Small towns were made for second chances…even if it’s your best friend’s sister.
Skylar Rae
I’m getting by just fine on my own when the boy who stole my heart and ran away twelve years ago shows up in town again. He’s a big shot baseball player now, needing my help to rehab his knee. If he’d just lay off the flirting and the dimples he throws with each grin, I might be able to do my job. Good … do my job. Good thing I’m not dumb enough to fall for him a second time.
Max
I promised my best friend I would never make a move on his little sister. I kept that promise—if you don’t count that one kiss senior year—but now that we’re adults and I’m moving back home, all bets are off. Skylar Rae isn’t the same person I knew twelve years ago and neither am I. It’ll take a lot more healing than I expected to see if she and I can cross that line again.
Lines We Cross is a sweet small-town romantic comedy that can be read as a standalone in the Nickel Bay Brothers series.
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Really enjoyed reading this book. Great story about overcoming the obstacles life throws in the way. Skylar (Rae) lost her brother to cancer and Max has a life changing injury as a professional baseball player. These are both wonderfully written characters.
I received a free copy of this book and this is my voluntary, honest review.
This sweet romance was such a good read! It maintains a light feel while addressing underlying tragedy and insecurities.
The world-building is excellent, as always in Marika’s books. I can picture this small town, and want to be there for the Bigfoot festival!
The characters are very well-developed. I want to be friends with all of them. I love second-chance, small-town characters. In this book, everyone is coming home. Looking for their roots. Planning to make their way where their heart always was. I wouldn’t mind picking up a Nickel Bay brother of my own! 😉
Skylar Rae is a strong woman, dealing with her emotions, but always open to forgiveness.
Max takes a minute to be confused, then turns into that alpha swoony hero we all want.
Oh. The grand gesture. It’s one for the history books. <3
If you like small-town, second-chance romance with all the feels, this book is totally for you!!
An emotion filled romance read
Skylar Rae, a physical therapist, is scheduled to help Max, third baseman for a professional baseball team, rehabilitate his knee after surgery. As the story progresses buttons are pushed, the past is rehashed, and forgiveness is their only way forward. Marika ray’s Lines We Cross is an emotion filled romance read. In this book she added some sass similar to her Beach Squad series but poured on the sweet in this one.
I received a free copy of the book from the author. I had the opportunity to review or not.
Wow loved this start to a new series from Marika Ray. If you love the genre of a second chance romance and in a small town, this one is for you. I am use to her rom com’s and this one was perfect.
Max and Skylar were perfect for one another in this story. I can’t wait for the next one in this series of the Nickel Bay Brothers!!!
I just loved this story! It was cute and sweet, sad but funny. I love small town and I love the direction this series is going. I cried both happy and sad tears, with a beautiful first I love you scene. It was so heartwarming. Part of me wishes it was longer, but I think the length suited the overall story.
This is a great story of love, loss, attraction and getting your happy ever after, Skylar has never left Town but thee are plenty of reasons why she didn’t unlike Max who skipped out as soon as he could when he graduated and right after kissing Skylar. Max is back and it’s time for everyone to face what happened not just with Max leaving, but also what happened to Emerson Skylars brother. There are plenty of emotions in this one and is needed especially for Skylar, trust to be built and truths to be realised, and plenty of new friends to be made that leave you eager to see who’s book is next!!!
The Nickle Heads are back!
This book is the best way to start a brand new series.
Small town, second chance romance with a ton of emotion.
My heart hurt and ached for Skylar throughout.
Marika Ray knows how to pull at your heartstrings in a way that keeps you reading and feeling the raw emotion while at the same time smiling.
Max and Rae’s story is wonderful and I cannot wait to read the rest of the Nickle Brother’s series!
Such a beautiful story of love, loss and life. The characters were great. Can’t wait to read more about this group of friends.
“I was only a boy when I left at eighteen, but I was coming home a man. And a broken one at that.” – Max Duke
Coming home shouldn’t be bittersweet, but it was for Max; perhaps, even, more bitter than sweet. At the top of his game, in the prime of his life, Max was brought low by a freak accident during a baseball game. Determined to undergo rehab and get back into the game, Max returns to Nickel Bay for therapy… But he wonders…”What kind of life could I have without baseball?” – Max
“I’d give him all the concern he’d shown my family the last ten years. In other words: zero.” – Skylar Rae Mulholland
Skylar Rae was a consummate professional; she took pride in being considered one of the best in her chosen field of sports rehabilitation therapy. But her world stuttered to a stop when she saw “Max Duke” on her schedule. Max, the boy she’d had such a crush on; Max, her big brother’s best friend…. Max, who had gifted her with a single kiss… then walked out of her life.
“She was the exact kind of woman I didn’t need right now. I needed someone to kiss my forehead and grab me a drink. Maybe put a pillow under my knee and be sweet while I was in pain.” – Max
But somehow, Max just can’t get Skylar out of his head. She consumes his thoughts waking and sleeping. Desperate to make a personal connection, Max resorts to a sneaky trick…
“Maybe this injury wasn’t the end of my life. Maybe it was the beginning of my new one.” – Max
Will Max hit a home run with Skylar, or will he strike out with the only woman to ever hold his heart?
This sweet second chance, brother’s best friend, small town romance has it all. Not only is it the first in a series but hit me right in the heart and I couldn’t put it down. I just had to keep reading to get to know all the characters.
Rae is grieving and coping by working hard and putting up a brave face. When her childhood crush suddenly is back in her life she has a hard time trusting him.
Max is the best book boyfriend I have met in a while. He’s like a clueless knight in shining armor and the sweetest guy imaginable.
The book left me shedding a few happy tears,
I’m excited and eagerly waiting for more.
I loved this story; it was very touching. Skylar and Max have been holding in their feelings because of her brother being Max’s best friend, so Max left when he was 18. Her brother, Emerson, died and Max is back. Can they get over the death of Emerson and share their love with each other? This story brings every emotion to the surface while reading, it is amazing. It is well written and developed.
I highly recommend it and I can’t wait for the other Nickel Heads stories.
Lines We Cross is just another perfect example of why Marika Ray is one of my go-to authors when I need to put a smile on my face. This book had me feeling all kinds of emotions, from laughing at the banter to fight back tears from the emotions the characters went through. Max and Skylar Rae might be one of my favorite couples of Marika Ray yet. I am loving this new series and can not wait to see what else Marika Ray has in store for us in the small town of Nickel Bay.