NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Change the Play is a found family, forced proximity, workplace, sports romance.
Foster
I learned early how to survive on my own. Keep my head down and my past locked away.
My childhood taught me that nothing lasts and no one chooses you forever. So I built a life free from loveāand pain.
Football gave me discipline. Success gave me distance. Silence kept me safe.
Then Eden walked into my house.
My new housekeeper. Someone meant to clean my messes and remain on the edges of my life.
Except she didnāt stay on the edges. She saw meāreally saw meāand didnāt look away. Her laugh somehow turned my empty house into something that felt like a home.
With her, the walls I spent years building began to crack.
Loving her means risking everything. It means believing Iām worth choosing. She makes me want to stop hidingā¦ and change the play.
Eden
I know what itās like to grow up unwanted. To pack your life into boxes and pretend it doesnāt hurt when no one ever unpacks them for you.
Loneliness taught me independence and resilience, to build a family from the people who stay. I never expected more.
Then I met Foster.
Heās quiet and guarded, carrying the weight of a past he refuses to name.
Working for him was supposed to be simpleādo my job, keep my head down, donāt cross lines.
But the more time we spend together, the more I see the man beneath the armor. The one he hides from the world.
We werenāt looking for love. Yet somewhere in the stolen moments, we chose each other.
And for the first time, Iām not just building a familyāIām finally home.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, sheās known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
Foster is very cautious about letting people close in part due to being raised in foster care and in part due to being hurt by the woman he loved. From the outside looking in he seems be living a charmed life as a professional football player, but it is only when Eden starts working for him that he realizes there is so much more to life than the way he has been living it.
Eden was raised in foster care as well and despite the experience she refuses to let it define her. She too is cautious about letting people close but once she does she is all in. The connection that she and Foster share over their pasts is everything as they feel the security to share things with each other that they have never shared before.
The experiences that Foster and Eden share will touch your heart both when it comes to the past and the present. The pacing of their relationship as it unfolded was perfect as two people who thought they were alone realize they are surrounded by love not only when it comes to each other but with the family of their hearts.
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