The Rule Book

Sports agent Nora Mackenzie gets her big break when she lands NFL tight end Derek Pender as a client. There’s just one problem: Derek was the college boyfriend Nora devastated when she dumped him without explanation nearly a decade ago. Together, they come up with a list of rules to keep the past out of their professional relationship. Unfortunately, those good intentions go out the window when they wake up after a night in Vegas to find that they’ve gotten married. Instead of facing the humiliation of their drunken debacle, they decide to lean in, salvage their reputations, and pretend to be a perfectly happy couple—but is it really an act? Adams (Practice Makes Perfect) presents a heartwarming, humorous contemporary romance with a delightful deluge of tropes. Though not slated as a series, this is a companion novel to Adams’s The Cheat Sheet. Narrators Hathaway Lee and Will Damron give playful performances of this engaging enemies-to-lovers story. They expertly portray every emotion, from tender to torrid.