Showing results for "Football" in Genre Fiction

Evidently, I’m a rule breaker. The rule I broke? Falling for the straight man with two kids. Didn’t help that he is the Governor of California. As the starting tight end for the San Diego Storm, you’d think I had better self-control. But there was no avoiding it when our unlikely friendship blossomed, and he unknowingly started flirting back. It was out of my control.

The Radio 2 Book Club Summer Pick 2026 Welcome to the British Ladies Football Club London, 1897. Minnie Newton – twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher and women’s rights advocate – has a passion for football. But in Victorian society, football is a men's game. That is, until Minnie decides...

Lass dich nie auf einen Footballspieler ein – so lautet Darcys Grundsatz, als sie einen Job bei den Miami Gators bekommt. Traumatisiert von ihrer Vergangenheit hält sich die Single-Mom von den Profisportlern lieber fern. Als sie dann auch noch auf den Quarterback Aeron Ward trifft, sieht sie sich in all ihren Vorurteilen bestätigt. Aeron zeigt sich aller Welt gegenüber arrogant, abweisend und eiskalt. Dann jedoch bewahrt er Darcys kleine Tochter vor einem Unfall und sie erkennt, dass in der Brust des tätowierten Sportstars doch ein Herz schlagen muss.

Max Best was a call center drone living in a rough area of Manchester, England, when he defused a potentially dangerous situation in order to help out an old man. The old man 'rewarded' Max by giving him the ability to see football like a top manager, just like in the computer game Soccer Supremo. This curse-as Max calls it-was perplexing. What was he supposed to do with these abilities? Max became a scout, an agent, an advisor, and after much trial and error, earned a job as a real-life football manager.

Rudy meets Moneyball in a sexy yet warm-hearted, second-chance football romance for fans of Sarah Adams, Tessa Bailey, Monica Murphy, Kristen Callihan, and Lucy Score, as the analytical, math-nerd, type-A daughter of a tough love coach is assigned to babysit the team’s adrenaline junkie pass...

From USA Today best-selling author Jennifer Sucevic comes a sexy, new adult college sports romance collection featuring three football playing hotties.

Nineteen-year-old second-year quarterback Quentin Barnes has overcome racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earned them promotion into the meat grinder known as "Tier One." Now, Quentin and his teammates have to compete against the greatest football teams ever assembled, and do far more than just survive each game. As he rebuilds the team in his own image, Quentin's true quest for a Tier One championship begins.

I detest my new teammate. The cocky, infuriating, obnoxious Australian rugby star, Colin Kearney, gets under my skin in every way imaginable. No wonder he got kicked out of his league. From the moment we met, he's occupied all my attention, so much so that we give in to one night to f*ck it out. When he kisses me on the nose at training camp, after I rake him over the coals, it sets off a chain reaction in me I can't come back from. And I don't know if I want to find my way back.

I have no clue what happened with Dane. The last thing I remember is the night we graduated from high school. Twelve years later, we’re both living in San Diego. He can’t stand to look at me, and I can’t stand to stay away. I have to know what he’s hiding, and I’ll stop at nothing to find out.

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, The Rookie is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of Any Given Sunday with the space opera style of Star Wars and the criminal underworld of The Godfather. Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed, and rival players are assassinated.

Seven centuries in the future, the sport of American football has never been bigger, never been faster, never been more lethal. Trillions of fans from all over the galaxy watch six unique races battle in contests so violent that deaths are part of the stat sheet. Star quarterback Quentin Barnes has led his beloved Ionath Krakens to glory on the gridiron and become the most-recognized individual in history, but it is off the field where his world crumbles around him.

Knives Out meets the cutthroat world of professional football in this one of-a-kind whodunit for fans of Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, and the great American game. Retired superstar quarterback Jake Duquette has lived a listless existence since hanging up his cleats. But when...

The All-Pro is the third book in the Galactic Football League series, following on The Rookie and The Starter. Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He's reshaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over; it's win or be replaced.

Tanner, the hunky college football star, is home for the summer. Billy, the budding dessert chef, is about to have his hot-fudge-glazed world flipped upside down. Get ready for the "sweetest" romance you've ever tasted.

In these uncertain times we all need a coping mechanism. And Laura Lexx has found the obvious one - imagining life married to the sensible, no-nonsense man of our dreams, Jürgen Klopp. She thinks maybe he has something to do with football? More importantly, he definitely knows how to efficiently stack a dishwasher and would tell you honestly if you were being unreasonable about a colleague.

The story involves Yolanda Davenport's search for the truth about Ju Tweedy's involvement with the murder of Grace McDermot, the incident that drove Ju to join the Ionath Krakens.

Peyton Miller hat das Football-Talent seiner berühmten Väter geerbt – und den ganzen Druck gleich mit. Als ihm in seinem Abschlussjahr alles zu viel wird, sucht er Ablenkung … und findet sie ausgerechnet im Bett von Levi Vanderbilt. Ein Ausrutscher, sagen sie sich. Ein Experiment. Kein Grund, weiter darüber nachzudenken – bis Levi vier Jahre später plötzlich an Peytons Uni auftaucht. Für Levi war diese Nacht der Anfang von etwas Echtem. Für Peyton war sie ein Geheimnis, das nie ans Licht kommen darf.

Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He's reshaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over; it's win, or be replaced. Quentin's championship quest carries him and his teammates across the galaxy in a brutal 12-game season fraught with injury and death. But he faces more than just on-field challenges.

Barney and Hattie Frank are 12-year-old twins who play football together on the school team. The team is trying to win the County Cup. Hattie is the better player but Barney thinks he can see where the school team is going wrong. So, when a TV talent show is looking for a new manager to help a failing Premiership team to start scoring again, Barney's sure he knows the answer. Maybe, to demonstrate his skills, he could train Hattie to be a top goal scorer.

Bradford, 1916 With her husband on the Western Front, Hattie Braithwaite throws herself into work at the local mill. When Maggie Flemming, an avid football fan, joins the production line the pair soon bond over their shared love of the game, encouraging others to join them in a lunchtime...