I’m the star quarterback. Top of my game, top of the class. People know my name before I even say a word. But Melinda Shepard? She sees straight through all of it—and she always has.
She’s brilliant, focused, impossible to ignore... and totally uninterested in the spotlight I live in. Years ago, we were almost something, before everything got complicated. I thought I moved on—until one night brings us crashing back into each other’s orbit.
When she needs help, I’m there. No hesitation. And just like that, I’m falling all over again. But Melinda’s guarding something—something she won’t let me in on. And the closer we get, the more I wonder if we’re chasing something real, or just trying not to break.
One thing’s for sure: this isn’t the game I trained for.
It’s harder. Riskier.
And I’ve never wanted to win so badly.
🏈 opposites attract
🏈 high school quarterback
🏈 athlete FMC (swimming)
🏈 touch her and d!e
🏈 he falls first
🏈 childhood friends to enemies to it's complicated
🏈 mental health rep
Kickoff is perfect for fans of football, romance, high school, college, teenagers, Young adult, YA, coming of age, body image issues, eating disorder issues, small town, LA Cotton, Jillian Dodd, Sarah Adams, Elle Kennedy, Erin Watt, Gracie Grahams, Jenny Han, Lynn Painter, Kasie West, emotional love stories, realistic story line, childhood best friends, enemies to lovers, friendship, family, swimming, sports romance, contemporary fiction, novels, Nicholas Sparks.
Soulfully Beautiful Love Stories
USA Today Bestselling Author Emmanuelle Snow is a contemporary author of mature YA and women's fiction love stories, who gives life to strong characters who’ll fight with all they have to reach their life goals and find their own happiness. She loves her characters to be relatable and realistic.
She writes soulmates emotional romance that should be read with a box of tissues. Or two.
You’ll want to be best friends with her heroines and have her heroes rock your bed and take hostage your heart.
Emmanuelle is in love with love. Especially complicated, deep, and passionate feelings that make a relationship extraordinary and complex all at the same time.
In her spare time, when she’s not writing or reading, she likes to go on road trips—with her four kids and her own soulmate—watch movies, paint, or do some DIY, always with a cup of green tea in her hand and listening to country music.
She splits her time between beautiful Canada and the small US towns she adores.