by: Karen Booth
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: September 26, 2023
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Their rival sports agencies are in competition…but sex is a game both can win. Karen Booth takes you from the boardroom to the bedroom in this enemies-to-lovers romance!
Paige Moss’s agency is breaking down barriers by representing female athletes—until Zach Armstrong, CEO of a rival agency, makes a foray into her territory. If she isn’t careful, Zach could poach her clients and ruin her. A face-off at a Vegas Sports Expo should set him straight…but Paige is caught off-guard by their searing attraction. Now, she’s sleeping with the enemy!
Paige vows it’ll be a one-night affair. Zach is everything she doesn’t want—he’s her rival, her competition and he’s considerably younger. But as passion rages between them, can they find a way to mix business with pleasure?
From Harlequin Desire: Passionate and provocative stories featuring rich, powerful heroes and scandalous family sagas.
Paige Moss has worked extremely hard to get where she is in the male-dominated world of sports management. She has to work harder for her female athletes than her male counterparts to even get just a tenth of what male athletes get. Her signing the latest female basketball phenom was no accident. But Alexis Simmons wants the one thing Paige has trouble producing, endorsement deals.
Zach Armstrong has worked at his father’s sport management company for a while now. Many within the organization feel he only became CEO because he’s the owner’s son. But Zach has worked hard. For years, his father has refused to represent female athletes. Now that Zach is in charge, he has plans to change this.
A chance encounter between Zach and Paige results in him wanting to get to know her better, not just as a woman but also as a colleague. Unfortunately for Zach, Paige has a history of disdain for Zach’s father and thus him by proxy. When the two find themselves together at a big professional event in Las Vegas, attraction and desire boils over. As the two work to keep their affair under wraps and feelings in check, a misunderstanding, and old wounds threaten to destroy what could be an amazing love affair.
Their After Hours Playbook encompasses everything I love about Karen Booth’s writing. She had me loving the characters and rooting for them to be together. She brought passion and wonderful banter to the story. This time around, the dark moment wasn’t as dark as she’s been known to write. The story was pretty straightforward. This was a bittersweet story for me to read, as Their After Hours Playbook marked Karen’s final book with Harlequin Desire, as the line has been shuttered. Without question, she ended on a high note.
~ Favorite Quotes ~
“Family is the most important thing.”
“You are everything.”
“Life doesn’t always go according to plan.”
“Accepting failure is the only way to move forward in life.”
“Family is all that matters.”
“Funny how time drags when you’re miserable.”
“Some bonds are too tight to break.”
“Trust is important.”
**Received a copy of the author and voluntarily reviewed it.**
Rating: 5
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When she’s not creating hunky fictional men and the women who test them, she’s listening to everything from Otis Redding to Duran Duran to Superchunk with her college-age kids, honing her Southern cooking skills (she makes some mean collards), or sweet-talking her astoundingly supportive husband into whipping up a batch of cocktails.
Karen is co-founder of the 4500+ member Seasoned Romance Facebook group, devoted to the promotion of romance with characters 35+. She has been a finalist for RT Magazine’s Series Romance of the Year, RT Magazine’s Gold Seal of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award (NERFA), the Booksellers’ Best Award, and the Holt Medallion. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages.
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