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Run the Play - Special Edition

Kaylee Ryan (2025-08-19)

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SeriesNashville Rampage #
Setting
CSM age18+

Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentSteamy
LanguageMild

Heroine archetypes

Single MomFriend's Daughter

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 simple—follow 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 she’s back in my life—with a family of her own—I fight every day to show her I’ve changed. Then I fumble it all by falling for her best friend. Amanda is strong, stubborn, and raising her daughter alone after her husband’s betrayal. One kiss becomes something neither of us can ignore. She wants to keep it secret. I don’t. Because this time, I’m willing to risk the play. I won’t 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 I’d have—and choose motherhood for myself. Now I’m a single mom doing my best to build a quiet, steady life with no drama and no risks. Until my best friend’s father becomes the one risk I can’t 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 it’s just once. But one reckless kiss turns into a night we can’t take back—and a secret we definitely can’t afford to keep. Because if we’re 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.

Tags

Sports RomanceContemporary RomanceFootball

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.