Kickoff
The Originals
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4.3 • 102 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Struggling pro football wide receiver Derek Ramsey was once Rachel McCormick's best friend and lover. She's about to help him get back his game.
Stuck with an empty bank account, an uncanny ability for evaluating football talent, and a dogged determination to succeed in a man's world, Rachel swears to do just that. When it's suggested Derek needs a pre-game tension reliever, Rachel takes one for the team.
The next day, Derek has the best performance of his not-so illustrious career. Soon Derek and Rachel are racking up nights in bed--and other places--and the team is racking up wins. But Derek knows the truth behind a secret that destroyed her father years before. A truth that might destroy Derek, too.
Rachel and Derek are torn between love and duty, and the clock is winding down. It's fourth and goal, one second left in the game. The next play Derek makes must be for Rachel's heart.
Previously published as Fourth and Goal in 2011. This version has been updated, re-written, and re-edited.
Customer Reviews
Being together makes you a better person.
Jami once again has delivered a Heartfelt Story about life and the hurtles we can face along the way. Derek and Rachel have been best friends since growing up together who lost their connection as young adults, who then find their paths cross again. The connection between Derek and Rachel grows strong again and that being together completes them and makes them a better person when they are together than when they are apart.
Jami involves the reader in a way that you feel you are along for the ride with Derek and Rachel in their journey of reconnecting and makes you realise life is too short and what’s important in life.
This book is a can be read as a standalone and is one of The Original stories that Jami wrote in her Seattle Lumberjacks Series and has had the rights to the books reverted back to her. Jami has since updated, rewritten and re-edited this one and Jami has made this story even better; this a great way to start reading the first book which is part of the Seattle Steelheads Series.
Loved it
Loved it. Already onto the next book.
Emotional second chance romance
This is a book that has so much going for it, it was easy to read with just the right mix of passion and angst and like all of this authors books you really feel part of the story, a second chance romance set in the world of the Seattle Steelheads football team and this is Derek Ramsey’s story.
Derek Ramsey is the wide receiver for the Steelheads but his game has fallen apart and he has lost his confidence so the team bring in Rachel McCormick to get him back on track what no one knows is Rachel was once the love of Derek’s life and also his best friend before he broke her heart .......
Will Rachel risk her heart again and what about the job she has worked so hard to get .......
This book had me laughing but it also had me crying, it was an emotional read centred around a team that to honest feel like family, it’s book one in the original series but it can certainly be read as a stand-alone. Looking forward to wher we go next with The Seattle Steelheads.