Blog Tour and Review: The One for Me by Corinne Michaels

 

An all new and endearing friends-to-lovers story…

The One for Me by New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels is now live!

Devney Maxwell has been my best friend since we were six years old, but she has no idea I'm in love with her.


Even when I'm on the road playing professional baseball, she's my home--the only one I've ever known. But when I return to Sugarloaf to care for the family farm, I discover she's trying to talk herself into a life with the wrong man ... and I become desperate.

It only takes a single, perfect kiss to change everything.

I have six months to get it right with Devney--to convince her to leave this town and turn that kiss into forever.

I aim to do just that as I spend my days coaching her nephew's baseball team, fixing up the farm, and loving her with all I have. Finally, it seems like our relationship is secure and we'll find a way to make it work.

Then tragedy strikes ... changing her life forever. She's needed here more than ever, but as for me--there's no way I can stay.

I know she's the one for me, but I might have to let her go ...

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Excerpt:

“Don’t play that crap with me, Sean Arrowood. I know you better. You want the wife and kids. You always have. The issue that you have is that you’re stupid.”

“Stupid?”

She nods. “Yup. S-T-U-P-I-D. And dumb.”

“They mean the same thing.”

“It required the extra punctuation at the end.”

God, I love the side of her that is smart-mouthed, fearless, and relaxed. She’s only this way with me. Or at least, that’s what I’d like to think.

The last ten years have been hard on our friendship. We both went off to college, I had baseball and she was studying. We’d see each other on breaks, but after the accident that changed the trajectory of my life, I stayed in Maine, and we rarely saw each other.

However, when I had a series in New York, Devney came. If I was in Philly, she would find a way to meet me, and I flew her down to Tampa a few times.

Now, though, I’ll be around her so much more, and I know these feelings aren’t going to go away, they’ll get stronger.

Yeah, I guess I really am stupid.

“Well, I may be stupid, but at least I’m not settling.”

She sits up, slapping her hand on the couch cushion. “Settling?”

“Yeah. You may love Oliver, but he doesn’t make you crazy.”

Devney shifts back. “You’re making me crazy right now.”

“Good.”

“You’re infuriating!”

I shrug. “You love me.”

“It helps that you’re hot.” Devney quickly covers her hand over her mouth. “I did not mean it that like that.”

I grin and lean toward her. “You think I’m hot?”

“I think you’re mediocre. God knows your harem of . . . whatever you call them . . . think you are.”

For so long I’ve fought against telling her anything about how I feel. How those women are faceless and mean nothing to me. It’s always her. Always a brunette who I seek out, hoping to find just a piece of something like her that I can cling to, but I never say it.

Then I wonder, maybe this is the perfect time. Oliver is going to propose. Oliver will marry her, and I won’t have a god damn thing to say about it because I will have never told her.

Plus, she’s drunk.

Maybe she won’t remember it.

My Thoughts and Review:

Friends-to-lovers, while being an excellent romance trope is not usually one of my favorites. I am usually more fond of second chance or enemies-to-lovers. Sean and Devney's story may have changed my mind though.

Sean and Devney have been friends since they were little kids. No matter what other people thought they always had each other's back. They were the kind of friends where she learned to love baseball because it meant so much to him, and he would dump a girlfriend because Devney didn't like her. Everyone around them knew they were in love long before Sean and Devney realized it.

These two have several things to overcome to make their relationship work. Secrets to expose, and trauma to survive.

"When you find the one for you, it makes things that were impossible suddenly seem obtainable." Connor Arrowood.

As Connor tells Sean, the right one make the impossible seem possible. Especially once you ask the right question. Which Sean figures out while talking to Jacob later in the book.

This book will have you laughing, and crying. It takes you through an array of emotions. There were some things I predicted, but others that caught me completely off guard. Once again an Arrowood brother stole my heart, I am anxious for Jacob's book, but will be sad to see the series end.