Playing to Win by Monica Murphy is now live!
Ready to fall for the ultimate player? Check out the latest sports romance by New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy…
Ace Townsend is the biggest player on campus.
The sexy new quarterback on the football team.
I should probably mention he’s also a complete flirt. The life of the party wherever he goes.
Someone I should avoid at all costs.
It’s difficult though, when I’m on the social media crew for the football team and we’re out on the field during practice almost every day, filming them. On the sidelines at games. Hanging out with them at bars. The more I spend time with Ace, the more I’m drawn to him. The attraction is there, but it’s more than that. I actually like him. We have a connection, and he definitely feels it too. The problem?
I signed a contract when I started on the social media team with a ‘no dating athletes’ clause. They’re strictly off limits. If we get caught together? It’s cause for my immediate termination. I love my new job and don’t want to risk it, but I’m falling for Ace.
Hard.
We’re all for sneaking around and keeping our growing relationship secret, but it’s starting to wear on us. Ace is determined to win me at all costs, though he doesn’t want to be the reason I lose my job, but…
Maybe the two of us being together is worth the risk.
Christie’s Review
I have been waiting as patiently as I could for Ace’s story, and it was so well worth the wait. This book exceeded all my expectations!!!
I loved both Ruby and Ace. They were so great together, and the sparks flew from their very first meeting! Ruby knows what a flirt and player he is, and Ace doesn’t do relationships, yet they feel this pull toward one another. She brings a calmness to him, and they would make an awesome couple, but Ruby has her back against the wall since she signed a contract when she was hired as part of the social media crew that she wouldn’t date any athlete. She knows what she needs to do, but spending time with Ace and resisting him is getting harder and harder to do!
Ruby was a great character, and she was very realistic. She was a typical college-aged girl even though she was born into a football dynasty. She wasn’t spoiled and expected no special treatment because of who she was. In fact, she had insecurities. She wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life and had changed her major a couple of times. She was looking for purpose, and she found it when she became part of a social media team that highlighted football players. Even in her personal life, she wasn’t sure where she was headed with Ace. She knew she was falling for him, but she also knew he had the power to break her.
I adored Ace, but I have been in love with Ace for a long time. I felt like I got to know him in previous books. He was such a player, but he was so likable, not a jerk at all. He was a caring individual, and the more involved with Ruby he got, that became evident. Like Ruby, he had doubts. He had big shoes to fill as a quarterback, and I liked that Murphy showed that vulnerable side to him. At times, I kind of felt sorry for him. He had a fan club, and people sometimes didn’t understand he was just a person who wanted to just be Ace, not Ace the football star. He also had some insecurities about Ruby as he was falling more in love with her.
I have loved all of the books in this series, but I have to agree with Monica Murphy when she says in her Acknowledgments at the end of the book that Ace was one of her all-time characters that she has written. I couldn’t help but fall in love with him….he was so lovable and likable. As with all previous books in the series, I have enjoyed the secondary characters that Murphy created, especially Natalie and Derek. As always, we see little glimpses of characters from earlier books. That always makes me feel like I’m catching up with old friends. I have been reading the Callahan/Maguire series since the very beginning, and I hope this isn’t the end of this family. I hope we hear more from them in the future. Until then, thank you Monica Murphy for giving us such wonderful books and incredible characters.
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Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance. She’s also known as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.
A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, two kids, one dog, and four cats. When she’s not writing, she’s an assistant coach for her daughter’s high school cheer team, which is a two season sport. Meaning, she’s at practice with a bunch of teenage girls all the time. Or she’s at a football game. Or a basketball game. Maybe someday, she’ll even write about this experience.
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