Ellie K. Wilde

Broke, jaded and unceremoniously dumped by her doting boyfriend. That’s the state in which Melody Woods returns to the place she spent a decade avoiding: her small hometown of Oakwood Bay.

Things go from bad to worse when Melody’s twin brother talks her into a catastrophic end-of-summer camping trip. She finds herself stranded in the woods, awaiting rescue with only her brother’s best friend for warmth—the very person she fled her hometown to avoid.

Years ago, a mistake cost him his chance with Melody, and college football coach Zac Porter can’t blame her for wanting nothing to do with him now. While Melody hopes for a cut-and-dry see you never once they make it back to town, Zac—who’s been quietly in love with her for years—becomes determined to prove they’re meant to be.

Given their track record, Melody isn’t convinced he’s for real. Never mind that her brother would break Zac’s nose if they ever got together, and that she’s only in town long enough to get back on her feet after her break-up.

As for Zac, he’s already facing an uphill battle trying to coach his team to its first winning game in years, or risk being forced into early retirement. Getting Melody to fall for him…

What’s one more challenge, right?


Only in Your Dreams is a spicy small town, brother’s best friend, sports romance. It’s the first book in the Oakwood Bay series and can be read as a standalone.

CW: sexually explicit content, discussion and on-page depiction of a past emotionally abusive relationship (not between the main characters), on-page physical altercation (not between the main characters), discussion and on-page depiction of a verbally abusive parent (not involving the main characters), discussion of alcoholism (not involving the main characters).

A Small Town Brother's Best Friend Sports Romance

Only In Your Dreams

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I have been desperately, pathetically, feel-nothing-unless-she’s-in-the-room in love with Melody Woods for fourteen years. I’d already been struggling hard since the day she left town, but seeing her that night fucking 

My life started with the first four-leaf clover Mel Woods ever handed me, and it ended the day she left town.

I lie here both withering under the weight of her distrust and wondering how it is she’s even more beautiful than she was back then. How I had the stomach to walk away from her that night. Whether she’ll ever forgive me, and if I’ll ever manage to forgive myself.

“Now, be a good girl for Doctor Zac, yeah? I’ll make everything feel good.”

“Can you stop something from happening when you don’t realize it’s happening in the first place?”

“You—” I struggle for the right words. “You’re hitting on me. You realize that, right?”

“I’ve been hitting on you all weekend. Thanks for finally noticing.”

“Frankly, it’s a miracle you haven’t driven me half insane by now.”

“And now you know how it feels,” Zac says, voice rising. He shoves up the sleeves of his shirt. “To be driven out of my mind insane every time you’re around. To want something so fucking bad and know you can never have it.”

“I don’t understand how you’re single.”

“I’ve never been single. I’ve been yours.”

I force myself to stop thinking about the day she’ll move out of town again. Leaving me as empty as I felt the last time she left.

 Better than it ever would have been ten years ago, if I hadn’t lost my head and left her behind.

Maybe we weren’t meant to be back then, meant to kiss back then. Maybe we were supposed to wait for these very raindrops in this very parking lot.

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