Series: Lesson in Love #4
Author: Tara September
Published July 8th 2025 by Plus it Up
Goodreads Synopsis
What happens when Miss Perfect 🎓 meets Mr. Penalty? ⚽️
He’s a rulebreaker with heart. She’s a rule follower with ambition. Can teaming up on a college service project abroad bring these two opponents together? Together, they might just rewrite each other’s playbooks.
I’m wearing many hats my senior year at Thatcher College—Sorority president, Honor Code Review member, Beyond Borders Teaching Chair—and there are just six more months until graduation. All my careful planning is paying off, just like my parents and I knew it would. The one hiccup? Or maybe the solution? Enlisting, or rather coercing, the help of soccer player Diego Delarosa. And when I say player, I mean player. At least that’s what I’ve always thought—cocky, frustrating, infuriating … and possibly the exact kind of chaos I didn’t know I needed. Who knew a routine teaching trip would lead to an adventure of a lifetime?
Soccer is my life. My future. My everything. No backup plan needed—especially not one designed by a bossy, high-achieving blonde with a folder for everything. But when I get caught skipping a class I technically passed, I’m sentenced to two weeks of community service in a small town in Mexico under the watchful eye of Valerie Perkins, a.k.a. Miss Perfect. She’s driven, intimidating, and way out of my league … and I can’t stop thinking about her. This was supposed to be a punishment. Turns out, it might be the best play I’ve ever made.
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Welcome back to Thatcher College, where opposites attract and worlds collide. The Lesson in Love series features interconnected, new adult standalone romances set on a small, private college campus in New England where the good girl gets stuck with the bad boy, and she’s not happy about it. That is, until their chemistry together makes her question everything she thought she knew about him.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via BookSirens. This in no way impacted on my view.
When cocky football student Diego Delarosa is dragged before Thatcher College’s honours committee, he knows he needs a miracle or he will lose his place on the team, and his place at the school. Enter Valerie Perkins, the super organised sorority president, who throws Diego a lifeline. In return for joining her and some others on a community outreach project in Mexico, he can stay at Thatcher. What should’ve been an easy trip done turns out to have been the most important thing Diego has ever done.
I read the previous book a while ago, and can vaguely remember Diego as being a secondary character. I liked the banter and chemistry between Diego and ‘perfect’ Valerie, and though this was a quick paced and quite short story, their romance didn’t seem overly forced or anything like that. A very quick and easy summer read.
When cocky football student Diego Delarosa is dragged before Thatcher College’s honours committee, he knows he needs a miracle or he will lose his place on the team, and his place at the school. Enter Valerie Perkins, the super organised sorority president, who throws Diego a lifeline. In return for joining her and some others on a community outreach project in Mexico, he can stay at Thatcher. What should’ve been an easy trip done turns out to have been the most important thing Diego has ever done.
I read the previous book a while ago, and can vaguely remember Diego as being a secondary character. I liked the banter and chemistry between Diego and ‘perfect’ Valerie, and though this was a quick paced and quite short story, their romance didn’t seem overly forced or anything like that. A very quick and easy summer read.
Dates Read:
July 13, 2025
Rating
3 Stars
