This story is about Lucy and Jax. Lucy is a physiotherapist for kids with disabilities, and Jax was a football player who got retired recently and moved to his hometown so he could open a camp for the kids who are dealing with disabilities. The idea hit Jax for various reasons, like the sense of guilt because of what happened to Ty, his best friend, and Lucy's brother due to an accident, and also because of a PR situation where some attention-crazed girl took a picture of him and his teammate at the afterparty of a win. Sure, he has some years to go and play, but he's home sick and wants the stability of it, so when it was ever put in place, he decided to buy land and work on his retirement plan. Lucy recently found the BF she meant to marry cheated on her and was single. She is a pediatric physiotherapist, and it has something to do with her brother Ty injury, which she believes was Jax's fault. She hated him to the bone even more than her cheating ex, but we will see in the story how it changed.

So this is a slice of life story in the small town and the "you have no choice but dealing with me" situation. Lucy hates Jax because she believes it was his fault that Ty was injured to the point where he could have died but, by luck, survived, though it wasn't entirely Jax's fault. Ty and Jax were best friends since kindergarten and played football since they were kids, and they had a dream to make it to the NFL, but the accident left Ty nearly disabled, but Ty never considered Jax responsible for it, and they still stayed friends. There is a lot of hostility from Lucy toward Jax, and it's kind of understandable when you see how close they are in the book. On the other hand, Jax, also bothered by the feeling of guilt, made a decision to buy land in his hometown so he could do something for the kids with problems, so he could feel better. He has no idea that Lucy still hung on the accident like he is, and that's kind of turning into the hate to companion to lover" trope since Lucy only claims to do anything in the book because of Ty and the kids.

It's a dual pov of Lucy and Jax. The author's description of the book is high-low pace, it's like Lucy's hatred was explained and sure it's valid, but her feeling on many occasions seems like relaxing and easy. It's like every raise of emotions only directs at Jax. and we have Jax. Who is like, "They told me it's a bad idea, but I'm a captain of my own ship" guy? He did try to explain the situation to Lucy and ease the hostility, and there are moments when you feel like "the guy needs a break," but somehow it also makes it hard to emphasize with him since every time he only decides to act on his own accord, and sometimes it goes to the left side. But sure, the relationship is hard earned, and I think the overall is good. It's not hard earned of the "knight in shining armor or villain sacrifice" earned; it's a kind where characters try to see other than their own selves and feelings and are "I need to be patient".

I rate the book 3 and the development also 3. I say the point where every character tries to deal with his own issues and consider the future is really hit. I have this easy time when I enjoy Lucy or Jax making some decisions, which is critical, but they act so calm it's looked like easy. This book is surely a good choice for those who need a slice of life that looked boring but is full of events

Chase brings her best moves to the table with Undeniable Love. The heart speaks it's truth with haunting accuracy and soulful delivery. Jax and Lucy turn heartache into hope. From the tragedies of their past to the redemption of their present and hope for the future, the emotions run deep. A love beyond words that has alot to say.

I would say this book was just ok. Not bad, but also didn’t knock my socks off. Admittedly, I didn’t read the previous books, and I see this is part of a series. Everything made sense and I never felt lost or confused, so I would say it’s ok to read as a standalone, but maybe it would be better with more background?

The narrator was easy to understand, but there was something strange about how she said some endings of words that stuck out to me. She did ok with the male parts which is sometimes a challenge. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to listen and review.

This was a very sweet best friends sister/childhood friends to enemies to lovers romance. I was very excited about the charity project he was set to open hut feltbthat part of the storyline got sidelined pretty early

I love Samantha Chase romances. I like knowing that there will be loving main characters, who are adults and can talk. They have supportive family and best friends who will love them and can tease and provoke them as well. I enjoy the tension and heat between the leads and while I have no issues with more explicit romances, I like that there are well written romances for people who don’t want every intimacy described.

Lucy Dawson has never forgiven Jax Wilder for the pain he and his family inflicted on her family twelve years ago. She has gone on to be pediatric physical therapist in her home town of South Creek, but wants to move on to bigger places. Jax is now a successful quarterback in the NFL. He has dreams of opening up a sports camp for kids with disabilities. One of his best friends, who is also Lucy’s brother, suggests property in their hometown. It brings the star quarterback and Lucy together for the first time in years. Her work is a perfect fit for helping with his dream project.

This is a very enjoyable story. There is enough football to consider it a sports romance as well. It is the third in the Wylder Love series. And I am assuming his brothers and their wives were the main characters in the previous books. They all make appearances here and it is clear they support Jax even when he isn’t making the best decisions. I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the narration by Amy McFadden. I’ve already looked to see if the previous books are available at my local library. (Only one so far.) (4.5 Stars)

I would've liked to have known it was in 3rd person pov ahead of time. Also would've loved to have a male's voice for his perspective.
Other than that, the story hit all the marks and was good. I'm just not the biggest fan of 3rd person pov.

The book kicks off with Lucy having to cancel her wedding and being invited to participate in a children camp by her brother and his best friend Jax, who she hates because he nearly destroyed her family.

Jax, NFL superstar, is close to retire and wants to give back to his community by starting a children camp. His best friend’s sister Lucy, seems like the perfect choice to include due to her line of work, but when he sees she hates him he lets go of the idea.

After Lucy finds out she has been wrong about Jax for so long, she extends an olive branch by attending one of his games and apologizing to him. They end up spending a few nights in the hot tub and confront their attraction, that is when things begin to heat up and lines become blurry.

Overall, the book is engaging and keeps the reader hooked. I enjoyed the family dynamic both of the MMC and the FMC had, it added dimension to the book.

Narration Notes:
Enjoyed the narration, although would prefer a male narrator for Jax’s parts.

Tropes:
* Brother’s best friend
* Sport romance
* Age gap
* He falls first
* 3rd person POV

3.5⭐️ so I’m rounding to 4

This is the third installment of The Wylder series by Samantha Chase. It can be read as a standalone, which is how I read it.

This book is phenomenal. If you love small town romance, check this one out. It's literally one of the best.

Lucy, a pediatric physical therapist, has a grudge against Jax, a NFL football star. Jax is Lucy's Brothers best friend. Are they a live match? Hmmm. Have to read it!!!!

Many thanks to Net Galley and Dreamscape Media for an audio ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Undeniable Love
Wylder Love, Book 3
By: Samantha Chase
Narrated by: Amy McFadden

This book is the exact reason I love Samantha Chase. Engaging characters and a love story that I could not put down. Lucy is the youngest in her family, and since her brother Tyler's accident has been on a hate streak for the Wylder family. After all, if Jax wasn't drunk and could have driven her brother home, and if his father wasn't drunk and hit him, her family's life would have been much different. But is that the truth? Now seeing Jax, and having to deal with him, secrets are revealed and feelings grow. Jax too has obstacles to overcome. Can these two heal each other and find their happiness? Love, love, love this story. It's about being overprotected and not knowing all the facts, dealing with life only as you know it, finding the even ground and realizing you have found the one. I could not stop listening to this, enjoying the brothers, hearing the history and now the seeing the future these two could have. It's an amazing addition to the series and is pure enjoyment.

Amy McFadden is the story teller and she is fantastic! Her voices never cease to amaze me, each one fitting the character and making them real. She brings this story alive and made the listen emotionally driven and romantic!

To note, I am not in the NFL nor am I a physical therapist. However, I'm an occupational therapist and a former Division I collegiate athlete, so I am very familiar with both high-level athletics and pediatric rehabilitation. There is not a WORLD in which players are kept after a game to watch film for hours. Athletes have post-game rehabilitation and cool-down work but nobody is sitting on the football field to watch game footage. It was also incredibly obvious that Samantha Chase did inadequate due diligence on researching pediatric PT spaces. I was in physical therapy for a large part of my adolescence and as mentioned, am extremely familiar with these spaces given my career. Maybe it's just because I'm knowledgeable about sports/PT but the way these sections were portrayed were done SO poorly that it took away from the entire book.

Those aside, I mean, it wasn't terrible. It was a good audiobook to listen to while training for a half marathon. The ending was cute. I love love. The character arcs were realistic. But so much of the plot and details of the story were SO unrealistic and terribly written that it made this book difficult to follow.

We are back in South Creek where another of the Wylder brothers finds love. This time the story belongs to the well known and much admired NFL player Jax Wylder.
Jax has always loved playing football but a recent injury has him home for a while. Making him even considering the possibility of retirement sooner than later as well as thinking of a camp for kids with disabilities. Home is also where twelve years ago the life of his best friend Tyler changed forever.
Meanwhile, Lucy Dawson , a pediatric physical therapist and sister of Jax’s best friend, has been eager to leave town to experience the city , especially now that she’s about to get married.
The day her wedding pictures were to be taken , she discovers her fiance is not whom she thought he was, and ends the engagement. Somehow realizing that she was more interested in the move than the potential nuptials.
What she didn’t expect was for Jax to propose her a place to work in his camp. Especially when she blames him for the injuries that changed her brother’s life.
When Lucy realizes she could be mistaken on who was to blame , she warms up to the potential proposition , as well as finds herself developing feelings for Jax.
But can they really make a long distance relationship work? What happens when priorities seem to be changing?
This was another entertaining and engaging story in the series. It’s a story about family, clearing the past, taking chances in life and realizing that love is worth taking a chance as well.
Amy McFadden’s narration of the story brings it to life.
I was entrusted a copy of this audiobook by Netgalley and Dreamscape. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

This was so good! The banter was so much fun and the chemistry was something special! These two were meant to be! Samantha always knocks it out of the park.

Lucy Dawson is a small town girl and just wants out of South Creek, until she finds her fiance literally with his pants down with their wedding photographer and she sends him packing. Jax Wylder is an NFL superstar who is contemplating retirement after this season and looking to the future and needing some help with PR. While talking with his best friend about his idea for a kid's camp he finds out that Lucy, his friend's sister, is a pediatric physical therapist and would be perfect for the plan. The only problem, she blames Jax for the accident that injured her brother and kept him from the NFL and caused her family their money problems. When she finds out she didn't have her facts straight her world is turned upside down. Now she is working with Jax and he is not the bad guy but someone special. These two are perfect together. Add in their families, the football season, working together and all the rest and they can concur anything. Love the Wylder brothers surround each other with so much love and support!

It’s a sweet hate to love, small town, off limits guy who I’m sure destroyed my family so I can never forgive him, brothers BFF, hero complex, sports romance, instalove story. The main characters are good people who could use some lessons in communication and a bit of maturing, but are well meaning and it's clear how they all care about each other. The story was fun, sweet and romantic and led to a lovely happy ending. Uprated to 4 from what would have been a 3.5 rating.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This was a sweet & easy read. A story of enemies to lovers, small town, brothers best friend!

Although This book was not the first in the series, I didn’t have any trouble keeping up/can be read as a standalone but gives little peeks of characters or events from previous books.

This was a great book to listen too! The narrator was awesome! I read it as well and honestly it’s such a great story with wonderful characters that listening or reading is a pleasure.
Can there be more brothers, please? I loved Jax and Lucy’s story so much, but I am so sad this series is over now. I think Lucy’s siblings need stories too, especially Ty.
I was really happy with how much Noah & Lily and Simon & Juliet are in this book though.
Samantha Chase always gives me everything I am looking for in a romance and so much more! And this time there’s even football! Jax and Lucy have a complicated start for sure, in that she does not even like him. Once she finally gets the whole story though she sees him in a whole new light. They have undeniable chemistry. I love their journey and how they make long distance work. I love them together and how much they are there for each other. I thoroughly enjoyed this book!

A small girl humiliated days before her wedding and her misguided hatred for the hometown NFL superstar.

Lucy Dawson's plans of leaving her small town come to a halt when she is betrayed by her fiance. Now she has to find a new purpose in her small hometown. The last person she expects that purpose to come from is her brother's best friend, NFL superstar Jax Wylder.

An accident that changed her brother's life has been Lucy's reason for hating Jax and for Jax's feelings of guilt. But Lucy will learn that she never had the whole story.

Misplaced feelings of hatred and guilt lead to new feelings and how to deal with them will develop.

4.5 stars
This is a fun, entertaining read. Jax and Lucy are intriguing, complex, wounded, strong, smart, engaging, interesting, entertaining characters. I enjoyed their romance and the path it took to get to their HEA. These two are fun to spend time with. I loved the small town feel and family aspects of the story. The secondary characters added to the fabric of the story and my enjoyment. The story is easy to read and get into.

I enjoyed the audio version of this book and the narrator.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I really enjoy Samantha Chase’s books for a light, escapist comfort read, and Undeniable Love was just that.

This was a sweet and heartfelt story of enemies to lovers, complete with a small town setting and brothers best friend/famous football player. I enjoyed the comfortable genuine development of Jax and Lucy’s relationship as they navigated their respective careers and family dynamics. Their reactions and choices at time felt overly dramatic, but honestly it was endearing, and was a cute quirk of their relationship.

The narration was animated and well paced. It was easy to get caught up in the story and the narrator did a wonderful job capturing the characters of both Lucy and Jax and all of their scheming siblings.

This book was easy to enjoy as a standalone, but there were more minor threads that have me keen to pick up the other books in this series.

Thank you Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for this audiobook. Opinions expressed are my own.

Love, love, 💕. I finished this book in one day. Now that's a true 5 star book. In my opinion this is the best book of the series. I love Lucy and Jax. They are so perfect together and really balance each other out. Ying and Yang. I really hope we get a Dawson series of books.