This is my honest and voluntary review of this ARC.
A cocky, arrogant, manwhore football player.....sums up Brady Thomas to the fullest. Brady has the nerve to be stunned when his now former agent shows up, tells him that his contract he just signed is null and void because of last nights little shenanigan involving a member of royalty. Too much booze and partying, and definitely too many women, he can't remember their names or faces from one moment to the next. The next words coming out of his now former agents mouth is who Brady has been traded to, and the new contract with the moral clause that is valid for one year. Negotiations will be made after that time. Brady is angry and worse yet begging for this to be fixed, and the realization that this is happening all because he just wants to have fun.
A young girl who watched her sister die after giving birth to Liam, taking care of Liam as his mother and raising him, twenty-four year old Isabella (known as Izzie) has never lived for herself. She now has a job as the San Antonio football's team dietician. The job of a life time for her. She is so excited until that bubble was burst within the first day on the job. HE would be joining the team. Izzie promised her sister never to tell the father of his son Liam, and Izzie has kept that promise. Run of bad luck has her seeking his assistance, and secrets have ways of being found out.
Not even trying to care, Brady makes his debut in San Antonio on the wrong foot. The coach and the manager set him straight from the start. They are not interested in his excuses or the lifestyle he wants to live. So to set that ball into motion, Brady is told to go see Izzie for his diet plan, then going over rules and regulations, guidelines, his contract, and everything else that is now on his shoulders as this team's quarterback. Izzie is nervous when he enters her office, but little by little she is able to calm herself down, to get her job done and done right. Brady tries and tries to get on her good side. There is a clause in his current contract that this is off-limits, but he tries anyways....after all this is Brady Thomas.
A termite infestation at her house sends Liam and Izzie looking for a place to stay while the exterminator gets to work. The hotels that are affordable are way less than reputable, the only option is to take Brady up on his offer to stay at his place. It is only supposed to be a week, how bad can this really be. While that week passes, Izzie and Liam and Brady form a tight bond....a bond that is prohibited with the contract. So it is done without anyone knowing. A miscommunication on the part of the exterminator reveals the time Izzie and Liam staying with Brady has increased by a few weeks. As the days they are staying in the house together, a family is being formed.
It takes an old Sports magazine for Izzie to realize all of her hopes and thoughts about Brady and the family are never going to happen. But before her dreams are completely dashed, she has given up her V-card to Brady. It wasn't supposed to happen, the time together, the feelings forming - from either of them. But it happened. One reporter spots the insta-family going into Liam's school together and poses some interesting questions, not only to the readers and fans, but to Brady. Questions asked, the truth revealed, anger and a blow out happens. Liam ad Izzie are leaving, emotions on high. Brady is still upset, but things start replaying in his head. Izzie isn't using him like all the others, she never asked for anything from him. In fact she gave him everything without expecting a thing in return. She supported him and trusted him when no one else did. The truth, yes it hurt to find out he missed so much time with Liam, but there is still time to correct that and really follow his heart.
A phone call, a surprise winning of Super Bowl tickets, then gifts show up during each quarter, and the the surprise after the win Brady helps lead his team to are all a part of a well played plan. One more question is asked of Izzie from Brady, only this time without hurt feelings and with everyone watching and hearing what he asks. It is a turn in the direction of more happiness, more surprises and a very happy ending.