A charming new contemporary romance set in Silverlake, Texas, where love throws old rivals a curveball. . . . Andrew “Ace” Braddock is a player in every sense of the word. The center fielder for the Austin Lone Stars, he’s also been at the center of numerous sports scandals involving beer, bars, and baseball bunnies. But when he takes the fall for a teammate, Ace wakes up in the hospital, injured … hospital, injured and in serious trouble. He’s sent to lie low and recover at his family ranch in Silverlake, Texas, where he’s saddled with his worst nightmare: his high school nemesis—a beautiful nurse who refuses to play doctor with him.
Mia Adams has no time to fool around. The daughter of Silverlake’s high school baseball coach has three jobs and a pile of debt left behind by her missing ex. The very last thing she wants is to spend her time indulging hometown hero Easy Ace Braddock. If she didn’t need the money, she’d have nothing to do with the guy from her past who stole her dad’s time, attention, and love away from her before leaving for the major leagues.
As Mia does her best to corral the irrepressible Ace, keep a sense of humor, and fight her unwelcome attraction to him, he charms, sidesteps, and outmaneuvers her. Will the onetime enemies find love at home base, right in the town where they grew up?
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What did a girl do about a problem like Ace Braddock? Kiss him or kill him?
Hometown Hero was a cute read. If you enjoy small town enemies to lovers romance, where the characters don’t have a real long build from frenemies to lovers, then you may like this one. Ace & Mia have history as they grew up in the same small town, and Mia’s dad gave more attention to Ace, than he ever gave Mia. That tension and Ace’s habit of getting into trouble are the main focus of this story. While this read was entertaining, I will say that it doesn’t really dive deep enough in either characters life to really have you invest. It’s a very surface level romance, so if you like that, then you will enjoy this read. While I think this is listed as standalone, I did feel like I was playing catch up for most of the book. The dynamics between Ace and his family, and just the town and established couples being mentioned. I think that reading this series in order would definitely benefit the reading experience.
All in all this was a good read. If you like small town romance, with an enemies to lovers/forced proximity storyline then you will enjoy this!
*Side note – The heat level of this book is definitely low. The tension is there, but it’s fade to black.
Baseball and cowboys – now that’s a hard to beat combination and when you add in an enemies to lovers, forced proximity, small town romance, it’s a story full of all my favorites. This one doesn’t really go into a lot of depth, but sometimes that’s just right for a fun bit of escapism, and in the current times, we could all use a bit of that. This is the third in a series, and while it’s considered a standalone, there were a few things that I felt like would have been clearer had I read the first two books. It was mostly just background information, and that didn’t take anything away from this couple, just something worth mentioning. I’d also note that this is a pretty clean romance overall. Intimacies are fade out, so any steamy fun will be left up to the readers’ imagination. Again, that’s not something that influences me either way, but for those who look for one or the other, this one leaves the steamy scenes to the imagination. The book is well written and entertaining, and it certainly held my interest, so I’d say if you’re looking for a fun, clean romance, this one fills the bill.
Great chemistry between the hero and heroine!
This is the third book in this amazing series by Liza Kendall. This book is Andrew “Ace” Braddock & Mia Adams story. It has all the feels, you will definitely laugh, cry. It was too funny with Ace driving the tractor to the local bar. I love the Braddock family & all the other characters (hoping they get their own books too!!). This family experienced such tragedy, their parents were killed by a drunk driver leaving Declan to raise his younger siblings. Each book in the series so far shows how each of the featured siblings have dealt with the loss & how they started healing as well with the help of the heroines in the books. So Ace is a professional baseball player that finally comes home again after being injured in a car accident that wasn’t his fault but took the blame for. Mia is the nurse hired to take care of him & keep him out of trouble. Mia’s ex husband left her & left her with a pile of debt which is why she took the job as her & Ace have a past. You will love their journey of healing & forgiving the past to get their HEA as well as the Braddock family coming back together. I highly recommend this book & series!!
Sweet, funny and full of delicious drama…
Silverlake Ranch has become one of my favourite spots to visit lately! The Braddock family suffered a huge family tragedy and, years later, each sibling still struggled. The series takes us through their innermost thoughts to get to heart of their troubles, their pain and their hopes. Their stories are full of off-beat characters, wheelbarrows full of emotion and sweet, sweet love…
This time out Ace was forced to come home after one too many scandals. He was a celebrity and seemed spoiled and over-cocky but watching his transformation made my heart truly happy. With Mia more than happy to keep him on the straight and narrow, he (almost) went willingly… Mia was struggling too and hid a lot of her pain behind lots and lots of work. Ace coming back was going to give her the opportunity to earn some money (sober companion, who knew?) and also deal with some long-held issues of her own.
Ace’s family, Mia’s father and ex, the siblings’ need (and want) to reconcile… Everyone got a turn either helping or hindering and above all watching (with popcorn like I did) the, at turns, hilarious and tear-filled moments. Each character has their own unique personality and it shone through the pages once again.
I’m still on high alert for Deck’s story and Lila is sure to meet someone she deserves. I can’t wait to find out!
*Reviewed for 1-Click Addict Support Group
**Thank you to NetGalley
Major league baseball player Ace Braddock took the blame for an accident and went back home to recuperate from the injury and lay low from the news headlines. Of all people to help nurse him it happened to be the daughter of the man he claims is the reason for his success.
Mia reluctantly takes the job to help Ace even though she loathes him and blames him for taking her father away from her growing up. Sparks fly and rangers flare as one mishap after another ensues.
I loved this book! One minute I was laughing and another was crying!
Definitely recommend!
I have been really enjoying the Silverlake Ranch series by Liza Kendall. The first two books in this series, Walk Me Home and Home With You are excellent reads. Number three, Hometown Hero continues in this same vein. This enemies to lovers story has been fun to read. Austin Lone Stars baseball star Ace Braddock is home recuperating from a broken ankle sustained in a car accident. He has been assigned a “minder” to keep him on the straight and narrow because it was rumored that alcohol was involved in the accident. Mia Adams, daughter of Ace’s youth baseball coach and mentor, is hired to keep Ace out of trouble. These two have histories that greatly affect their feelings for each other as well as emotional issues. The plot and storyline is well done. This book is a great addition to the series.
So we are up to book 3 of the Silverlake Ranch series by Liza Kendall. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been enjoying this family. There is just something about families that make you get dragged into their issues. It’s always complicated and never what it seems.
How could you not enjoy that? It makes for a good story.
Up this time it’s Ace’s story. He’s as you can tell the home-town hero. Unfortunately, he’s done something stupid. He allowed himself to be a fall guy. You might think that makes him a good guy but I’m not sure about that.
As we’ve seen from the past books this family really has trouble being a family since their parents passing. They don’t really talk or even pay attention to each other. Which of course makes for a good book but not so much for a happy family. There is many a time throughout the series that I wanted to yell at them to stop and listen. I will admit what I do love is how for each book they grow closer and closer.
This is a wonderful reason to read the series in order.
I really like Ace but he was a little blind to what was going on around him. He was also racked with guilt about his parents that is so sad that he took all on. I will admit that most around him knew the true Ace but that wasn’t so for Mia.
I felt at times that Mia acted like a child about the way her father felt about Ace. It wasn’t really his fault he was a kid when most of her feelings happened. Plus his life was shit too. I did feel that for her it was easier to blame Ace then face reality and the fact she got crappy parents.
After spending part of the book treating Ace badly she did figure a few realities out and so did Ace. He saw how she felt about how her father acted and stood for her.
By the end of this book, these two got their acts together and grew as a couple. I really did enjoy the way the story moved and ended. Still more books to come of this series at least I hope so. We aren’t done with this family yet.
Andrew “Ace” Braddock plays center field for the Austin Lone Stars and is known just as well for his playing off the field as he is for his playing on the field. When Ace decides to secretly take the fall for one of his fellow players he finds himself with a broken ankle and in the middle of a scandal. Being forced to lay low, Ace heads back to his family’s ranch in Silverlake, Texas, completely not ready to face all of the demons waiting for him there.
The last person Mia Adams wants to see or deal with is Ace Braddock. It’s bad enough that he stole all of her dad’s time when they were growing up since her dad was the high school baseball coach but Mia needs the money and the Lone Stars’ have offered her a whole lot to babysit Ace.
The more time Mia and Ace spend together, the more they both realize that there is a lot more to the other than ever thought. Ace may really test Mia’s patience, but deep down she realizes that he is a good guy. When Mia and Ace finally give in to their feelings, it looks like they will both get their happy ending but of course they have to take a slight detour first but in the end they finally find their forever.
Overall this was a sweet and enjoyable story. I have never read this author before and did enjoy her writing. I really liked Ace. He was a smart aleck, but a great guy. I loved the fun things he did. I enjoyed Mia too. I had a hard time wrapping my head around some of her money issues but she was a really hard worker and a very caring person.