Wilson revisits the football theme of #Awestruck in a clunky redemption story with appealing but stereotyped characters. Texas quarterback Logan Hunt has a plan to escape from poverty via college football, but he-s almost thwarted by his anger issues. He ends up on the team of Seattle-s Edwin O-Leary College, where Coach Oakley-s rules include no drinking, no swearing, and no dating. Logan tries to channel his interest in his math tutor, Jess, who is also the coach-s daughter, into assisting her in winning the attention of her crush, Ben, away from her enemy, cheerleader Danielle. Logan and Jess try to maintain a strictly platonic relationship, but their chemistry and growing mutual trust make it increasingly difficult to adhere to the rules. Subplots involving sexual assault are handled in a vague fashion and fail to build reader empathy. Though it-s set on a college campus, the book-s petty social dynamics, parent-centered barriers, and lack of sexual intimacy give it a high school aesthetic that is unlikely to appeal to adult romance readers. (June)

For Logan Hunt, Edwin O'Leary College really is the end of the line. After some trouble with anger-management issues, aka a bar fight, cost Logan his football scholarship at Texas F & T, the chance to play football at EOL with Coach Stan Oakley is the only thing standing between Logan's dream of earning a degree and becoming a teacher, and being stuck working dead-end construction jobs for the rest of his life. Even though Coach Oakley has some firm rules for all his players, including one about no serious fraternizing with females during the school year, Logan is determined to do whatever it takes to stay in school. So when Logan begins falling for Jess Oakley, the coach's daughter of all people, he vows that any romantic passes he might be tempted to throw her way will all have to be incompletes. Wilson (onstruck, 2018) scores a touchdown with this engaging contemporary romance that delivers plenty of electric sexual chemistry and zingy banter while still being romantically sweet at its core.