Play to Win

Author: Jodie Slaughter
Title: Play to Win
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 07/11/2023

Read Dates: 05/07/2023- 05/11/2023
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

I love a good second-chance romance and this one did not disappoint! Miri and Leo were childhood friends-to-lovers who got married at 18 and became estranged after a few years. An unexpected windfall has Miri reaching out to Leo to finally resolve their unfinished business, and provides Leo with the kick he needs to recognize and correct his mistakes.

Personally, I loved that their marriage struggled. As someone who eloped with my best friend at 18 I can appreciate the honesty in this story that, no matter how much love is there, a successful relationship takes work.

What I loved in this book:
✔️ Second-chance romance
✔️ Childhood friends-to-lovers
✔️ Small town setting
✔️ LGBTQ+ representation

Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win , is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes a second chance at love.

Miriam Butler’s life is going nowhere in the slowest, most excruciating way possible. Stuck in the same barely-paying job she’s had since she was sixteen and spending every night sleeping in the spare twin bed in her mother’s house, her existence might be hilarious if it wasn’t so bleak. One trip to her favorite corner store upends everything when she finds herself the winner of a Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Unfortunately, not even life-altering roses come without their painful thorns. Hers just so happen to be in the form of an estranged husband who has the right to claim his share of her money.

It’s been eight years since Leo Vaughn has had a conversation with his wife. When she calls out of the blue, practically begging him to come back to Greenbelt, the last thing he expects her to tell him when he gets there is that she’s come into a whole heap of money. She offers him a life-changing proposition of his own. Take a lump sum, finally sign the divorce papers, and be done with her for good. Only, a forever without her is the last thing Leo wants. So he gives a proposition of his own. One that won’t cost her nearly as many millions, but will buy him the time to do the one thing he’s been hungry to do since he left -- win her back.