Slick's review posted at Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Sometimes a book is just so well rounded that it makes the reader feel at home and makes the story come alive and that's exactly how I feel about Shannon Stacey's Homecoming. I loved that the former bad boy quarterback was asked to come back to the town that he left behind with little regard and found the home he'd never had before with a woman he always felt was way too good for the likes of him. More than that, I loved that despite how he felt about himself, the heroine, his ex-teammates, the kids he came back to coach, and even long time citizens recognized the man he'd become and everything he had to offer their community. This was a story about change, about acceptance, about forgiveness and about opening yourself up to the possibility of having more in your life than you ever expected. 
 For only the second time in the 14 years since he left Stewart Mills, Sam Leavitt returns only this time he's back to coach the high school football team at the request of the man he feels he owes his life to recovers from a heart attack. Being back isn't easy; the memories of his abusive father, his alcoholic mother and the trouble he got into assail him at every turn as well as the good ones of Coach saving his delinquent self, the state football championship and the night he spent with Jen Cooper wrapped around him on the hood of her car following Eagle Fest. 
 Working in the same school puts Sam and Jen in close proximity and the fact that as the high school's guidance counselor Jen spends a lot of time with the boys of the football team. It was obvious that while Jen thoroughly enjoyed her tryst with Sam she is thrown having him back in town and around all the time. It was entertaining watching them fight their growing attraction, watching Sam realize that he was more than his past, and watching Jen realize that despite how much she loves her job and her hometown falling in love is the best of all. 
 I've loved every book in Shannon Stacey's Boys of Fall series, but there was something just a bit more special about Homecoming making it my favorite of the series. 
 Review copy provided for an honest review.