End Game by Monica Murphy

I really enjoyed Everleigh and Nico’s story. In many ways they couldn’t be more different. Nico is a football star in his last year of school hoping to be drafted. Everleigh has just hit town ready to be away from her small town and off on her own for the first time, but her housing has fallen through and all her stuff has been stolen. Somehow she stumbles into Nico and his roommates who have one room available, and Everleigh moves in with them. It’s clear from the start that Everleigh and Nico both have an attraction to each other and have a hard time resisting the other, but both are very different. Everleigh is not one to date casually, while Nico has no intentions of getting serious with anyone.

I really enjoyed the cast of characters we meet in this story and can’t wait to read more set in this world. Hoping that we get Sienna and Gavin next. The only disappointment was that for a book set in college we get no classroom scenes or scenes of Everleigh at her work. I love college as a setting because the environment lends itself to some rich dynamics where you really get to see the characters interact with others, but here we only see Everleigh interact with her roommates and those connected to them. I’m hoping maybe we get some of those scenes in the next installment.

Monica Murphy is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both a traditionally published author and an independently published author. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance. She is also USA Today bestselling romance author Karen Erickson.

She is a wife and a mother of three who lives with her family in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere, along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through many angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.