Dabney: Susan Elizabeth Phillips published her first Chicago Stars book, It Had to Be You, in 1994. The book, featuring a tall, rugged football coach named Dan and a curvy bombshell named Phoebe is often called the first sports romance (I don’t know about that but that’s what they say.) And The Crowd Went Wild…
The Defender is the second book in the Gods of the Game series and I think it’s more lighthearted than Huang’s other books. I really liked The Striker, which was Asher and Scarlett’s story. This one is about Scarlett’s brother, Vincent, and the Coach’s daughter, Brooklyn, and while I enjoyed being back in this world,…
Hatch Kershaw, NFL hockey star (of the fictional Chicago Rebels) and son of one of the sport’s greats, doesn’t want to be at the wedding of his asshat teammate Dash and Summer, his violet eyed bride. (Dash is a trust fund bro who cheats on his fiancée and bullies his teammates.) Summer, Hatch assumes, is…
Writing Mr. Wrong is a solid, workaday romance in which the heroine has a ginormous secret, but she keeps it for a fairly sensible reason. Fairly, which is why this isn’t an A. But it’s still an enjoyable romance. Gemma is rebounding after an ugly divorce by reuniting with her old true love – romance writing….
This book should have been a novella. The premise is fine for 150 pages: a San Francisco marketing executive, burnt out and in need of a break, books a solo trip to New Zealand. On her first day, she’s caught in a riptide and rescued by a man who turns out to be the most…
Deep End is Hazelwood’s swimmer/diver romance! The leads are elite college athletes and when they find out a secret about each other they decide to become teammates with benefits. While this isn’t my favorite trope, the story has tons of banter and humor that I love. Scarlett is a platform diver and a junior at…
Narrated by Darcy Stark I enjoyed this slow-burn, veteran/rookie romance even though I know nothing about baseball! Most of that detail went over my head, but the leads have strong chemistry and I liked the fact that this wasn’t one of those stories that basically goes “we can’t do this” – they do it anyway…
Double Apex is a contemporary romance centered around F1 motor racing, the first in a new series by Josie Juniper. Our heroine is Phaedra Morgan–a thirty-something mathematician who’s also possibly neurodivergent. Phaedra is very prickly, with a foul mouth and plenty of snark. Her father owns the Emerald racing team where she works as a…
I love a good sports romance, especially one that has some depth, even melancholy à la Kate Clayborn or Abby Jimenez. Jamie Harrow’s debut contemporary romance, One on One, fits that description perfectly and I very much enjoyed it. One on One is set in the world of college basketball, but it’s about the coaches…
Fast and Reckless is the first book in the Racing Hearts series. I went into the story not knowing much about Formula One (F1) racing and ended up really enjoying this romance and this glimpse into the racing world. Miranda (Mira) Wentworth is thrilled to be back to work as an assistant at Lennox Motorsport, her father’s famed…
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