About This Book
Briar U's most notorious bad girl has a problem: she needs a fake boyfriend, and the only candidate is the infuriatingly attractive star forward from Harvard's rival team. For Brenna Jensen — daughter of Briar's head coach — getting caught with Jake Connelly would be social suicide. But he's the key to the internship she's worked toward, and he knows it. His terms? Every fake date she needs comes with a real one in return. What starts as a calculated arrangement quickly becomes something neither of them planned for, and the closer they get to what they actually want, the higher the stakes become.
Kennedy writes enemies-to-lovers with a confidence that makes the formula feel genuinely fresh. Brenna is the rare romance heroine who is sharp-tongued without being cartoonish, and the push-pull with Jake crackles because both characters are equally matched in wit and stubbornness. The banter moves fast, the emotional undercurrent runs deeper than it first appears, and Kennedy earns the slow-burn payoff rather than rushing it. Readers who love sports romance will find this one lands harder than most — the chemistry is real, and so is the cost of wanting someone you're not supposed to have.
