

Next thing I knew, I was learning a sport I knew nothing about by spending time with the team’s quarterback who was out with an injury, a man who my formula would definitely determine was all wrong for me.Ĭhristian Knox was too handsome and confident for his own good and could have any woman he wanted. That something turned out to be part ownership in a professional football team. I spent twelve hours writing algorithms for one of the largest companies in the world and then came home to work on a pet project of mine-feeding facts about the men I knew into a formula to find my perfect match before my twenties came barreling to a close.īut then a man knocked on my door and handed me some papers that turned my life upside down.Īpparently, a father I never knew existed had left me something in his will. I just had no idea where this one was going to land.New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland returns with a steamy sports/office romance standalone Playing For Keeps Novel,

Getting involved with the boss wasn’t the smartest choice.īut you know what they say about choices: Some we regret, some we are proud of. What I wasn’t prepared for was that there would be other things I’d enjoy doing to Merrick Crawford. It was a little thing I dubbed the boss project. But I figured maybe I’d enjoy proving him wrong. I didn’t really want to work in a place where my boss expected me to fail. It seemed his board was making him fill the position, against his wishes. Turned out, Merrick only wanted to hire me because I was the least competent candidate. I needed to know why I was even in consideration after our disastrous start. But somehow an invitation to a second interview arrived in my inbox.īefore I left, I asked to see Merrick. I obviously didn’t expect to get the job. In my defense, I’d been stuck on a hot train for two hours and wanted to make sure I didn’t smell.

Okay, so maybe I hadn’t exactly been changing when he walked in on me. Or so I thought… Until we wound up bickering again during my interview and he told me to go sniff my armpit. After an argument while standing in my bra, I proceeded to smash the door into the gorgeous jerk, trying to yank it shut.Īs you might imagine, I was freaked out when I discovered that the rude guy was my potential new boss. Well, technically, I’d met him twenty minutes earlier when he’d barged into a fitting room a few doors down from my appointment. The first time I met Merrick Crawford was during my job interview.
