The Long Game (The Long Game #1)
Elena Armas
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 91 ratings · 380 pages · Published: 05 Sep 2023

Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat.
But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team’s mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team’s owner—who happens to be her father—sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere North Carolina, where she’s tasked with turning around the struggling local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her plans crumble upon discovering that the players wear tutus to practice (impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and are terrified of Adalyn (counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids.
To make things worse, also in town is Cameron Caldani, goalkeeping prodigy whose presence is somewhat of a mystery. Cam is the perfect candidate to help Adalyn, but after one very unfortunate first encounter involving a rooster, Cam’s leg, and Adalyn’s bumper, he’s also set on running her out of town. But banishment is not an option for Adalyn. Not again. Helping this ragtag children’s team is her road to redemption, and she is playing the long game. With or without Cam’s help.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 7
- forced proximity 6
- multicultural 6
- sports 5
- enemies to lovers 5
- athlete hero 5
- small town 5
- latinx mc 5
- soccer 5
- workplace/office 4
- grumpy/ice queen 4
- dual pov 3
- funny 3
- m-f romance 2
- take-charge heroine 2
- white collar heroine 2
- new adult 1
- slow burn 1
- rich heroine 1
- Add topics
- geography
- usa 3
- north carolina 3
- north america 1
- content warnings
- mental illness 1
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The 'The Long Game' series
145 ratings 3.59 ·
usa · m-f · explicit-open-door · humor · slow burn · north-carolina · contemporary · strong heroine · small town · forced proximity · cold heroine · athletes · insta-love · dual-pov · sunny hero · possessive hero · death · slut-shaming · career professional · from hate to love
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