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Falling Stars

Wild at Heart, Book 2

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Falling Stars

By: Lex Martin
Narrated by: Ruby Corazon, Michael Gallagher
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Falling for the guy who broke my heart years ago wasn’t on my to-do list when I snuck into his condo.

Maverick Walker was my best friend, my safe place—the boy I trusted with my whole heart—until one reckless kiss in high school ruined everything. Now, he’s an NFL football player, and I’m a struggling small-town hairstylist, newly single and expecting a baby. With my ex gone and someone vandalizing my business, my life feels like it’s crumbling beneath me.

When my best friend Paige suggests hiding out in Maverick’s swanky condo to regroup while he’s recovering from an injury in New York, it seems like a lifeline.

Except he comes home. Unexpectedly. When I’m half-dressed.

Now I’m stuck in his orbit again, unprepared for the way he still makes my heart race. Maverick is charming, ridiculously hot, and as off-limits as ever. But I have bigger problems than his smoldering smile—like figuring out who’s targeting me and why they won’t stop.

As the threats escalate, so do Maverick’s protective instincts. But with his life in New York and mine in Texas, our worlds couldn’t be further apart. And yet, with danger closing in, his arms are the only safe haven I have left.

But how do I let him protect me without risking my heart again—when loving him feels as out of reach as a falling star?

Falling Stars is a single mom, forced proximity, friends to lovers romance with second chance vibes. If you enjoy charming cowboys, sassy heroines, or secretive small towns, this book is for you!

©2025 Lex Martin (P)2025 Lex Martin
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Tropes:
Childhood best friends to 🖤
Single mom
Professional football player MMC
Small town
Romantic suspense
Found family

4⭐️
3🌶️

🎧 Narrators:
Ruby Corazon and Michael Gallagher

Maverick + Paige = 🫶🏼

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This is the second book in the Wild at Heart series, a small town romance. Baylee and Maverick's story is sweet, passionate, and heartwarming. It's a great friends to lovers romance. Baylee and Maverick are perfect for each other. Ruby Corazon and Michael Gallagher did an excellent job bringing these characters and this story to life. I enjoyed it.

Sweet and heartwarming!

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5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️
3🌶️🌶️🌶️

Author: Lex Martin

🏈small town romance
🏈friends to lovers
🏈forced proximity
🏈one bed

Falling Stars is the second book in the Wild at Heart series. This is a friends to lovers romance. Bailey and Maverick have been friends all through school. In high school Bailey tried to tell Maverick about her feelings for him. Now several years later Bailey is a single mom. Maverick is a NFL tight end. He gets injured and has to come back to his small home town. The tension between these two was thick. I loved this book.

Ruby Corazon and Michael Gallagher did a fantastic job narrating this book.

Falling Stars

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This is the perfect holiday weekend listen. It lifted my heart and I was completely invested in this second book in Lex Martin's Wild at Heart series. Baylee and Maverick were best friends since they were kids, but a best friend kiss challenge changed everything. Mav backed off quick and the two remained friends, but as Mav went away to college, things were not the same. Now he's back home with a horrible injury and finds Baylee staying in his condo with her infant son. Surprise! These two are incredible character. Baylee is confident and Mav is a bit of a mess. I loved their journey. It's coming of age, finding their hearts and the love and trust they always had. This small town story is just what I needed and seeing Paige and Rhett again is just a treat. This is a must listen.

Ruby Corazon and Michael Gallagher are fantastic together. Corazon holds so many emotions as Baylee. From a young crush to true love and devoted mother, she gives all the feels. Michael Gallagher is a favorite and he creates a man impossible not to love. These two are perfectly cast and had me from the first chapter.

Baylee & Maverick!!

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With their futures veering in different directions Baylee decided to test how Mav, her best friend, felt about her only to have it become one of an embarrassing moment she hasn’t been able to forget. Years later she finds herself struggling financially as she tries to manage the family business and is about to become a single mother. The opportunity to stay at his home while he is out of town couldn’t have come at a better time however finding out he is going to be there as well was a surprise she didn’t see coming.

Mav has always wanted to play football professionally and that dream has come true but an injury has him returning to his hometown. Finding out that Baylee is staying at his home may have been unexpected but not unwelcome. The feelings between them are stronger than ever and all he wants to do is be there for her and her son and show her that he is the man they both deserve.

He is swoony both when it comes to Baylee and her son while Baylee is feisty and fierce and his perfect match in every way as two people who have always belonged together find their way back to each other. Michael Gallagher and Ruby Corazon bring all the feels with their performance from the humor to the the angst to the romance.

Baylee and May!

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