He's the beast, and she's the beauty of his past.
Offsides by Jami Davenport is AVAILABLE NOW!
Blurb:
He’s the beast, and she’s the beauty of his past.
After twelve years in the league, all Zach Murphy wants is a Super Bowl ring. His focus has been on hard hits-not smooth manners; about breaking quarterbacks-not making small talk at cocktail parties. After dumping a tray of drinks on the team owner’s daughter and accidentally feeling up the governor’s 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.
Except…it’s Zach. The same guy whose broken heart she left in her wake when she was still a mean girl. He’s just the beast she remembers-but she’s 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.
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My Thoughts <3
I freaking adored this book and give it a 4 outta 5! What happens when your HS crush that was a HUGE mean girl and wrecked your entire life is thrown back into your life over a decade later? Offsides tells just that story.
Zach is a bit of an enigma. He is untamed and unapologetic about it while keeping people far, far away from being able to get to know him. Problem is he is only 1 season away from retirement and all he wants is a Super Bowl ring, too bad his QB is a pretty boy not giving it his all and the higher ups want to change him.
Kelsie has had her fall from grace. She was once on the top of the world and now she is definitely something different. When she gets the opportunity of the lifetime to start her new business, a refinery class, she is shocked that Zach the boy she was awful to back in HS is her first client.
Can these two put their differences aside to help each other? All I know is that I loved delving into this world and their lives and getting to know these characters. They are real, they are deep, and their emotions are beautiful to read about. Not to mention, these two have CRAZY hot chemistry, like really freaking hot!
If you like your books more on the gritty side, I definitely recommend checking this one out!
PS: I Received this book as an ARC but am honestly reviewing it!
About the Author & Contact Links
USA Today Bestselling Author Jami Davenport writes sexy contemporary and sports romances, including her two new indie endeavors: the Game On in Seattle Series and the Madrona Island Series. Jami’s new releases consistently rank in the top fifty on the sports romance and sports genre lists on Amazon, and she has hit the Amazon top hundred authors list in both contemporary romance and genre fiction multiple times. Jami ranked Number Seven on Kobo’s Top Ten Most Completed Authors, an honor bestowed on the year’s “most engaging” authors based on an average page completion rate by their readers.
Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland cross with a tennis ball fetish, a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat, and an opinionated Hanoverian mare.
Jami works in IT for her day job and is a former high school business teacher. She’s a lifetime Seahawks and Mariners fan and is waiting for the day professional hockey comes to Seattle. An avid boater, Jami has spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books. In her opinion, it’s the most beautiful place on earth.