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Playing for Keeps: A Cricket Creek Novel Kindle Edition

by LuAnn McLane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
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Olivia Lawson is peeved when ex-ace pitcher turned soap opera star Noah Falcon roars back into Cricket Creek, Kentucky, after all these years, to take the lead opposite her in the community theater's summer play. Noah's beloved hometown is having major financial woes and needs his status to turn this small-town play into a big-time hit. But Noah has bigger plans for this small town. And this time he's determined to show Olivia he's not just playing around-he's playing for keeps.
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  1. Book 1 of 11
    Cricket Creek Novel
  2. Print length
    299 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  5. Publisher
    Berkley
  6. Publication date
    March 1, 2011
  7. Reading age
    18 years and up
  8. File size
    1954 KB
  9. Page Flip
    Enabled
  10. Word Wise
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  11. Enhanced typesetting
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

McLane's trademark devilish dialogue is in fine form for this series launch set in a fictional Kentucky town. Recently dumped by his hit soap opera, former Major League baseball player Noah Falcon has returned home for a bit of R&R before braving the wider world again. Olivia Lawson, a schoolmarm with a voice "like Southern Comfort sliding over cracked ice," will never let Noah forget that he snubbed her back when she was Cricket Creek High School's resident bookworm, though he's quick to admire the ways she's blossomed since then. In a narrative long on "no place like home" parables, the erotic frisson that occurs when the former classmates star together in a local play prevents the story from becoming clichéd, and a lavish finale brings the fairy tale romance to a perfect conclusion. (Mar.)
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About the Author

LuAnn McLane lives in Florence, Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. When she takes breaks from writing, she enjoys long walks with her husband, watching chick flicks with her daughter, and trying to keep up with her three active sons.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004H4XDAY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (March 1, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1954 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 ‏ : ‎ 299 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 93 ratings

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LuAnn McLane

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LuAnn McLane writes contemporary romance with a filled with heart and laughter. Her books have appeared on best selling lists including USA Today, Barnes and Noble, Rhapsody and Doubleday Book clubs. She collaborated with country superstar Wynonna Judd with Restless Heart. She's currently writing Captivating the Cowboy, the first novel in a contemprrary Western series set in Colorado. She lives in Florence, Kentucky and when she isn’t writing… she enjoys family, friends, cooking, reading, music, travel and University of Kentucky basketball.

www.LuAnnMcLane.com

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
93 global ratings

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Donna S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2017
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Small towm Kentucky romance, two story lines and lots of wonderful characters. Cannot wait to read the rest of the series. Noah and Livie, Jason and Madison rekindle old flames with humor and a few hot scenes.
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GSK
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2017
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Good book
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Marwoods
5.0 out of 5 stars I love the Cricket Creek series!
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2015
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I love the Cricket Creek series! The characters are so believable, like someone who lives around the corner. The setting is so real, I want to visit Cricket Creek. I look forward to the next book release. Keep these books coming, LuAnn!
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Cristal
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2011
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I LOVE Luann Mclane, and was so excited to see a new book. I downloaded it on the day it came out. I have never finished reading it. Most of Mclane books have a great Southern twang that other authors don't have, and can't seem to even produce. Dark roots and Cowboy boots had me laughing out loud, and that's what I really wanted from this read, and it just did not deliver.
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M Dingess
5.0 out of 5 stars 3 cheers for McLane
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2013
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I love Luann McLane's books. They are great every day romances with a real life feeling. Pulls you in and makes you feel like you're apart of Cricket Creek. I can't wait until the next book in this series comes out.
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Cara K. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Series
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014
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These books are a series and I could not put them down as always I will not tell you about the books you can read that on Amazon but they were so good.
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JeanK
4.0 out of 5 stars A town that will keep you coming back.
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2011
Cricket Creek, Kentucky is a quiet river town which relies on tourism to keep going. But like many other places, the economy has hit hard and people in Cricket Creek Are worried about surviving.

Enter Noah Falcon--a favorite son who parlayed his good looks and notoriety on the baseball field into a starring role on a soap opera. But like the town, Noah has hit some bumps in the road. So when he roars back into Cricket Creek in his shiny Corvette, he hopes that the town can help him as much as he wants to help the town.

Olivia Lawson has other ideas. A beloved English teacher at the high school, Olivia feeds her need to be on stage with roles in local theater productions, but she has no desire to share the stage with Noah. Remembering how dismissed she felt by him in high school, there is no way Olivia wants to revisit those old feelings.

Of course, their hearts have other ideas. Both Noah and Olivia learn that who they were is not necessarily who they are and after a lot of years and a lot of growing up, Olivia and Noah find a way to help the town and each other.

This book has the hallmark of any great series...a great setting. I loved how Luanne developed the town itself. The theater, the school, the local bar and diner give the town a strong culture and the characters that populate Cricket Creek will become old friends as the series progresses.

Finally, as hero and heroine, Olivia and Noah couldn't be more different which is what made this perfect. He chipped away at her stern exterior and she helped him see how home, and a sense of belonging, can help a wandering heart find comfort. They are charming together--their bickering, their uncertainty about each other and eventually their chemistry is endearing and had me rooting for them.

With a wonderful cast of characters firmly in place, I'll look forward to the next Cricket Creek novel.
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Jaclyn s maybury
5.0 out of 5 stars It was a good first.
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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This was the first time I have read anything by her. I enjoyed it, it was funny and heartwarming at the same time.
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