First Down

Grace Reilly

Book 1 of Beyond the Play

Bex, a college senior nursing a bad breakup, strikes a deal with McKee University's new star quarterback James: she'll tutor him through a writing class he needs to pass if he'll pose as her boyfriend to get her controlling ex off her back. As their fake relationship forces them into constant close contact, the banter and chemistry between them start to feel uncomfortably real. Both are wrestling with family pressure and big decisions about their futures, and neither is sure how to admit that the "fake" part of their arrangement stopped being true.