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To Win Her Smile (Players Book 5) Kindle Edition

by Mackenzie Crowne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 54 ratings

Book 5 of 5: Players

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Sometimes love and luck collide . . .

When sultry British Baroness Piper Darrow falls on desperate times, she needs a diversion—and cash. As a talented photographer, she jumps at the chance to travel to the U.S. for a Manhattan Marauders football event. But she gets more than she bargained for when buff quarterback Wyatt Hunter’s errant pass lands . . . in her face. And when it results in Wyatt’s comeback of a lifetime, the superstitious athlete is convinced Piper is his good luck charm . . .

With his sights on the Super Bowl, Wyatt will do anything necessary to keep Piper close. The fact that she’s a feast for the eyes is a bonus. And as they get closer, he discovers that beneath her proper English surface is a sweet, sexy seductress. Soon the notorious playboy finds himself genuinely smitten, and surprisingly open to love—until his powerful family uncovers something about Piper that threatens to shatter his trust. Now he’ll have to decide whether to team up with his fears, or his heart.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M4MRZ92
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lyrical Press (July 18, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 18, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3036 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1601839995

Best Sellers Rank: #1,124,965 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,697 in Sports Romance (Kindle Store)
- #6,657 in Sports Romance (Books)
- #18,780 in Contemporary Women's Fiction

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Hi there. My name is Mackenzie Crowne.

I'm a wife, mother and really young grandmother. Together with my high school sweet heart husband, a rambunctious lab, and a blind cat, I call Phoenix home because the southwest feeds my soul. My love of the romance genre has been a lifelong affair. A bout with breast cancer sharpened my resolve to see my stories shared with others. Today I'm an ten-year survivor living the dream.

My friends call me Mac. I hope you will too.

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PJC

so good!

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022

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Finally .. a book I couldn’t put down. So well written, I didn’t skip ahead to the epilogue because I didn’t want to miss one word of the spell-binding story.

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I am addicted to Mackenzie Crowne!

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2017

Call me India Jones because I’ve got me a whip-o-LUV! Is it bad that I am obsessed with Mackenzie Crowne? Probably. Is it dangerous that I think her characters are real? Wait, they’re not real?

Let me tell you THIS: you want Wyatt Hunter to be real. It’s important that we are on the same page moving forward, otherwise this is going to be a rough ride for you. There ain’t no fiction here, friends. We’re delusional, and he’s real.

Let’s get on to the sweet juju, shall we?

Wyatt Hunter is a quarterback and we are first introduced to him mid-game. The stakes are high! Aww sad panda, he's losing.

He's not losing for long, though, because he smacks a girl across the FACE with his pigskin and the game takes a miraculous turn! Win for the hotty hotties!... Except Wyatt thinks hitting this girl (aka Piper, the photographer) is the reason for the sudden turn of events.

"Introduce me. I need to talk to her."

[He] laughed and drew his attention. "I know that look."

"What look?"

"The look that says you've discovered your newest lucky charm."

Our sweet, foolish, superstitious Wyatt wants Piper to be his WHAT?... For the next 5 months? Well, he had better act fast because she's supposedly leaving for England in a couple days.

I'm not quite sure what he's expecting with this whole "lucky charm" theory; maybe have her dress up as a leprechaun and toss marshmallows at the corner of 2%-Lane? I hazz a pot of gold!

"What are you going to do? Convince Piper to let you break her nose every week for the rest of the season?"

YaaaOK. Good luck, Mr. Quarterback. (*snort* Secretly I'm screaming, "I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!" #shhh)

I can think of one reason why Piper would agree to such a bizarre request: money. She's at an all time low. With both of her parents in royal heaven, she's left to her own devices to try and keep what's important to her. Sure, she has bucketloads of cash in the land she owns, but she is one broke girl! Piper needs money. And BAD.

Good thing Wyatt has money and he is willing to pay $100,000 for this superstition of his. And Piper is willing to accept. Sit on the sidelines. Take some pictures. What's the worst that could happen?

Oooo the drama is about to start, my friends! What chapter are we on? 4? Oh gaaawd this book is so delicious and nutritious.

What is Piper going to think when she finds out there have been other lucky charms before her? You know, when her feelings start getting intermingled in their... err-arrangement?

Now that Wyatt is Piper's "side project," there's no way she can leave the States now. What a mess. But she does eventually go back overseas, right? When is she going to tell Wyatt she's a Baroness? (Never )

Uh oh... looks like a conflict. Let's just pray our Baroness doesn't get herself into a scandal (something she's used to.) Let's be clear: Wyatt ain't a prince either, with his tainted secrets and jagged family history...

This plot is about to take a turn for the worst. Lucky charm? HA. Maybe in a parallel universe where things ACTUALLY go as planned... in this lifetime? Not a chance.

Mackenzie Crowne has done it again. To Win Her Smile is recklessly saucy. What starts as superstition, evolves into desire, and finally need. I am living vicariously through this book right now (I GOT NO SHAME!) and I ENVY Mackenzie Crowne. Mac, write me a book-o-heros, ya? Chapter 1: Wyatt Hunter.

To Win Her Smile is a beautiful juxtaposition: slow and tantalizing, yet volcanic with action. Always moving forward, characters always being developed. Every sentence has a purpose, every chapter takes us on a journey.

Desire, passion, selflessness. Doubt, faith, a viscous primal love. This standalone is PERFECTION.

Taste the rainbow.

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Lynn Brooks/Thoughts of a Blonde

Another fun book in the Players series!

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017

4 1/2 STARS!

A sexy pro baller plus a touch of British royalty equals the sassy ride of a lifetime! We recognize most of the supporting cast from previous books in the Players series, and enjoy jumping into their mix again. Lots of chemistry between characters and family turmoil abounds! Really fun and feisty read!

British Baroness Piper Darrow is undercover in Manhattan taking the opportunity to visit an old friend and take part in a charity event at the same time. She never expects to meet the sexy quarterback of the Manhattan Marauders in quite such a slamming way!

Wyatt Hunter is taken with Piper as soon as he sets eyes on her, and the fact that her misfortune on the sidelines of the game happened to be his turning point to a victory makes her this season's good luck charm! He'll do anything to convince her to stick around and help the team make it to the play-offs! When he offers her a deal she can't refuse considering she's a bit money strapped, will they use the opportunity to grow closer or will secrets tear them apart before they get the chance?

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Jeannie Zelos

Its got the perfect ending. If only that reveal had been less clumsy, less obvious it would have been a full five star read

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2017

To Win Her Smile, Mackenzie Crowne

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre: Romance,

I didn't realise this was book five in a series, but its one of those where each story is a stand alone, and connected by the characters so I was able to keep up OK ;-)

I really enjoyed this read, loved Piper, understood her desire to keep the family estate intact, it sounds a wonderful place and there's so much family history attached.
Times are tough though, and she's facing a fierce financial deadline, so when offered the chance to earn enough to clear it she jumps at the chance. Its using her beloved photography skills too, she's been running the estate as a posh B&B but photography is what really is her preferred way of earning, she loves the magic found in the right picture.

She's working for Wyatt though, as well as his team, and gets to know the group well. Wyatt makes it clear he's wants more than just her there as his lucky charm...more than her taking pics for the charity calendar, and soon they're into a hot and steamy relationship for the five weeks she's there working.

I loved Wyatt too, talented, a great team mate and player yet his father, just starting a bid for Presidency, doesn't see how well he does, can't see he's doing what he loves, he's simply irritated that Wyatt hasn't followed him into politics. He wants him around solely to back up the family image, to boost his own career. He needs squeaky clean family, and as usual his employees are checking into every part of their lives.
Secrets beware! and of course we all have them.

Of course just when everything is going well it isn't...and in a way that brought the story down for me.
I saw this angle coming way, way off, as soon as something happened right back in the early part of the book, but thought it was so obvious and clunky that maybe the author had thrown it in to distract form the real story line. As we got closer to the end more clues came in, almost spoon feeding us to the event.
I still kept hoping that it would be something else, this was too easy, too simplistic and surely Piper as a professional would have taken measures to ensure it couldn't happen.
But no...Sigh...I was right :-( and that brought the story down a star.

I was so angry with Wyatt, but understood his reaction, absolutely loved the way he was made to work for redemption, the way it covered months in the story, not juts one of those sorry, I goofed, effed up and its all happy, happy, happy on the next page.
I do like my characters to have to work hard for forgiveness, love the leads to be feeling really sad, upset, distraught, and Piper was all those.

Its got the perfect ending too. If only that reveal had been less clumsy, less obvious it would have been a full five star read for me.

Stars:Four, a great read, just brought down by a too obvious story line.

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