
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Age Gap
Coming Out
Dating Disaster
Family Relationships
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Nerdy / Geeky
Opposites Attract
Self-Discovery
Sports
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Accountant / CFO
Athlete / Coach
STEM Profession / Scientist
Student
Geographic Location:
United States: South
United States: West Coast
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Bakery / Sweet Shop / Cafe
Big City / Urban
Sports Stadium / Gym
Suburban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Protagonist Identity:
Black / African American
Trigger/Content Warning:
memories of traumatic childhood bullying
Simply Connected
The For the Love of the Game Series, Book 1
By Alex Washoe
Love is the hardest equation to solve.
Once a celebrated child prodigy, Blaise Noether is now a struggling widowed mom trying to keep her head above water while she pursues her Ph.D. Only two things make her really angry: her kid’s math textbooks and jocks. In her mind, all athletes are like the bullies who terrorized her in high school. So when she crosses paths with rising basketball star Christie Dillard, Blaise’s interest is a null set. Christie is everything Blaise fears, fiercely competitive, brashly confident, and totally devoted to her game. That she is also endearingly awkward and irresistibly gorgeous is irrelevant data. But when Blaise glimpses a paradigm-shifting epiphany in the geometry of Christie’s jump shot, she begins to suspect this jock might be the missing variable that could balance the equation of her life.