the baller a down and dirty football novel

I love the fake dating trope and Ilsa Madden-Mills serves it well with this book. There’s a mutual animosity between them as Nova calls him a “pompous jerk” and Ronan doesn’t understand why she doesn’t like him.ĭespite this, Ronan cooks up a scheme to get the Blue Belle folks off his back regarding setting him up and to help Nova face some people from her past: fake dating! When Nova and Ronan “meet” for the second time he doesn’t recognize her at all. Blue Belle will do anything to keep him and his winning record including trying to get him to settle down with a nice local girl. She’s shocked to learn that her neighbor is Ronan, now a high school football coach, much beloved and pampered by the town. She’s living in her mother’s house and is now guardian of her 15-year-old sister who is on the spectrum. Two and a half years later Nova has returned to her small Texas town of Blue Belle following the unexpected death of her mother. Ronan and Nova have a one-night stand that ends badly and she runs away. He just lost his fiancée the year before in a horrific car accident. Scarred and grieving Ronan Smith, 32 (ex-football player) is drawn to her. Nova Morgan, 29 (ex-beauty queen), crashes an end-of-season New York Python’s football celebration dressed in a full slave-Leia-from-Return of the Jedi costume. Read “Beauty and the Baller” if you like: Has this jaded beauty found her forever baller, or will his past keep them apart?īeauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Millsīeauty and the Baller Shines With Heart and Depth

But things heat up for real under these Friday-night lights when he realizes she’s the one who slipped away. His solution? He proposes fake dating to Nova. The booster club keeps shoving women at Ronan to keep him in town. Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand.įast-forward two years. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night.įormer beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. Gorgeous, talented, and brilliant, NFL quarterback Ronan Smith has the world in his hands. An NFL quarterback turned small-town coach gets sacked by a Texas beauty queen in this swoony, passionate romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills.

The baller a down and dirty football novel