Playing for Keeps: A Gay Love Story

by Morgan Reilly

Taylor Wyatt, the smoking hot star of the local football team, has just won a major championship, and he's about to be signed professionally. When he hits the club with the intention of finding someone to have a passionate, celebratory night with, he doesn't expect to find himself falling into bed with a man for the first time.

Zach Smythe is way too busy studying to be a nurse to find love. And after his last relationship ended with a restraining order against his ex, he's definitely not in any rush to find anything long-term. But there's nothing wrong with a one-night stand during Spring Break to blow off some steam, right?

It was just supposed to be one night of no-strings-attached passion. But the strings get tangled when a few weeks later Zach finds himself inadvertedly adopting a baby fathered by Taylor - who was never told about the baby. Thinking it would be best for the baby, Zach raises Ethan as his own, unwilling to tell Taylor about him and unable to contact him even if he wanted to.

When a car accident brings the two men together once more a few years later, their lives have changed. Taylor's a football superstar, and Zach's a single dad, but that doesn't stop the sparks from flying between the two men once more. Afraid to trust another man too quickly after his previous boyfriend became abusive, Zach is reluctant to open up completely and tell Taylor about the baby. But when Taylor finds out anyway, he's devastated that Zach would hide something like that from him.

Can the two men overcome their pasts and come together to give baby Ethan the family both men secretly desire?

Playing for Keeps is a steamy, stand-alone, gay for you novel with no cheating, no cliffhanger and a HEA ending.

Genres: Sports, Gay, M M Romance

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2017

Reviews

[BWT · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 40%

I knew this was going to be a train wreck, but I was hoping it would at least be an entertaining one.

Alas, no.

Obviously was M/F and edited (badly) to become M/M.

Just badly done all around. I couldn't bring myself to continue.

[Elizabeth · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like this one. The book needed better editing and also the story is completely unbelievable. There is some much wrong here. This book was definitely and M/F book to start with and I think at the last minute someone said Hey I know, Lets make both characters Male! It totally did not work like at all with a cherry on top. Almost a DNF but I hate to do that so I pushed on. The child situation in this book is just ridiculous, RIDUCULOUS I tell you. Not a good one for me.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute read...however, some things one can not ignore: mixing up the pronouns of the male MC's. Once was ok, two times maybe; but the whole book has these issues..very off putting....at the end "her" was making the book almost the DFN but I read on. it was good but I wondered was this a female/male book at the start and changed it over to male? See I am writing on the issue of the pronoun's rather than the actual story? That was how many. The story was cute; Zack and Taylor hooked up once, both went separate ways, found a child about to be given up at the hospital because she could not take care of him ; Zack, instantly recognized the child was Taylor's and vowed to keep the child with out telling Taylor. A lot of issued with this book; but the main one was the use of the mixing of the pronouns. I would say others, but do not want spoil the rest of the book. Where was the proof reader?

[Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 stars

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was ok but there were too many typos and I got the feeling they just did a find / replace for the Hers to Hims and a girls name with a boys name. It didn't feel like a gay love story.

[Samantha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bad Substitute

I really disliked the errors throughout the book from the original m/f storyline. It just made for a jumbled mess that could've been done with a good editing.

[Alex · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ridiculous

[StoneWolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few issues...

I loved the story and the characters, but there were a few glaring issues. Like lots of her, hers, and she, while referring to one of the main male characters. It happened repeatedly in the same paragraph at one point and really through my brain out of the story. I had to actively go back and reread it with the proper terms in mind to get back into it... And then it kept happening anytime you really get into it...
Its one thing when a female friend refers to her gay best friend as a 'girlfriend', but when the character himself is thinking about himself in terms of 'her this' and 'she that' its really off putting...

[William · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book must have originally been a m/f story and was VERY badly edited into a m/m story. I can't help wonder if this book was ripped off from another author. Entire scenes in the book were written for a female MC. Almost every chapter has incorrect female pronouns. Did not finish the book!

[Hadis]

no no no way :(
I can't tell read m/f or m/m!
VERY badly edited with incorrect female pronouns.You believe zach is male but you read several times in each chaper "she", "she" and "she"
just so f***ing waste my time

[Cee Brown]

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[XI · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good but could have been better if they had edited it more closely!

I agree it was an M/F book before, there were laring error but you could kinda just read em right mentally!

- the first time since giving birth. (Seeing as it wasn't MPREG and he didn't and cant give birth uhh!)
- was the fact that I was simply too busy being a nurse and a mother (I think they meant father)
- After overcoming the stigma of being a single mom (UHHHHN)
- He really must have been some kind of superwoman

THESE WERE THE MOST OOBVIOUS M/F TO M/M FAILS