away for the one that got away. Once her and her sister figure out what they are going to do her sister steps up in a major way and helps her out in major ways and even helps her set out to try and find Keegan even if it is hopeless. Fate has a way with the two of them as it once again brings them together but she knows Keegan is keeping things from her and no matter how hard they try to become more and a family he still doesn’t inform her what is really going on. I felt bad for Blakely because all she wanted was a family not only for herself but for her kid too and she gets it just to have almost ripped away time and time again. There are a few twists and turns that happen towards the end and we finally learn what Keegan was up to this whole time and they fate finally allows them their happily ever ending.
I never go wrong picking up a Nikki Ash book. Nikki Ash is known for swoony, protective men and babies. Fool Me Once met all my expectations. The story weaved everything I expected with a little mystery mixed in.
Sweet, possessive hero
Strong heroine
Secret child
Suspense
Steamy scenes
Blakely relectantly joins her sister for Spring Break at the beach. Keegan is at a cross-roads when it comes to his future. While hanging out at the beach, these two find themselves crossing paths and have an instant connection and spend their days together. Due to an unfortunate event Keegan isn’t able to contact Blakely. A misunderstanding four years later, bring Keegan to Blakely’s apartment. Their Spring Break Fling resulted in the most adorable SpongeBob loving, dimpled three-year-old. Keegan instantly accepts his son, Blakely, and her sister into his family. As they begin to build their family unit, secrets begin to unfold.
Fool Me Once is an easy, light read. It is sweet with just a dose of surprise and mystery to keep you turning the page.
The plot wasn’t anything like what I expected, especially with the twist of Keegan’s secret. I love second chance romances & this one didn’t disappoint. Blakey and Keegan both felt a connection when they met 4 years ago, but he dropped his phone almost immediately after they parted ways. She ended up pregnant and worked hard to go to school. I loved that he knew immediately when he saw her that he wanted another shot, and he knew by looking that the kid was his.
Fool Me Once is a great story about a springbreak-fling between Blakely and Keegan, who both wanna escape their reality.
Four years later they met again and the story gets more interesting.
In this book you’ll find some twists you don’t imagine in the beginning. It turns out to be a really good story with great characters.
Great listen by Nikki Ash! Blakely & Keegan’s story is not a typical one. Love the twists & turns in this book. Awesome narration by Kelsey Navarro & Tim Paige
Blakely’s sister drags her to the beach for spring break and ignores her the entire time. While lounging on the beach, Blakely is assaulted by a football that Keegan is playing with. They end up spending the next couple of days together both knowing that they only have these couple of days and that they will ignore reality during this time. Four years later Keegan and Blakely run into each other again but neither of them are the same person yet their chemistry and pull towards each other is still there.
I had a bit of deja vu with this one – spring break in Florida with a surprise/secret pregnancy? Good thing I love this stuff! This book at some pretty funny moments that I loved. And it also was pretty predictable for me. There were a few things I figured out early on but it didn’t take anything away from the story for me since there was still a lot that I didn’t see coming. This is another second chance story where we got to see how their story began and I love love love when that happens. Wished that we could have seen Keegan’s POV during that time but it is what it is. When we do finally get his POV I loved him. He was perfection. And when he called her Jailbird! Love it!!! I adored Blakely and Keegan. Another one that I loved from Nikki Ash!
What an incredible second chance surprise baby story that consumed me from the beginning. My heart broke for Blakely and Sierra and their upbringing and when she met Keegan I was hoping all would be right. Life circumstances through a little curve ball into this relationship and they get a second chance a few years later. The characters are perfectly developed with all the incredible feels which had me chuckling, heart wrenched, some yummy steam and all the feels. I love how NIkki wrote a story which placed me right in the mix with the characters living along with them and threw a twist I wasn’t ready for.
Highly Recommend
What starts off a a sweet and hopeful romance between Blakely and Keegan turns into into so much more as he story progresses. The beginning has Keegan and Blakely meeting by chance and indulging in their own escape from reality with a week of passion. The middle has them both reuniting, but with a little bit of hurdles to overcome. The end has the reader yelling at the book and wondering where all the happiness went when more secrets are revealed and the twists and turns turn this sweet hopeful romance and takes in in a totally unexpected direction. You just have to read it to believe it.
I loved this second chance romance with a surprise baby twist. Keegan and Blakely were so cute and perfectly matched. I loved Kolton and Sierra in this story too and Zane was awesome.
I figured out the twist but it’s too great to spoil let’s just say pay attention as you read everything.
I normally love my second chances chock full of angst. Over the last year I’ve come to love every book I’ve read from Ms. Ash. While Blakely and Keegan’s story was the opposite, I loved it all the same. It was refreshing to see two characters have their second chance after having growing so much while apart. This feel good love story left me with a huge smile in my face when I was done.
Fool Me Once is an absolute page turner that I could not put down. I love surprise baby stories and this is definitely a favorite of mine. Keegan and Blakely are everything and more and I couldn’t get enough of them. You need to read this book for Zane, the beach/water adventure, the Mother’s Day surprise and the skateboard alone. This story is full of so much love, laughs and swoon worthy moments! Nikki Ash will continue to be a one click author for me!!!!
Tracey, Life Reads With Friends
A disclaimer, I am a HUGE Nikki Ash fan, and she has done it again!! This book is sweet, sexy, smart and steamy – all my favorites! Blakely and Sierra are sisters who have been orphaned and are struggling to get through high school in their foster home. Enter one spring break trip, new friends and romances, some misfortune, and you get a single mom and her sister raising an adorable spring break souvenir. Keegan did everything he could on spring break to catch Blakeley’s eye and spend some time with her, but fate was not on his side at the end of the week. Three short years later, Blakely and Keegan find one another on their college campus, but not without some intrigue, confusion, and disruptions. Nikki writes a love story like no one else does, and if you are looking for a sizzling first-born standalone with a bigger HEA than you could anticipate, look no further than Fool Me Once!
5 STARS
Ahh! My heart! What a book hangover!! I cannot stop thinking about these characters. I LOVED everything about this book. I devoured every single word from beginning to end. Second chance romance is my top favourite trope in the romance genre so as soon as I read the blurb I knew I would love it and I absolutely did. Blakely and her sister, Sierra had a tough childhood. I loved the friendship and closeness amongst these two sisters. In the beginning Sierra was in a tough place and she completely turns things around to be there for Blakely. Blakely has always been the stronger of the two sisters but when the time comes for Sierra to step up she absolutely did. Blakely is goal oriented and focused. When she stumbles upon Keegan again she is thrown as she never anticipated running into him again. Keegan is a charmer. From the moment they meet on the beach in Florida there was instant attraction and chemistry and the sweet/swoony dialogue between he and Blakely I couldn’t get enough of. When he comes back into Blakely’s life at full speed Keegan is holding some things back and it is tearing him the secrets he has to keep from her. The chemistry between Blakely and Keegan was incredible and explosive. From the first time they meet to when they reconnect again the passion and emotional connection they share is undeniable. Nikki Ash has crafted a beautifully written second chance romance that is a top favourite of 2020. I cannot wait to read more of her books in the future.
This book….oh, this book…..is literally everything!! I love Blakely and Keegan as individual characters, but together they are pure perfection. This story has twists, suspense and an adorable little three year old. The side kick characters of Sierra, Colton and Zane just made the story even more enjoyable. It is steamy and super romantic at the same time. The audiobook was narrated by Kelsey Navarro and Tim Paige who were totally a-ma-zing
Fool Me Once hits all of my favorites- single parent, second-chance, and secret baby. I really liked the characters. And I was kept on the edge of my seat while reading, trying to figure out what was going on.
While this started out kind of slow, it built up quickly, and I very much enjoyed, as I tend to with Nikki Ash’s books.
If you like a good single-parent/second-chance book, this is definitely one that I recommend!
What a sweet book!! Had all the ingredients and feels!! So many twists and turns!! High anxiety towards the end! HEA!!
Wow this book truly was an amazing read. The road that our main characters had to travel was definitely a rocky one. I was rooting for Keegan all the way and I loved all the other characters as well. This is definitely a book I will be rereading again and again.
This story hooked me from the first page.chemistry between the characters was hot. Can’t wait to see what Nikki writes next. I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
I’m going to start off by saying I need another book with this couple! I loved everything about them, their ups, the downs, the heat and the drama. There’s so much I want to say but honestly with the blurb the author made it really hard to not give anything away. So I’ll keep it simple.
This author has written a lot of books but this hands down my favorite out of all of them that I’ve read. It had the perfect mix of everything I look for in a book and even added some things I didn’t know I was missing. I really didn’t want it to end. The suspense aspect was like WOW. The heat…… really hot. These characters, the secondary characters, the banter, it all just added up to being a perfect story that I didn’t want to end. I would totally love to see even an extended epilogue or these guys (HINT HINT). 5 stars #2OCCJD
My very first read by this author and I loved it all! Its unpredictable, entertaining, gooey sweet, and packed with some epicly, seductive steam! Keegan and Blakely are my new favorite couple. I couldn’t resist devouring this read up so quick!
Blakely has been through more than anyone ever should. She’s trying hard to turn things around for the better for her and her sister. One unexpected trip and an unexpected meeting with Keegan leads to so much more than she could have ever expected. Things may have not gone the way they were planned but its turns out fate is taking the lead on this one.
Keegan is mouthwateringly, sexy. His sweetness and loyalty just ooze from him. He’s been a mystery and as time goes on things are revealed that make me love him even more. This man can do no wrong no matter what the circumstances.
I’m swooning so hard over this read! A read that you’ll keep thinking about even after it’s over. So perfect from start to finish!