The Right Move

The Right Move

Author: Liz Tomforde

Genre: Sports Romance / Contemporary Romance

Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10

Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5

Description

Ryan Shay has always been known for one thing: discipline.

As the newly appointed captain of Chicago’s NBA team, the Devils, Ryan is focused, controlled, and completely devoted to basketball. His reputation as a quiet, intense loner might make him a great leader on the court—but it’s becoming a problem for his career.

According to the team’s General Manager, Ryan needs to show he has a life outside of basketball.

Unfortunately, that life suddenly includes Indy Ivers.

Indy is his sister’s best friend—and now his unexpected roommate. She’s everything Ryan isn’t: expressive, emotional, chaotic, and impossible to ignore. Living together is already testing his patience, but when Ryan needs to prove he’s capable of having a healthy personal life, he comes up with a solution.

They’ll fake date.

For Indy, the arrangement seems simple enough. Pretend to be Ryan’s girlfriend, help him look more approachable, and keep their living situation from becoming unbearable.

But the longer they keep up the act, the harder it becomes to remember it’s all supposed to be fake.

Because the chemistry between them feels very real.

And falling for her best friend’s brother was never supposed to be part of the deal.

Tropes / Mood

Fake dating • forced proximity • brother’s best friend • sports romance • grumpy × sunshine • roommates to lovers • slow burn romance • protective MMC

Series Reading Order (Windy City)

1. Mile High

2. The Right Move

3. Caught Up

4. Play Along