Well Played is the second in the Well Met series, another summer season at the Willow Creek Renaissance Faire. It's a fun, fast read filled with tavern wenches, pirates in black leather, and a band called the Dueling Kilts. Mistaken identity leads to an online relationship with both parties revealing truths they haven't voiced out loud. The questions "Will Stacey and her mystery man share the same connection in person?" and "When and how will the truth come out?" kept me on the edge of my sofa reading until the end.Publisher's description:
Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it's been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants more out of life. Stacey vows to have her life figured out by the time her friends get hitched at Faire next summer. Maybe she'll even find The One. When Stacey imagined "The One," it never occurred to her that her summertime Faire fling, Dex MacLean, might fit the bill. While Dex is easy on the eyes onstage with his band The Dueling Kilts, Stacey has never felt an emotional connection with him. So when she receives a tender email from the typically monosyllabic hunk, she's not sure what to make of it. Faire returns to Willow Creek, and Stacey comes face-to-face with the man with whom she's exchanged hundreds of online messages over the past nine months. To Stacey's shock, it isn't Dex--she's been falling in love with a man she barely knows.