After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Championship ring. His focus has been on hard hitsânot smooth manners; about breaking quarterbacksânot making small talk at cocktail parties. After dumping a tray of drinks on the team ownerâs daughter and accidentally feeling up the governorâs wife, his tenure with his team looks perilously short.
Kelsie Carrington-Richmond knows what it's like to fall from grace. A onetime beauty pageant star and former high-school mean girl, she's now destitute and one step from living out of her car. With few real job skills, she focuses on starting her new business, Charm School for Real Men. She's thrilled to land her first clients, the Seattle Steelheads, who have hired her to polish their roughest player.
ExceptâŚitâs Zach. The same guy whose broken heart she left in her wake when she was still a mean girl. Heâs just the beast she remembersâbut sheâs nothing like the beauty queen she once was.
Can they get beyond their pasts? Or will they both find themselves offsides?
Previously published as Down by Contact in 2013. This version has been updated, re-written, and re-edited.
After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Championship ring. His focus has been on hard hitsânot smooth manners; about breaking quarterbacksânot making small talk at cocktail parties. After dumping a tray of drinks on the team ownerâs daughter and accidentally feeling up the governorâs wife, his tenure with his team looks perilously short.
Kelsie Carrington-Richmond knows what it's like to fall from grace. A onetime beauty pageant star and former high-school mean girl, she's now destitute and one step from living out of her car. With few real job skills, she focuses on starting her new business, Charm School for Real Men. She's thrilled to land her first clients, the Seattle Steelheads, who have hired her to polish their roughest player.
ExceptâŚitâs Zach. The same guy whose broken heart she left in her wake when she was still a mean girl. Heâs just the beast she remembersâbut sheâs nothing like the beauty queen she once was.
Can they get beyond their pasts? Or will they both find themselves offsides?
Previously published as Down by Contact in 2013. This version has been updated, re-written, and re-edited.