MELTING INTO YOU

MELTING INTO YOU                                  LAURA TRENTHAM

Alec Grayson returns home to Falcon, Alabama, to rebuild his life after a knee injury ended his NFL career. As the Falcon high school quarterback coach, Alec's love for the game is reignited. Meanwhile, he puts his hard-partying past and the betrayal of the people he trusted most behind him, and adopts a hard demeanor. That is, until a spitfire artist with soulful eyes and a body that haunts his dreams gets under his skin and threatens to crack his armor.

Lilliana Hancock is forced to leave her struggling-artist lifestyle in New York and return to Falcon after her father's unexpected death leaves her a decrepit family mansion. Determined to use her skills to turn the home into a successful bed and breakfast, Lilliana is stopped at every turn by the town contractor, who happens to be Alec, the gorgeous and arrogant jock to whom she lost her virginity in college. Except Alec doesn't remember, which infuriates her. Too bad she can't forget the way his body felt against hers or how his heated gaze follows her...

Will they be able to put their pasts behind them for a future together?

HUBBY'S REVIEW:

This is the third book in the series and like the other two it takes places in Falcon Alabama. Lilliana Hancock, is home taking over the Hancock house that her father left her after his passing. She is trying to turn it into a bed & breakfast but with funds being low she can only do repairs and upgrades little by little. Her income is still her art and by doing work and then shipping them back to New York. Alec Grayson, was a football star at the University of Alabama and then a NFL quarterback until a hit blew out his knee and put him on the sideline permanently. He now owns his own construction company and works as the county building inspector, he is also the quarterbacks coach for the high school football team. He also has a huge chip on his shoulder that makes him live alone. Lilliana is attracted to him and has been since her freshman year at Alabama and he was the star quarterback and older. After a big game and at a frat party she gives herself to him but he tells her to grab her cloths and leave. To make matters worse now after all of these years later he does not even remember her or their brief time together. But she has gotten past him and actually thanks him in her mind because the next year she left Alabama, to follow her dream and went to New York art school, and lived there until her father gave her the house. As the two of the sort out relationship he is also working on trying to help the quarterback of the team with his home life. His twin brother has gotten into dealing drugs and running with a gang and now it is effecting his brother who is looking at scholarships, and being able to get out of Falcon. Lilliana ends up helping because of their relationship and because Alec is so self-absorbed she almost gets herself into major trouble until he realizes that he needs to get out of himself and take a chance if he wants to have a life. But will she take him back? This is another good story in the series and you don’t need to read the other books to be caught up. A good book. I got this book from netgalley.  I give this 4 stars.