Wild Cards by Simone Elkeles

Simone Elkeles sure knows how to tell an amazing story that grabs you from the first page. Once I began reading Wild Cards I knew she had me once again sucked into another one of her great stories. Honestly I don't think she can write anything bad. Everything that I have read of hers I have loved and Wild Cards was no different.
Bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has been kicked out of boarding school. Leaving him no choice but to live with his ditzy young stepmother while his dad is deployed. Things go from bad to worse when she tells him that she is moving them back to her hometown and childhood home in Illinois. Derek can't wait to be on his own and away from all the family drama. Ashtyn Parker wants nothing more then to get a football scholarship and leave her life behind. She pours everything she has into trying win a state championship with her team. Then her boyfriend and the star quarterback delivers the ultimate betrayal to her and the team by joining their rival football team. Determined not to let them get her down she devises a plan that may help her and her team get what she wants, but it requires the help of Derek. It requires her to put it all on the line including her heart
Derek Derek Derek you from the start jumped in and stole my heart. I loved everything about Derek from the way he tried to be the bad boy yet he did the right things more times then not. Ashtyn was a wonderful fit to counter against Derek's bad boy ways. Overall this was a wonderful love story and I appreciate that there was no insta-love it was a gradual build up which made it much more believable. The way Simone Elkeles delivers her stories makes it hard to pick apart everything is just delivered in a nice refreshing way. I can't wait to read the next story in this series. I am already anxiously awaiting it.