Playing By The Rules

Choices made under pressure, and everything that follows from them, drive Playing By The Rules by Monica Murphy. The romance tracks two people whose decisions could reshape their futures, holding the line between caution and risk while attraction complicates both. Murphy gives her leads interior lives rather than types, and the emotional turns arrive out of character rather than coincidence, which keeps the stakes believable through to the close. Published by Penguin Publications for adult readers of contemporary romance. Marks of the series: • A romance built around consequential decisions • Power dynamics examined alongside attraction • Multidimensional leads with room to change • A contemporary setting with emotionally charged conflict Suited to readers who want romance with weight behind the feeling, published by Penguin Publications and stocked at Boipoka.