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In His Corner
Rhett Jaggar is Boston's hottest underground fighter. He has the body and the winning streak to prove it. He trains like a mad man, with more discipline than a monk. But even he can't keep his attention in the ring when a brunette distraction shows up in his boxing gym.
Ava Young had it all. The fancy house on a hill, a successful businessman father, an adorably decorated dorm room, and a group of fun-loving college friends. That is, until her father's company is exposed for embezzling. She has no place to turn but her childhood best friend's couch and a new, strange life filled with underground fighters. Including the intimidatingly sexy, Rhett Jaggar.
These two opposites may come to find that they have more in common than they realize...but will it be a harmless attraction or a dangerous addiction?
Ava Young had it all. The fancy house on a hill, a successful businessman father, an adorably decorated dorm room, and a group of fun-loving college friends. That is, until her father's company is exposed for embezzling. She has no place to turn but her childhood best friend's couch and a new, strange life filled with underground fighters. Including the intimidatingly sexy, Rhett Jaggar.
These two opposites may come to find that they have more in common than they realize...but will it be a harmless attraction or a dangerous addiction?
- GenresRomanceSports Romance
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2021
97 people are currently reading
313 people want to read
About the author
Skara Gray
8 books35 followersMy name is Skara Gray and I have always loved to write. My stories are about highly suspenseful relationships between dynamic women and men. Thank you for reading!
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Seeing Red
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In His Corner -- over 2.0 million reads on Wattpad
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Against The Ropes -- over 250k reads on Wattpad
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Below The Belt -- over 75k reads on Wattpad
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Completed Books
Seeing Red
Now available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TV45QGR
In His Corner -- over 2.0 million reads on Wattpad
Now available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZLZZZBJ
Against The Ropes -- over 250k reads on Wattpad
Now available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09693DP2V
Below The Belt -- over 75k reads on Wattpad
Now available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GJN6BN1
Instagram: @skaragray
Wattpad: @skaragray
Inkitt: @skaragray
TikTok: @skaragray
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April 5, 2021
This book is great. You follow in love with Ava and Rhett and you're rooting for them for the beginning
It touch on real life situations and it have realistic characters.
Over this us a great book and recommend to anyone who like sport/professional figther romance books.
It touch on real life situations and it have realistic characters.
Over this us a great book and recommend to anyone who like sport/professional figther romance books.
January 25, 2025
mid at best
surface level, a little boring, needs another round of edits
surface level, a little boring, needs another round of edits
April 16, 2021
Thank you to all the awesome readers of this book! I still can't believe it has over 1.6 million reads on Wattpad and I can't wait to get it to more audiences.
Would so appreciate your review on Amazon! Now available as both an Ebook and Paperback and coming soon to Kindle Direct. www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZLZZZBJ/ref
Keep an eye out for Against The Ropes, a follow-on book that can also be read as a standalone. Currently being written on Wattpad! https://www.wattpad.com/story/2553711...
*Ava and Rhett make several appearances!*
Happy reading!! Love - Skara Gray (the author)
Would so appreciate your review on Amazon! Now available as both an Ebook and Paperback and coming soon to Kindle Direct. www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZLZZZBJ/ref
Keep an eye out for Against The Ropes, a follow-on book that can also be read as a standalone. Currently being written on Wattpad! https://www.wattpad.com/story/2553711...
*Ava and Rhett make several appearances!*
Happy reading!! Love - Skara Gray (the author)
April 1, 2021
When you start it you can't stop reading. You conect with the main character.
May 4, 2021
A book about how two people who are fighting against their inner demons, trying to survive in the harsh world meet and finally learn to finally live happily with genuine smile❤️💖❤️ .Join Ava and Rhett's journey to cry, to smile and to learn how to bounce back in life again when all goes down.I so much loved this book .Ava and Rhett got stuck on mind 💖💖
April 21, 2021
Once you start reading you can't stop! Love love love it!
June 9, 2021
Amazing book
Want to read
May 30, 2023Good
January 4, 2026
2.5 Stars. Aside from the fact this was a rip-off version of "Real" by Katy Evans, this had a lot of potential. I liked it better than "Real" actually, but that's not saying much. 🤣
The pacing was way off in this. It felt like the author had a lot of good ideas and put a lot into the first half and then didn't quite know where to go with it or ran out of time or their desired page length and so they rushed through the ending. A lot could have been shaved off at the beginning. Considering the length of the book, too much time was spent with him trying to avoid and resist her "for her own good" and her getting desperate and trying too hard, only for him to end up asking her to be his "ring bunny" at a point in the book in their relationship that it was downright offensive. 🙄 While I get where his thought process went with his addiction triggers, his solution was fucked from the start and was only kicking the can down the road. I lost so much respect for both of them when he had the audacity to ask for it and she was too desperate for him to say no. The Ring Bunny thing should have been done much earlier on so we could watch them grow closer over the course of the situationship. Instead, the 60-80% portion of the book was spent in this transactional, sad, sex once a week thing, after they'd already gotten to know and like each other. So they don't really develop as a couple during that, in fact it's almost like they devolved during that time, because he was basically using her as an object and they don't do anything to cultivate their relationship except have sex once a week.
Somewhere around 70%, the h has this delusional inner monologue about how she partially feels powerful and independent for for having no strings attached sex and part of her feels cheap and dirty and God damn society for making women feel shame for being sexually promiscuous when men don't have to feel that way! This was too painfully real and sad to me. I've heard people say that so many times about how women should be empowered to be as sexually promiscuous as men without shame, but why does it not seem to occur to anyone that instead of just women needing to feel empowered to be more promiscuous, we should also focus on men being empowered to put more thought and judiciousness into their sexual relationships? That's not to say that I don't support people of all genders having sex with whomever and however they *genuinely* want, as long as both parties are consenting adults, but as someone who has had a fair number of causal sexual dalliances myself when I was younger, I don't really look back on many of them as good experiences. I feel like a lot of times it can be used more as a mask to cover up being lonely and feeling desperate for human connection than it is actually liberating and empowing. Both genders could benefit from being sure they are conscientious about their sexual connections. Of course everyone's different and some people may be able to have enjoyable meaningless sex and more power to them, but myself and the h of this book are NOT those people. After it's all said and done, she's pretty much broken her own heart with the situation when she knew from the beginning she wasn't a casual kind of girl.
The ending was ridiculously rushed and in my opinion, nothing was actually resolved. His sponsor calls up the h and tells her he's not doing good, which was franky a HUGE overstep especially as his sponsor, where she's supposed to support him, not meddle in his life. It was incredibly unromantic that if it wasn't even him that made the move. Never. He never made the move the entire book. In the end, the author did nothing to make us believe there was an actual lightbulb moment or some sort of moment of clarity that made him realize he could be with her. It was just her begging him long enough until he gave in. Unless his addiction issues were properly addressed, I don't see how in 3-5 years, he's not going to be cheating on her with random women in bars.
There was a lot of promise to this story, but overall, the execution flopped. The good news is that the flaws were mostly from a lack of writing knowledge and experience that I think can be remedied with time and practice. I would probably read at least one more book by this author, just to see if they've grown.
The pacing was way off in this. It felt like the author had a lot of good ideas and put a lot into the first half and then didn't quite know where to go with it or ran out of time or their desired page length and so they rushed through the ending. A lot could have been shaved off at the beginning. Considering the length of the book, too much time was spent with him trying to avoid and resist her "for her own good" and her getting desperate and trying too hard, only for him to end up asking her to be his "ring bunny" at a point in the book in their relationship that it was downright offensive. 🙄 While I get where his thought process went with his addiction triggers, his solution was fucked from the start and was only kicking the can down the road. I lost so much respect for both of them when he had the audacity to ask for it and she was too desperate for him to say no. The Ring Bunny thing should have been done much earlier on so we could watch them grow closer over the course of the situationship. Instead, the 60-80% portion of the book was spent in this transactional, sad, sex once a week thing, after they'd already gotten to know and like each other. So they don't really develop as a couple during that, in fact it's almost like they devolved during that time, because he was basically using her as an object and they don't do anything to cultivate their relationship except have sex once a week.
Somewhere around 70%, the h has this delusional inner monologue about how she partially feels powerful and independent for for having no strings attached sex and part of her feels cheap and dirty and God damn society for making women feel shame for being sexually promiscuous when men don't have to feel that way! This was too painfully real and sad to me. I've heard people say that so many times about how women should be empowered to be as sexually promiscuous as men without shame, but why does it not seem to occur to anyone that instead of just women needing to feel empowered to be more promiscuous, we should also focus on men being empowered to put more thought and judiciousness into their sexual relationships? That's not to say that I don't support people of all genders having sex with whomever and however they *genuinely* want, as long as both parties are consenting adults, but as someone who has had a fair number of causal sexual dalliances myself when I was younger, I don't really look back on many of them as good experiences. I feel like a lot of times it can be used more as a mask to cover up being lonely and feeling desperate for human connection than it is actually liberating and empowing. Both genders could benefit from being sure they are conscientious about their sexual connections. Of course everyone's different and some people may be able to have enjoyable meaningless sex and more power to them, but myself and the h of this book are NOT those people. After it's all said and done, she's pretty much broken her own heart with the situation when she knew from the beginning she wasn't a casual kind of girl.
The ending was ridiculously rushed and in my opinion, nothing was actually resolved. His sponsor calls up the h and tells her he's not doing good, which was franky a HUGE overstep especially as his sponsor, where she's supposed to support him, not meddle in his life. It was incredibly unromantic that if it wasn't even him that made the move. Never. He never made the move the entire book. In the end, the author did nothing to make us believe there was an actual lightbulb moment or some sort of moment of clarity that made him realize he could be with her. It was just her begging him long enough until he gave in. Unless his addiction issues were properly addressed, I don't see how in 3-5 years, he's not going to be cheating on her with random women in bars.
There was a lot of promise to this story, but overall, the execution flopped. The good news is that the flaws were mostly from a lack of writing knowledge and experience that I think can be remedied with time and practice. I would probably read at least one more book by this author, just to see if they've grown.
August 15, 2022
I love a good fighter romance but this book was personally not great. I just think that there wasn’t enough build up and the author didn’t go deep end ouch in Rhett and Ava’s personal problems.
Also I feel like there wasn’t much of a plot. It just kinda felt flat. Like it was almost repetitive with what happened.
The romance also wasn’t great. There chemistry just wasn’t there and the only sorta romance aspect they had was sex and the sex wasn’t even good. Personally I love a good in depth fighter romance but the book felt so short like there couldn’t be any build up so the climax was anti climactic.
Also there were some spelling errors, so the whole experience felt like an unfinished wattpad book. No hate to the author just my opinion <3
Also I feel like there wasn’t much of a plot. It just kinda felt flat. Like it was almost repetitive with what happened.
The romance also wasn’t great. There chemistry just wasn’t there and the only sorta romance aspect they had was sex and the sex wasn’t even good. Personally I love a good in depth fighter romance but the book felt so short like there couldn’t be any build up so the climax was anti climactic.
Also there were some spelling errors, so the whole experience felt like an unfinished wattpad book. No hate to the author just my opinion <3
March 1, 2023
Pretty suspenseful read!
My 1st book by Skara Gray and I really liked it! The suspense and drama were great at keeping my attention and making me wonder what would happen next. However, being what I’m assuming is a new writer, you can clearly see all the breaks in plot and jumping from one scene to the next in her writing style. The flow was missing at times making it hard to follow when you have to insert what word actually goes in place of the missing one. It made it a little difficult to stay in the story. Could have used another proof read as the typos also threw you out of a scene and made you stop and reread then correct in your head. Otherwise? I really good read! Once she polished up her Weirton she will be unstoppable!
My 1st book by Skara Gray and I really liked it! The suspense and drama were great at keeping my attention and making me wonder what would happen next. However, being what I’m assuming is a new writer, you can clearly see all the breaks in plot and jumping from one scene to the next in her writing style. The flow was missing at times making it hard to follow when you have to insert what word actually goes in place of the missing one. It made it a little difficult to stay in the story. Could have used another proof read as the typos also threw you out of a scene and made you stop and reread then correct in your head. Otherwise? I really good read! Once she polished up her Weirton she will be unstoppable!
December 13, 2022
I really wanted to love this so bad but I just couldn’t. I love to support authors who aren’t exactly mainstream, especially women and women of color but I couldn’t get into this. I read the entire thing because I will finish anything if I can see what the writer was trying to do but this was unfortunately painful for me to read.
February 6, 2023
this was okay…thought it was gonna be a lot better though so I’m a bit disappointed. There were a lot of typos and editing mistakes but overall it was a solid romance story. and i love a good boxing romance so that was good.
August 3, 2021
Another boring, pathetic heroine.
August 13, 2021
i really like how you get to get a inside of how life can actually look like and can always give you surprises whatever you choose to do with your life
November 17, 2021
I absolutely loved this book and just everything about it!
March 14, 2022
plot holes but cutesies :)
July 14, 2022
Good read
A good read with string characters and character development. I enjoyed this story and the heat and conflict in it. A good book
A good read with string characters and character development. I enjoyed this story and the heat and conflict in it. A good book
July 26, 2022
Wise words
Predictable but always a feel good story.
The ending left me wanting to know more.
Good writer with some humor.
Predictable but always a feel good story.
The ending left me wanting to know more.
Good writer with some humor.
March 10, 2023
i read this book in 1 hour and with the amount of 5 star reviews this had im wondering we were reading the same book tbh this girl started on wattpad and it shows
April 26, 2023
The writing oooo the writing. A good buddy read would have helped the author with distracting grammatical errors and eliminating unnecessary details. For a fighting romance there was very little description of the actual fights which was disappointing.
July 27, 2023
This book was okay, but I never really felt all that invested in the characters or their story, and the large number of typos/grammatical errors was hard to overlook.
April 15, 2024
Plot was fine. Whole book was kinda mid. There were some time jumps I feel and a few small plot holes. But it was written in a way that was acceptable.
October 4, 2025
LORDDD the mannn that Rhett is ughh HE started the boxer obsession for me and I'm gladly living this this hole foreverrr
September 17, 2022
I followed this book from Wattpad and I can't wait to get lost in it
February 26, 2023
I read this book on one of those ‘pay per chapter’ apps.
Fantastic. Well written, great characters and story. No loose ends, the story comes full circle.
The ML and FL meet each other in the underground fighting world and 'use' each other to work through some demons and move past them.
Looking forward to reading another book by this author.
Fantastic. Well written, great characters and story. No loose ends, the story comes full circle.
The ML and FL meet each other in the underground fighting world and 'use' each other to work through some demons and move past them.
Looking forward to reading another book by this author.
November 28, 2024
⁀➴ five stars
one of my fav books on wattpad! rhett is such a hot underground box fighter. it’s a must read. i’ll leave it there.
one of my fav books on wattpad! rhett is such a hot underground box fighter. it’s a must read. i’ll leave it there.
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