Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Part of the Chicago Stars series

When debonair starting quarterback Dean Robillard, on a soul-searching road trip after a serious shoulder injury, happens across Blue Bailey, walking alongside the road wearing a beaver costume, he stops to help her. Blue is far from a Barbie-esque football groupie, but broke and stranded, she needs both a ride and a job, and the football all-star (driving a sexy Aston Martin) poses an interesting opportunity. As the two travel from Colorado to Dean's new farmhouse in east Tennessee, Blue resists his advances, and both athlete and vagabond struggle with deeply rooted trust and familial issues that are soon exacerbated by the unexpected presence of Dean's mother at the farm.

One thing I found interesting as it really dealt with more than boy meets girl and girl resists boy so now boy is intrigued. Both Dean and Blue have abandoment issues as Dean was raised by a mother who was more focused on the next rockstar to chase or concentrated on using drugs or alcohol instead of being a parent. He didn't even discover the true identity of his father until he was in middle school, a famous rockstar who didn't care either about being a dad. The only smart thing she did was put him in a bording school and let others raise him. Blue was raised by a mother who is more interested in saving others instead of being a mom and was told her dad died. She was also raised poor and constantly moving to the new event.

Most of this book is dealing with those issues as well as trying to figure out if they could make their own thing work out. Lots of bumps along away and honestly the ending was a bit tied up but fun nevertheless.