The Rule Book by Sarah Adams on April 2, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Romance / Sports
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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I’m fairly new to Sarah Adams but I loved this cute (smutty) romance. This is the enemies to lovers trope and I really get into that one. The plot of this one is right up my alley and it is a sports romance as well.
The plot:
Nora Mackenzie’s entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn’t end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it’s come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he’s holding a grudge.
Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart, wants to be his agent, oh he’ll let her be his agent. The plan is make Nora’s life absolutely miserable. But if Derek knows anything about the woman he once loved—she won’t quit easily.
Instead of giving in, Nora starts a scheme of her own. But then a wild night in Vegas leads to Nora and Derek in bed the next morning married. With their rule book out the window, could this new relationship be the thing to save their careers?
I could NOT put this book down. Nora and Derek were like friends to me by the end of this book and I had a little bit of a book hangover. This second chance at love really was a winner. This one had all my sweet spots: second chance romance, sports romance, forced proximity, grumpy meet sunshine, fake marriage, enemies to lovers…I could keep going on. This was a cute rom-com with some spice and the characters were fun. The plot was hilarious. I now have to pick up Sarah Adam’s backlog of books!