Playing Hard to Get (The Players #1)
Monica Murphy
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
3.65
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 68 ratings · 402 pages · Published: 01 Dec 2022

Star offensive tight end on the football team.
He is the complete opposite of me in every way.
I'm quiet. He's loud.
I'm shy. He's definitely not.
Everyone loves him. No one knows me.
Fresh out of a breakup, I don't really trust him, and why should I? Knox is the ultimate player. When I become his English tutor, I tell myself we need to keep things between us strictly business. Watching my mother deal with my ex-athlete father long, long ago taught me to stay far away from that type of man.
Yet Knox is impossible to resist. Next thing I know, we're getting hot and heavy in the library—and that was never part of the plan. When Knox admits he can't stop thinking about me, I have a realization.
I can't stop thinking about him either.
Instead of keeping my distance, I pull him in closer. Until somehow, we're spending all of our time together and I find myself falling for Knox. Hard.
Will this actually work between us? Or am I getting played?
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- college 4
- sports 4
- friends to lovers 4
- contemporary 4
- athlete hero 4
- forced proximity 4
- new adult 3
- alpha male 3
- young adult 3
- football 3
- angst 2
- enemies to lovers 2
- m-f romance 2
- friends with benefits 1
- found family 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- independent heroine 1
- competent heroine 1
- sunny/happy hero 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
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The 'The Players' series
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explicit-open-door · audiobook · m-f · new adult · sports · length-long · forced proximity · football · athletes · young adult · contemporary · friends-benefits · college · dual-pov · friends to lovers
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