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Natural Born Charmer (Chicago Stars Book 7)
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
About this book
Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit.
Blue Bailey is on a mission to murder her ex. Or at least inflict serious damage. As for the beaver suit she's wearing . . . Is it her fault that life keeps throwing her curveballs? Witness the expensive black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god stepping out of it.
Blue's career as a portrait painter is the perfect job for someone who refuses to stay in one place for very long. She needs a ride, and America's most famous football player has an imposing set of wheels. Now, all she has to do is keep him entertained, off guard, and fully clothed before he figures out exactly how desperate she is.
But Dean isn't the brainless jock she imagines, and Blue—despite her petite stature—is just about the toughest woman Dean has ever met. They're soon heading for his summer home where their already complicated lives and inconvenient attraction to each other will become entangled with a charismatic but aging rock star; a beautiful fifty-two-year-old woman trying to make peace with her rock and roll past; an eleven-year-old who desperately needs a family; and a bitter old woman who hates them all.
As the summer progresses, the wandering portrait artist and the charming football star play a high-stakes game, fighting themselves and each other for a chance to have it all.
Natural Born Charmer is for everyone who's ever thought about leaving their old life in the dust and never looking back. New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips takes us home again . . . and shows us where love truly lives
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
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Reader Reviews
December 17, 2008
Dean Robillard is at a crossroads in his life, having just realized that he won't be playing football forever he is driving around aimlessly trying to figure out what his life is really about. However, Dean isn't much for introspection or enjoying long stretches with only himself for company, so when he drives by a curious looking, yet headless beaver, Dean finds himself stopping just for the entertainment value alone. What he finds is one angry woman bent on revenge, with a little murder...
March 28, 2014
Review: The beginning of this story was epic – it was so incredibly random yet completely brilliant, what a way to get straight into the action already during the first paragraphs. So, you have a gorgeous, rich, successful, albeit, with a lot of baggage, guy peacefully driving in his fancy car for a small vacation … and what does he come across in the middle of nowhere? If your first guess was a beaver, then you were stop on! Well, in reality it was a woman in a beaver costume without the head...
August 21, 2016
I am afraid I have become a Natural Born SEP fan (Sep=Susan Elizabeth Phillips of course) and therefore have succumbed to reading the entire Chicago Stars Series, including Natural Born Charmer. Although I find the first few chapters in these books to quite often be over the top (this one included), I nonetheless like the way they draw you in, and get you rooting for the characters. I also like the development of the characters over several books and the re-entry of characters you have come to...
February 27, 2026
I was having a bad day...heck a bad week...so I thought I'd just stop and read for a while. Within just a few pages my whole day brightened. NEVER have I laughed so hard when reading! The little woman wearing the headless beaver suit and the VERY bad attitude had me in tears of laughter. Even now when I think of her struggles with that beaver tail, I just have to grin. The writing in this book is excellent, with characters that will make you laugh and also tug at your heart. I got this book...
August 25, 2024
The first time I tried to read this I stopped - that's how repulsed I was by the beaver opening. I am so glad I gave it another try. I loved Dean and Anabelle in Match Me If You Can - just their absolutely unexpected, but hilarious friendship. I love Dean and Blue even more. Dean is his same charming, pretty, playboy self, even eight years into his career, and he picks up Blue as a lark. If you liked Rachel from Dream a Little Dream, you will Blue - a ball-buster extraordinaire in all the best...
