Falling Stars by Lex Martin is now live!

By Book Bangers Blog - July 24, 2025

Falling Stars by Lex Martin is now live!

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 hair stylist, 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!

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Review:

*swoon factor in effect* Maverick and Bailey have been best friends forever. No matter what trials they faced growing up, they always had each other. Until one night, Bailey decided to see if Maverick feels more than friendship. Now, years later, and with only one-word text messages, Bailey thought her life would be different. She's struggling to keep her mama's hair salon running, trying to take care of herself, her employees, and figure out who keeps destroying parts of her life. When she finds out she is pregnant, it's her friend who suggests she stay at Maverick's place. She doesn't want to, but she doesn't have a choice. Maverick only wanted to make it to the NFL and worked so hard to get there, leaving his family and town behind. Now in the big city, where things aren't going as planned, he's trying to make it work. He misses home and he misses his friend. When something happens that forces him and Bailey together again, not only are the sparks still there, but the truth of that night will come out. However, someone is out to destroy her, and Maverick will do whatever he can to protect her—or die trying.

Meet Lex Martin

Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of Varsity Dads, Texas Nights, and the Dearest series. She writes contemporary romance novels, the steamy kind she hopes readers love but her parents avoid.

She's always been obsessed with writing, starting in elementary school when she would pen short stories and make her father read them. (Afterward, he'd have to take her tests, but he was a good sport and did them without complaint.) In high school, when she wasn't playing basketball, she wrote emo poetry and worked on the school newspaper.

She later became a nationally-certified high school English teacher and freelance journalist but decided she'd rather write romance novels than tests or city hall articles.

Lex loves coffee, rom coms, pen hoarding, planners, and college football.
She married her almost college sweetheart (they met right after graduation), and she's still obsessed with him, especially when he writes her songs.

She currently resides in her hometown of San Antonio with her husband, twin daughters, and their bunny. Drop her a line. She loves hearing from readers.