Never The Best (Savannah's Best #5)
Maya Alden
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
3.63
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 27 ratings · 354 pages · Published: 17 Mar 2025
I’m Rhett Vanderbilt, and it’s time to make things right.
When I was seventeen, I made a terrible mistake. What started as a reckless, heartless bet spiraled into something far worse. Pearl Beaumont was awkward, sweet, and hopelessly trusting—and I took advantage of every bit of it. By the time I was done, I’d left her with a broken heart and a ruined reputation.
She left Savannah not long after, and now, fifteen years later, she’s back. A lot has changed. I’m not the same selfish kid I once was. I'm determined to right my wrongs.
What I don’t expect is to find myself working alongside Pearl—or to see the woman she’s become. Confident, driven, and completely uninterested in my apologies—or me. She’s nothing like the girl I once knew. Somehow, we manage to rebuild a fragile friendship; and the more time I spend with her, the more I find myself drawn to her.
But then my fiancée decides to dig up the past, dragging Pearl’s name through the mud all over again. It’s then that I finally understand the depth of the pain I caused—the toll it took on this kind, remarkable woman.
Ending my engagement is the easy part. Proving to Pearl that she was always the one? Earning her trust? That’s going to be the fight of my life.
Never The Best is an enemies-to-lovers romance and includes all your favorite tropes:
🐝Enemies to Lovers
🐝Other Woman Drama
🐝Workplace
🐝Betrayal & Grovel
🐝Overheard
🐝Slow Burn
🐝Complete Standalone
🐝No Cheating
Trigger Warning: This book contains themes of bullying, body image struggles, eating disorders, and recovery, which may be triggering for some readers.
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Tagged as:
- betrayal 7
- m-f romance 7
- other man/woman 7
- cruel hero/bully 6
- white collar heroine 6
- rich hero 6
- second chances 6
- childfree 6
- contemporary 6
- enemies to lovers 5
- independent heroine 4
- small town 4
- angst 4
- caretaking 4
- hurt/comfort 4
- good grovel 4
- friends to lovers 3
- workplace/office 2
- take-charge heroine 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- competent heroine 1
- curvy heroine 1
- plain heroine 1
- ceo/tycoon hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- eating disorders 7
- fatphobia 7
- racism 6
- mental trauma 6
- victim blaming 6
- misogyny 5
- slut shaming 4
- past child neglect 3
- mental illness 2
- third party abuse 2
- miscarriage / infertility 1
- geography
- georgia 4
- usa 4
- north america 3
- Format
- first person pov 5
- dual pov 5
- male pov 3
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The 'Savannah's Best' series
3.75 · 176 ratings
m-f · betrayal · contemporary · super rich hero · other-man-woman · dual-pov · georgia · first-person-pov · explicit-open-door · competent heroine · misogyny · male-pov · usa · tycoon · angst · north-america · slut-shaming · audiobook · second chances · racism
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