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Chemistry After the Playbook: A High-Heat Fake Dating Football Romance with a Single Dad, Professional Boundaries, Public Scandal, Forced Proximity an
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Series: Sunday Night Kings, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Their relationship was supposed to control the headlines. Neither of them planned for the chemistry to become real.
Jamie-Lee Ferris came to Kingsport for one reason: lead the renovation of Crownline Stadium and prove she belongs at the top of her profession. The last thing she needs is a famous football player complicating a project already filled with hidden structural problems, corporate pressure and people determined to make inconvenient truths disappear.
Louis Mueller has spent years surviving professional football, protecting his young daughter and keeping his private life away from the cameras. As a veteran wide receiver facing a career-defining contract decision, stability matters more than ever.
Then one photograph changes everything.
When an innocent encounter between Jamie-Lee, Louis and his daughter becomes public speculation, a temporary fake relationship seems like the cleanest way to protect everyone involved. They create rules. No interference with each other's careers. No using his daughter for publicity. No unscheduled intimacy. No confusing what happens for the cameras with what happens when they are alone.
The rules work.
Until they don't.
As problems inside Crownline threaten the season, Jamie-Lee is pressured to compromise the professional reputation she has fought to build. Louis discovers that his future with the team may depend on publicly supporting promises nobody can honestly make. And every staged touch between them makes it harder to ignore the attraction neither expected.
Because somewhere between public appearances, private arguments and the boundaries they refuse to cross without permission, pretending starts becoming the easiest part.
The real risk is admitting they want something neither contract, career nor carefully written rule can guarantee.
Chemistry After the Playbook is a high-heat contemporary football romance featuring fake dating, a protective single dad, an ambitious architect heroine, public scandal, career stakes, strong consent, found-family warmth and a complete happily ever after. The manuscript closes Jamie-Lee and Louis's romance with a concrete shared-life HEA while continuing the wider Sunday Night Kings world into Book 2.
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