Ten minutes ago, I was just an American student studying abroad in Spain. But now? Now I’m a professional soccer player’s good luck charm…RHYSMy recovery from a football injury is destroying my career—until one night with a beautiful American and a few terrible pick-up lines changes everything. With Laura by my side, I play smarter, run faster, and fight harder than I ever have on the pitch. … I ever have on the pitch. She’s just the muse I need to turn my football career around.
LAURA
My semester abroad in Madrid is the fresh start I need. I’ve got plans to ditch bad habits and worse boyfriends. Then a one night stand with a super hot British footballer leads to an A-list entanglement I wasn’t looking for.
But I refuse to be just arm candy for Rhys. I’m trying to shake off the superficial mindset I’ve always had. Still, he won’t let me go without a fight. He’s just as lethal in bed as he is on the field. And now he’s pulling out all the stops, trying to convince me he wants more than just a good luck charm.
This sexy footballer plays dirty…
LESSONS IN LETTING GO is a STANDALONE romance in the STUDY ABROAD series. The books in this series are complete standalones with interconnected characters, and can be read in any order.
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Very enjoyable read, great story, interesting characters and guaranteed HEA.
For the Love of Football! I love this book!
If you like sports, romance, and comedy this book is for you! Jessica has a great writing style that makes you fall in love with Rhys and Laura, with Spain and Football (soccer). She also has a way making you laugh out loud and not wanting the story to end. Thank you Jessica Peterson you did it again!
Letting go is probably the most difficult thing in the world. We all cling to the world we know or the world we want to know. However, letting go can also give you freedom and give you a calm you’ve never known before. Just like a coin though it has two sides. How tight are you gripping that coin? What has you holding on so tight? On the other hand what brought you to where you are at this present moment? Why do we not let others see the real us? What are we afraid of? How far are you willingly to go to keep up the mirage of who you are? What are you afraid of? Why are we such people pleasers? On the other side of this why can’t we see our true potential? At what point do you finally decide to live for you and realize if you’re not happy how can you truly make someone else happy?
Yes, these are just some of the questions I came up with while reading this book.
Lauren, is a student, who is pretty, intelligent, not poor but not super rich. She’s just recently met a superstar by chance. She has her own goals in life she wants to accomplish and she is still trying to find herself. She is a people pleaser and is now trying to live life on her own terms….until….
Rhys, superstar soccer player, trying to make his comeback after an injury. He’s also trying to live down a past by building up his present at almost any cost. Remember the famous saying, “Image is Everything”. He is the poster boy for that saying. Even though he doesn’t intentionally try to impose this on other people or purposely use them (even though he sort of does) he maneuvers or rather manipulates things, people to his own advantage….until…
This is the story of yin and yang until…
Until one day you need to have your own happiness, even if it breaks your heart.
There’s another famous saying, “You don’t realize what you have until you lose it”.
I don’t do spoilers. It’s not fair to the author. You need to read the story for your own enjoyment. What I will say is this is part of the Study Abroad or Lessons series. If you’ve read the other books you’ll be happy to know you’ll be reacquainted with the other characters in the series. If not it won’t inhibit your enjoyment of this book.
I have to be truthful at times these characters frustrated me. However, isn’t that what happens in real life with all of us? Of course there’s those moments when you are enthralled by these two. The push and pull of this book and the truth of this story is what really drew me in.
It’s a story that really made me think and put things in perspective. That’s always a good thing!
It took me a minute to get into this book. I didn’t like either of the main characters at first. The more I read, the more I kind of understood where they were coming from.
Rhys is under an enormous amount of pressure to succeed. Granted he puts most of that pressure on himself but it’s there none the less.
Laura feels the need to be perfect. She carries what she perceives as other people’s expectations on her shoulders.
When Laura goes to Spain for a semester, she makes a bucket list of things she wants to do for her. The first night in Spain she meets Rhys and her bucket list flies out the window.
It was a very long and winding road but they eventually find their happy ever after by learning to let go of all of it and live in the moment.
Each book gets better. Laura did have a few moments where I didn’t agree with her actions, but that’s to be expected. Rhys and Laura both had a lot of issues to work through. They came out stronger in the end. My favorite of the series so far.
Such a great story between Rhys and Laura. Loved their chemistry and the storyline was unique and original. Great book!