A soccer star and a kind-hearted artist find themselves on the same team, but love is a game they never planned on playing.Lucy Martin left her small hometown behind after her divorce. Now she's back, caring for her soccer-crazed nephew while his parents are deployed. She'd do anything to make him happy—including approaching her high school crush and current soccer superstar, Ryker James, for a favor.Nursing an injury, Ryker is laying low at his parents' house until he can rejoin his club and prove he has reformed his bad boy ways. When the sister of an old friend asks him to coach her nephew's soccer team, he should decline. But Lucy intrigues him, and he finds himself unable to disappoint her.Coaching forces them together and sparks fly—on and off the field. Lucy is wary of romance, and Ryker can’t afford a distraction. Before the final whistle blows, will they take a shot at love or forfeit the match?

The Soccer Star

EPILOGUE








CHAPTER NINE
While Lucy tucked Connor into bed again, Ryker stared at the framed photographs sitting on the fireplace mantel. Each picture showed a different stage in Aaron’s life—army, marriage, family, college graduation. Those things were as foreign to Ryker as a three-hundred-poun...








CHAPTER NINE
While Lucy tucked Connor into bed again, Ryker stared at the framed photographs sitting on the fireplace mantel. Each picture showed a different stage in Aaron’s life—army, marriage, family, college graduation. Those things were as foreign to Ryker as a three-hundred-poun...