Lavender and Linebackers (Tampa Tarpons Football #3)

Lavender and Linebackers is a contemporary sports romance about a rookie linebacker and a professional cheerleader, once childhood best friends and now enemies, who are forced to work together on a major marketing campaign despite a rule forbidding them from being together.

When fate forces time with the enemy . . . tackle it.

Ryder Monroe Alice Monarch is my biggest regret. My childhood best friend turned enemy. I knew there was a possibility I’d see her.

I just never imagined it would be on day one of my rookie season as a linebacker for the Tampa Tarpons. I’m a football player. She’s a cheerleader. There’s a reason the handbook strictly forbids it.

What I never saw coming was the organization pairing us together for a major marketing campaign. Saying no isn’t an option. It’s in my contract that I’m required to say yes.

Now I’m stuck with her for months, representing the Tarpons around town. I hate her, and she hates me. The only problem? I can’t stop looking at her.

She’s smart, kind, even more beautiful than I remember, and the more time I spend with her, the harder it becomes to understand why I let her go.

Alice Monarch The rules are in place for a reason. Football players and cheerleaders are off-limits. For years, I’ve compared every man I’ve ever met to Ryder Monroe.

He was my first love, my best friend, and the one person I never imagined living without. Until he ruined us, left town, and ghosted me. Now, years later, we’re being thrown back together.

Okay, “forced” isn’t entirely accurate. I chose this because the Tarpons agreed to sponsor my youth cheer team, the Mighty Monarchs.

This team is my everything. I’d do anything for them. Even work side by side with the man who broke my heart.

It doesn’t matter that Ryder still has the most irresistible smile I’ve ever seen or that he can still make my heart race. My career and sponsorship are on the line. The only problem?

The more time I spend with him, the harder it becomes to remember why I swore I’d never forgive him.