Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Swoon List: The Love List series by Ellie Hall

 Best friends in a private school their senior year Declan & Maggie had a fun time with pranks. They decided early on not to talk about their pasts. Both had skeletons in their closets they didn't want anyone knowing about. Maggie grew up a rich kid who was a child star on a tv show. Yet her parents used her for the money she provided them. She didn't get any of it. They took the money & created a media company that made money by setting people up & making them rich. They even set their own daughter up & posted the results. I was horrified reading what they did to her for a surprise birthday party. They didn't deserve her. The fact that she turned out so good is from the various nannies she had. That and she had found God. 


Declan is from Ireland. He loves pulling pranks and making people laugh. Declan had a rough life! He never knew his father. His mother died when he was 16. He often times went to bed hungry. He ran with other street kids. He and his friends were known for stealing & other crimes. That all changed when he got to know his Aunt Maureen. She took him in & taught him about God. Taught him how to be a gentleman. Got him into MMA somewhere he could channel his anger at what his past was. Then she brought him to America and showed him football. He was hooked. And he was very good at it. He was so good he got picked up by an NFL team. I purposely haven't told you all his past because it would ruin the story.


After high school these two kept in touch. It got harder the more famous h.e he'd and to see each other. They always texted though. That never stopped. Declan would invite her to stuff and then never show up eventually. If anyone understood that it was Maggie. Declan just never knew it. As with all football games they always had to prank the new guys. One  such prank goes horribly wrong. And it involved the 4 star players of the team. To top it off there were a lot of people from the team management/ownership that were present. There was no way this wasn't going to have serious consequences! But a reform school on an island abroad? 


Maggie kept finding herself with bad press. Then she'd have to move & start over. Personally I think that was a bit much until the fountain incident. And when you learn how horrible her family is. She quit her job as Cinderella at a theme park & has no idea what to do next. When a friend mentions that her cousin needs help at a reform school. You see where this is going right? Yep, she gets assigned to her best friend. Who not knowing it's her gets shot by water guns when she goes to meet her "student". On top of that there are some serious rules they both have to follow or more than their jobs will be lost. Declan teammates are not allowed to do anything with a woman while there or they will all be kicked off the team. Unless the guys get married. Farthest thing on those playboys minds. Naturally Declan tries to get Maggie to just let him skate through everything. However, if Maggie can't get through a month with Declan as a best friend she has no job to return to.

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