Publisher's Synopsis
What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.Lainey Lukas has sacrificed everythingsleep, family, carbs, a lifeto earn her spot as the top player and captain of the Seattle Falcons womens soccer team. Shes determined to lead her team to a national championship and finally earn the sport the respect it deservesand nothing will throw her off her game. When Laineys hero Gabe Havelak, star of the Seattle Surge, crashes her teams first press conferencemaking the Falcons look like a joke to the local media and humiliating Lainey in the processshes hell-bent on revenge. Charming, confident Gabe is practically a god to Seattle soccer fans, but he doesnt mind a little friendly competition from tough-as-nails Lainey, with her top-notch athletic skills, her mile-long legs, and her girl-next-door freckles. But when he learns the Falcons are booting the Surge from their coveted practice space to the notoriously cursed Cricket Field, those warm feelings give way to crippling superstition. With his contract up for renewal and his thirty-fourth birthday just weeks away, Gabe will risk anything to protect his position with the Surge. The rivals agree to settle their differences in a Battle of the Sexes competitiona test of skills, fitness, and willpower. At first the situation seems win-win: Gabe gets the chance to earn back the Surges practice space, and Laineys team will finally get some much-deserved media attention. But as the friction between them becomes hot enough to spark and smolder, Lainey and Gabe are entering new territoryand with both of their careers on the line, love might just be the toughest opponent of all.
