Penalty Kiss: A grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers, found family sports romance. (Manchester Athletic Book 1)

Name: Penalty Kiss: A grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers, found family sports romance. (Manchester Athletic Book 1)
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Rating: 4.3 (477 reviews)
Author: Annie Dyer

by Annie Dyer

Contemporary Fiction Romance

4.3 (477)

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Perfect for you if...

You love grumpy/sunshine dynamics where the tension feels earned, not forced, and both characters actually irritate each other at the start.
You're after a sports romance with real stakes beyond the love story. Dee's got her own problems brewing, and it matters.
You want found family banter alongside the romance. The Manchester Athletic team feels like people you'd actually want to know.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer slow-burn romances that take their time. This one moves at a proper pace once it gets going.
You need your bad boys to actually be reformed by page fifty. He's still messy, still cocky, still learning.
You skip anything with a 'publicity stunt' plot device at its heart. That's the actual premise here.

About this book

Dee Jones is cheerful, wholesome, and perpetually smiling—everything the protagonist is not. Manchester Athletic's management wants to pair them together to repair his public image after he was photographed in a compromising situation with another person while on holiday, following his ex's kiss-and-tell story to the media. The club believes Dee, a star player on the women's team, can help rehabilitate his reputation. However, Dee dislikes him and has her own problems to manage—complications that could jeopardize her own standing. Penalty Kiss is the first standalone novel in the Manchester Athletic series, featuring a grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers dynamic between a bad boy athlete and the woman assigned to help restore his image.

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