{"id":58383,"date":"2021-03-30T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=58383"},"modified":"2021-03-29T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:53:03","slug":"new-release-arc-review-hard-to-lose-play-hard-4-by-k-bromberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=58383","title":{"rendered":"New Release & ARC Review: Hard to Lose (Play Hard, #4) by K. Bromberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hard to Lose<\/strong>
\n(Play Hard, #4)<\/h4>\n

by K. Bromberg<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Released – 30 March 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Available Now!<\/strong>
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Audiobook coming soon – Narrated by Jason Clarke & Savannah Peachwood<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I know finding and signing a military vet to the agency is a long shot–but it\u2019ll be good press just letting him try out. That\u2019s what I tell my family, rather than admit I can\u2019t get the letter he wrote us five years ago out of my head.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what I tell the bartender in his hometown is a lie. I know veterans protect each other. So I pretend to be a graduate student.<\/p>\n

Sparks. Flame. Fire. I accidentally got in too deep.<\/i><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t expect to develop feelings for Gunner Camden.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no way I can admit to my lies now, not without destroying what we share. So I\u2019ll keep faking it.<\/p>\n

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There are two versions of me: before, and after deployment.<\/p>\n

Back then I was a screwup kid. I\u2019d lie, cheat, and steal my way out of everything. My only love was baseball.<\/p>\n

After I started fighting, I found out there had been another path for me. One that involved my dream. But by then I had seen too much.<\/p>\n

The old me was dead, so I put my dreams to rest, too.<\/i><\/p>\n

Then Chase Kinkade walks into my bar and reminds me that life is meant to live. No regrets.<\/i><\/p>\n

Fresh. Happy. Hopeful. I can start to see a new dream, with her.<\/i><\/p>\n

But sometimes things are too good to be true\u2026 and dishonesty is the one thing I can\u2019t forgive.<\/p>\n

Find\u00a0Hard to Lose<\/em>\u00a0on GOODREADS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Review<\/strong><\/h4>\n

4.5 \u201cliving in the moment\u201d stars!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hard to Lose<\/i> is wonderful addition to the Play Hard<\/i><\/a> series by K. Bromberg. I love the Kincade family and was so excited to get my hands on Chase\u2019s story and it did not disappoint. It\u2019s a sweet, heartbreaking military romance that really pulls on your heartstrings.<\/p>\n

Chase is the youngest Kincade sister working for the family company, Kincade Sports Management. She puts her all into her job and isn\u2019t looking for love despite the fact that all of her sisters have found it and are happy. When a letter is delivered to her desk that was lost in the mail for 5 years from a pitcher they had their eye on, she feels a connection to it. She wants to know what happened to Ryan Camden to make him reject their offer and she is determined to find out.<\/p>\n

Chase arrives at Destiny Falls to find Ryan but she finds Gunner instead. A bartender at the FU-Bar, he is just want she needs to let loose while on a mission to find the missing pitcher. She\u2019ll enjoy his company while she looks for Ryan; however, she never could have guessed that the guy she starts to fall for is actually the guy she has been looking for all along.<\/p>\n

Ryan Camden, aka Gunner, has seen so much overseas in the military and he is just trying to heal from the nightmares he had to experience.\u00a0He is such a great guy and a total sweetheart. He had dreams of his own but he let them go and now is putting everything into the bar he built for his fallen comrades and the center he created for kids who have lost a parent in combat. He has scars on the inside and scars on the outside but they make him who he is.<\/p>\n

She is confident and sassy and has a great sense of humor. She holds her own and knows what she wants. She has her own scares and was changed when her mother passed away and I loved her strength. She wasn\u2019t expecting to fall for Gunner but sometimes \u201dthe best relationships are the ones you never saw coming.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I loved watching Gunner and Chase\u2019s relationship grow. They are all flirty and try to be casual but the more time they spend together, the more the walls they\u2019ve built up around their hearts start tumbling down. I loved that they were able to get under each other\u2019s skin and into their hearts and really change each other. They realize what real love is and what they have been missing all along. The feels are real and I loved how they brought the best out of each other.<\/p>\n

Love isn\u2019t something you set out to achieve. It\u2019s something that happens unexpectedly.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is all sunshine and rainbows when they are together but there is a big secret that builds the more time goes on. It\u2019s one that can ruin everything they have built. As they fall harder, I found myself dreading the inevitable blow up. I knew it was coming and when it does, it\u2019s gut wrenching. My heart broke because I understood both sides as well as how it got to be as big as it did.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the drama isn\u2019t drawn out and I loved when they finally see a future together. We get two epilogues and I loved how everything wraps up so well.<\/p>\n

*ARC generously provided by the author and Valentine PR & Literary\u00a0<\/em>Management*<\/i><\/p>\n

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Play Hard<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Hard to Handle (#1)\u00a0<\/strong>– (Dekker & Hunter)
\nBuy: Amazon<\/a> \u00a0| \u00a0Paperback<\/a> | \u00a0Audiobook<\/a><\/p>\n

Hard to Hold (#2)\u00a0<\/strong>– (Lennox & Rush)
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Hard to Score (#3) <\/strong>– (Brexton & Drew)
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Hard to Lose (#4) <\/strong>– (Chase & Gunner)
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Hard to Love (#5) <\/strong>– (Stevie & Finn)
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About the Author<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/em>New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary romance novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines and damaged heroes who we love to hate but can’t help to love.<\/p>\n

A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow and her mind scattered in too many different directions.<\/p>\n

Since publishing her first book on a whim in 2013, Kristy has sold over one and a half million copies of her books across eighteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over thirty times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven<\/a>, Fueled<\/a>,<\/em> and Crashed<\/a>)<\/em> is currently being adapted for film by the streaming platform, Passionflix, with the first movie (Driven) out now.<\/p>\n

With her imagination always in overdrive, she is currently scheming, plotting, and swooning over her latest hero. You can find out more about him or chat with Kristy on any of her social media accounts. The easiest way to stay up to date on new releases and upcoming novels is to sign up for her NEWSLETTER<\/a> or follow her on BOOKBUB<\/a>.
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Text Kbromberg to 77948 to stay up to date on all things Driven movies and new releases<\/p>\n

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