Sometimes you really hate them or resent them, but they always find a smart and unique way to get under your skin and charm you with their power, endurance, resilience, and bravery. TJR’s heroines are flawed, but brave enough to rise from the ashes, learning from their mistakes by taking risks and challenges. “Carrie Soto is back”: might be one of her most exciting, engaging, adrenaline-pumping, entertaining, heart-throbbing novels she’s ever written! TJR is the creator of epic, unforgettable heroines and the queen of fascinating historical fiction, helping us time travel and experience the vivid images, daily lives, and true cultures of different time zones where we want to spend more time and never return back to reality! In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback. In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway.

She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.īut six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.Īt thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record.

And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.īy the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen.

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