Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella

by Amalia Theresa, Amalia Dillin

The last thing Nic wants is to come between Will and his friends, and that means there’s one last challenge before she can fully claim her happily ever after: Kate.

While she was living in Ohio, they could all avoid whatever awkwardness might linger from Nic and Sully’s brief fling over a year ago and the friendship that followed, but now that Kate’s moving to Heron Lake to work for Will at Fowler’s, Nic is determined to clear the air between them.

But there are more tensions between Sully, Kate, and Will than just Nic’s own insertion into their long-established dynamic, and Kate has her own insecurities to face, now that she’s back among her friends.

Taking place just a few months before the epilogue of Playing it Safe, Settling Up navigates the start of a new friendship between Nic and Kate, and revisits the relationships of both Will & Nic and Kate & Sully.

105 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2022

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE this little bonus adventure between Playing It Safe and Playing House. I love the interaction between Nic and Kate, and the way they become friends after all is just so perfectly in character. Also loved the continued exploration of different kinds of long distance relationships.

Also the smut - can't forget the smut. Amalia is SERIOUSLY good at the smut. ♥

Can't wait for Winter Games!!!

[Amalia Dillin]

YES, Kate and Sully DID back me into the spanking corner YET AGAIN, but I hope you'll really enjoy this deeper look at how Nic and Kate manage to settle into a friendship together. I had so much fun writing this little novella, and seeing how these two couples figured all the accompanying awkwardness out between them.