Offsides
The Originals
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4.2 • 31 Ratings
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Publisher Description
He's the beast, and she's the beauty of his past.
After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Championship ring. His focus has been on hard hits–not smooth manners; about breaking quarterbacks–not making small talk at cocktail parties. After dumping a tray of drinks on the team owner’s daughter and accidentally feeling up the governor’s wife, his tenure with his team looks perilously short.
Kelsie Carrington-Richmond knows what it's like to fall from grace. A onetime beauty pageant star and former high-school mean girl, she's now destitute and one step from living out of her car. With few real job skills, she focuses on starting her new business, Charm School for Real Men. She's thrilled to land her first clients, the Seattle Steelheads, who have hired her to polish their roughest player.
Except…it’s Zach. The same guy whose broken heart she left in her wake when she was still a mean girl. He’s just the beast she remembers—but she’s nothing like the beauty queen she once was.
Can they get beyond their pasts? Or will they both find themselves offsides?
Previously published as Down by Contact in 2013. This version has been updated, re-written, and re-edited.
Customer Reviews
Great Addition
Offsides; The Originals is book 3 in the Seattle Steelheads it I believe you could still read and enjoy this as a stand-alone. Jami Davenport is one of my favourite authors and her sports romance’s are alway interesting and well written and this book is a great addition to this series.
Zach and Kelsie met in high school but they came from different sides of the track and she broke his heart and destroyed him emotionally. Move forward a few years and they both have very different life’s, Zack is now a successful football player and Kelsie needs him to kick star her new image consultant business but will the past be to painful for this couple to move forward with the future.
I loved this book, I loved the plot, the writing, the characters and if you are looking for a great sports romance look no further than Offsides. Great read and great addition to the series
Emotional and engaging
I love Jami Davenport’s style of writing; her books are always interesting and she has never failed to deliver for me. This is an enemies to lovers story that drew me in and kept me riveted throughout. Zach Murphy and Kelsie Carrington-Richmond knew each other in high school; he was the poor kid and she was a “mean girl”. Fast forward 12 years and now they could not be more different.
Zach is focused on winning a Super Bowl ring and just when it is within reach, he falls short. Kelsie is on the run from an abusive ex and is struggling to make ends meet. When she is hired by the Seattle Steelheads as an image consultant she leaps at the chance, that is until she realizes that the man she has to assist is Zach, the man whose heart she broke.
When they meet again, it is with resentment and regret. Can they overcome their tumultuous past and focus on the job at hand, or is the past destined to destroy their present and possibly their future?
This was at times an emotional roller coaster of a read, particularly as the details of Zach’s past unfolded. Can Zach and Kelsie learn to trust themselves and one another? Offsides is a second chance at love story about digging deep, facing your past and moving forward. It was well written and a story you can really dig your teeth into.