Love and Sportsball
A Spicy Sapphic Sports Romance
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this steamy and sweet sapphic romance, an uptight athletic trainer has one taboo night with a hot basketball player, but are they ready to play for what they really want?
Scoring was the easy part…
Hard work has Khadijah Upton starting her dream job as an athletic trainer for the Atlanta Cannons. Then an evening of celebratory letting loose turns into a one-night stand with a beautiful stranger. It’s a reckless, wildly sexy encounter that Khadijah intends to forget…until her first day on the job lands her face-to-face with basketball star Shae Harris again.
Shae is a major player in every sense of the word, and Khadijah doesn’t plan to be the latest in a long line of “Harris Honeys.” Personal and professional just don’t mix. But Shae, who’s all about living life to the fullest, keeps tempting Khadijah to blur the boundaries. And the more Shae reveals about herself, the harder it is for Khadijah to resist her.
In the bedroom, their tension sizzles. On the court, it’s a liability. But unless Khadijah’s willing to really let Shae in, it won’t be just the team championship on the line, but a body-and-soul connection that rewrites all the rules.
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James (An Unexpected Turn) brings the heat in this steamy if disjointed Black sapphic romance. Chronically anxious Khadijah "Dijah" Upton's new job as athletic trainer for the WNBA's Atlanta Cannons starts with a shock when she discovers the sexy woman she recently hooked up with at the club is actually Shae Harris, the team's star player. Though Dijah feels strongly about separating relationships from the workplace, Shae has no such scruples, and their chemistry is undeniable. James's intense eroticism pulls readers in right at the start, and the sex scenes continue to be the strongest part of the novel. Sweet subplots about Dijah's relationship with her family and Shae's with her teammates add appealingly comfortable, upbeat dynamics. Unfortunately, Dijah's qualms, the main driver of the plot, become tedious and there's no tension or actual risk involved in pursuing the connection. Even by the end, readers may be unconvinced that Dijah's all-in on the relationship. Meanwhile, women's basketball fans will find too little on-the-court excitement to parallel the bedroom heat. This doesn't quite come together.
