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Hero archetypes
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Synopsis
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Risk the Play is a single mom, coach, best friend's dad, forbidden, secret-relationship, age-gap romance. Will Football was always simpleāfollow the playbook, make the sacrifice, win the game. I lived by that rule for decades, and it cost me everything. My marriage. My daughter. By ten, she believed I loved the game more than her. Now sheās back in my lifeāwith a family of her ownāI fight every day to show her Iāve changed. Then I fumble it all by falling for her best friend. Amanda is strong, stubborn, and raising her daughter alone after her husbandās betrayal. One kiss becomes something neither of us can ignore. She wants to keep it secret. I donāt. Because this time, Iām willing to risk the play. I wonāt lose my second chance at love. Amanda I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I just never planned on doing it alone. But when my ex got his assistant pregnant, I stopped, waiting for the life I thought Iād haveāand choose motherhood for myself. Now Iām a single mom doing my best to build a quiet, steady life with no drama and no risks. Until my best friendās father becomes the one risk I canāt resist. Coach Warner is disciplined, respected⦠and completely off limits. Watching him fight for his daughter only makes falling for him more dangerous. We tell ourselves itās just once. But one reckless kiss turns into a night we canāt take backāand a secret we definitely canāt afford to keep. Because if weāre discovered, I could lose my best friend⦠And he could lose his daughter all over again. Falling for me was never part of his playbook.
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Run the Play - Special Edition: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This adult contemporary romance features mature sexual content (including on-page intimate scenes), forbidden romance elements (best friend's father relationship), and themes of infidelity/divorce that led to single parenthood. Strong language likely present.
What to know going in
This book has no graphic violence, steamy sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include cheating/infidelity, divorce, and abandonment.
Who'll love this
Adult readers will appreciate the emotional second-chance romance between a reformed football coach and his daughter's best friend navigating forbidden attraction.