On the Ropes

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Summer in the city heats up when the girl who got away moves in next door.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dean The Machine is a South Philly legend.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Much to the dismay of fans who still hound him the broody former fighter walked away from his boxing career right before clinching another championship belt. Tight-lipped on his reasons for retiring he's busy trying to figure out his future when the past literally falls in his lap.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tabitha Tyler the fiery redhead who captured his teenage heart is back in town and staying next door.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Only now the girl that got away is all grown up and offering him a strings-free summer fling. Dean knows better than to start something that will leave him flat on his back and seeing stars.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But there's only so much temptation a man can take.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kept away by the secrets that tore her family apart sparkly filmmaker Tabitha is home for the first time in nine years. And her old friend and new hunky neighbor is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>just </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the distraction she needs. It's the perfect relationship for her - one with an expiration date.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's got two weeks to convince him to cave.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's got two weeks to convince her to stay.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But when she refuses to let down her guard Dean realizes that this time...he just might get knocked out for good.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Author's note: A smokin' hot friends-to-lovers opposites-attract love story in a close-knit South Philly neighborhood with a quirky cast of nosy but well-intentioned neighbors.</em></strong></p>