Sent to a small town after a public mistake, a football executive is handed a struggling youth side and a retired player who wants no part of the arrangement.
Elena Armas writes contemporary romance with a comic streak, and this novel takes its time over the setting: the town, the team and the slow repair of a career that fell apart in front of an audience. The antagonism between the two leads carries the plot, and the sports thread gives the story somewhere to go beyond the relationship.
Shelf notes:
• A small-town sports romance shaped as enemies to lovers
• A heroine rebuilding a career after a public setback
• Humour and banter carried largely by the dialogue
• A standalone story from the author of The Spanish Love Deception
Suits readers of contemporary romance and anyone who enjoys a sports-adjacent love story, available from Boipoka.