Showing results for "the-field" in Contemporary

Durham University have the best women’s football team in the League and their star striker Sadie McGrath hopes that winning this year might lead her to being picked up by one of the National Teams. The male team is much less impressive – they’ve never won the league and are facing relegation unless they can improve by the end of the season. But now the unthinkable has been asked of Sadie; to train the cocky, new male striker who has just moved over from the US. Arlo Hudson is a know-it-all who refuses to follow direction, and argues with her every lesson.

High school quarterback and town golden boy Brady used to be the best of friends with Willa - she even had a crush on him when they were kids. But that's all changed now: Her life choices have made her a different person from the girl he used to know. Gunner used to be friends with Willa and Brady, too. He, too, is larger than life and a high school football star - not to mention that his family basically owns the town of Lawton. He loves his life and doesn't care about anyone except himself. But Willa is the exception.

Two years ago Riley Young fled from Lawton, Alabama. After accusing the oldest Lawton son, Rhett, of rape, everyone called her a liar, and she had no option but to leave. Now she's back, but she's not at Lawton High finishing up her senior year. She's at home raising the little girl that no one believed was Rhett's.

Trendgenre Sports-Romance, leichtherzig und auf den Punkt erzählt von der unverwechselbaren Katy Birchall unter dem Pseudonym Ivy Bailey. Sadie hat nur ein Ziel: Sie will ihre Fußballmannschaft zur dritten Meisterschaft der Uni-Liga führen und ihren an Demenz erkrankten Vater damit stolz machen! Da kann sie Ablenkungen überhaupt nicht gebrauchen – erst recht nicht in Form des charmanten und unverschämt attraktiven Arlo Hudsons. Doch als der Trainer sie zum gemeinsamen Einzeltraining mit Arlo verdonnert, merkt Sadie schnell, dass das Herz nicht immer tut, was der Kopf ihm sagt.

At 16, Finley Rhodes had grown up fast, having the responsibility of taking care of her mentally ill mother, holding down a job to pay the bills, and dropping out of school to do both. When her case manager tells her she's being placed in foster care, Finley never expected her new home to be in the exclusive gated community, and she certainly never thought she'd attend The Academy, a school for the privileged and elite. But the biggest surprise comes from down the hall. Her new foster brother, Chase Powell.