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A Slow-Burn NFL Romance with a Fake Engagement, Childhood Friends to Lovers, and Years of Secret Yearning
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The newest book in Kristen Callihan's fan-favorite GAME ON world delivers an emotionally charged NFL romance with a fake engagement, childhood-friends-to-lovers tension, and the kind of slow-burn yearning that will wreck you. Perfect for fans of Elle Kennedy and high-heat sports romance.
A "fake" fiancée is just the trick to help a bad-boy football player clean up his image. Trouble is, there's nothing fake about the way August feels about his "pretend" fiancée.
August Luck is on the brink of greatness: #1 NFL draft pick, a new starting quarterback role, and a future everyone expects him to dominate. But he keeps making headlines for all the wrong reasons. After his latest stunt goes viral, everyone agrees: he needs to get it together.
Penelope Morrow grew up alongside August. Their mothers were best friends. The Luck family practically raised her. But August barely spoke to her, and Pen was always too shy to do anything but flee the room when he walked in. She's spent years convinced he couldn't stand her. He's spent years convinced of the same.
When Pen inherits her grandparents' house but can't afford the estate tax, August sees an opportunity: a fake engagement that solves both their problems. He cleans up his image. She keeps her home. Simple.
Except nothing about Pen has ever been simple for August. And the longer they pretend, the harder it gets to keep the truth buried: this was never fake. Not for him. And maybe not for her either.
All's fair in love and football…game on.
"August and Pen's story had me in a chokehold! Tension. Banter. Yearning. Emotional depth. I (gleefully) did not come up for air until the final page." —Mia Sheridan, New York Times bestselling author
Perfect for readers who love:
Fake engagement / fake dating Childhood friends to lovers Mutual secret yearning Slow-burn NFL romance Shy girl / sunshine boy Hero in hot pursuit
Love spicy football romance? Don't miss Kristen Callihan's GAME ON series: The Hook Up, The Friend Zone, The Game Plan, and The Hot Shot.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fun standalone fifth installment of Callihan's bestselling Game On series (after The Hot Shot) offers a slow-burning but still steamy take on the fake-relationship trope. Rookie NFL quarterback August Luck comes from a football dynasty. The pressure of his family legacy leads to him "messing up and acting out" off the field, garnering him a bad-boy reputation. After reconnecting with longtime family friend Penelope Morrow, August realizes she may be the key to improving his image and proposes a PR relationship. If this arrangement enables him to act on his long-standing feelings for her, well, that's a plus. Penelope, an introverted and inexperienced college senior majoring in film history, has always felt shy around August, but she agrees to pose as his fiancée on game days. As they get to know each other as adults, their simmering mutual attraction gives way to some high-heat love scenes. Though both of their families are surprised at their relationship, Callihan doesn't put too many barriers in the way of this couple's happily ever after, instead allowing their intense chemistry to blossom naturally. Readers will have no trouble rooting for these two.
Customer Reviews
I didn’t want it to end!
It’s rare that I get to the end of a book and feel like this. Callahan has not only created two engaging main characters, but an entire Luck universe of them. Loved not only the banter between Pen and August, but between the entire extended family. I want to hang out with them. This enthralling cast is par for the course for Kristen Callihan's series thus far and I should have expected it here too. I would love to see her branch off from this “Game On” series book to one that centres on the Luck siblings.