Hard to Hold by K. Bromberg Series: Play Hard #2
Published by JKB Publishing LLC on December 1, 2020
Pages: 308
Genres: Romance, Sports Romance
The contract with Major League Soccer was supposed to help repair my damaged reputation.
Then I discovered that I’d made a deal with the devil: the player I’m supposed to recruit is none other than the bad boy, star Premier League footballer, Rush McKenzie.
British. Tattooed. Sexy. A man currently at the center of a huge scandal.
The goal? To convince him to stay in the States.
But what’s wrong with a little fun in the meantime? No strings. No sweet nothings. Just a way to pass the time while we’re both struggling to prove our true selves to the world.
If someone found out our relationship was anything more than professional, it would only serve to prove all our critics right.
***I never should have agreed to take the fall.
But I did and I’m a man of my word.
Even if it means risking everything I’ve worked for.
The only bright side is Lennox Kincade.
Gorgeous. Defiant. Rumor-tainted. Totally off-limits.
Sharing a house with the gorgeous sports agent should have been a fun distraction from the turmoil. Someone to help pass the time while the tensions back home die down.
But what started as nothing, ends up as something I never saw coming.
Hard to Hold is another feather in the cap for K. Bromberg’s Play Hard series. I love strong women, and these stories about four sisters running their family’s sports management firm hit the spot.
Lennox is determined to succeed in a male-dominated industry, but things are made more difficult by her beauty pageant good looks and a nasty rumor that she sleeps with clients in order to sign them. When life gets overwhelming, Lennox’s wanderlust kicks in. This time she heads off to stay with a friend in California. Rush is a British star footballer who is trying to escape a scandal by running away to the same friend’s home in California. The rest, as they say, is history.
I absolutely loved Rush. He’s a genuinely nice, self-made man who comes from a dismal past. I respected his sense of honor and I admired Lennox’s integrity and her brains. There really isn’t any drama between the couple which is a nice change. There’s really good chemistry between them, even with the fade-to-black bedroom scenes.
We get to see more interactions between the sisters, which was something I sorely missed in the first book. I also really enjoyed the moments shared between Lennox and her dad. He knows her so well and loves her unconditionally. I wonder which sister will be next to find love.
Recommended for fans of:
Soccer (aka football)
Fun in the sun
Sports romance
About K. Bromberg
New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary romance novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines and damaged heroes who we love to hate but can’t help to love.
A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow and her mind scattered in too many different directions.
Since publishing her first book on a whim in 2013, Kristy has sold over one and a half million copies of her books across eighteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over thirty times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by the streaming platform, Passionflix, with the first movie (Driven) out now.
With her imagination always in overdrive, she is currently scheming, plotting, and swooning over her latest hero. You can find out more about him or chat with Kristy on any of her social media accounts.
This is a series I want to read! I’m so happy you reviewed it. It sounds like it is a series that gets better as it goes along.