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Most Valuable Playboy

A Friends to Lovers Fake Dating Sports Romance
By Lauren Blakely
Series: Ballers and Babes
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Most Valuable Playboy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely brings her quirky, hilarious voice to sexy professional football romance with a fake dating twist. "A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." - Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling author When... Read More
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Most Valuable Playboy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely brings her quirky, hilarious voice to sexy professional football romance with a fake dating twist.

"A Lauren Blakely book is a guarantee of a good time." - Meghan Quinn, USA Today bestselling author

When the hot new quarterback desperately needs a fake girlfriend, he turns to his best friend's sister, only to find that sometimes the woman for you is the one who's been by your side all along...

When I enter the Most Valuable Playboy charity auction, my goal is simple—be the player who goes for the most dough. But when trouble shows up at the auction, I need a whole new play.

Enter Violet—she's my best friend's sister and she's my close friend too. With a smile as sweet as cherry pie and a mind that runs quicker than the 40-yard-dash, Violet saves the day with the highest bid. I don't even give her a two-minute warning before I kiss her in front of the whole crowd and then announce that she's my girlfriend.

Which would be fine except my agent tells me we've got to keep up the act while he's negotiating my contract. Violet takes one for the team and pretends to be mine, and soon our boyfriend-girlfriend scrimmage quickly turns into a full contact sport.

But falling for her wasn't in the playbook...

Series: Ballers and Babes

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781464238451

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 February 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Sourcebooks Casablanca

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 248g

Pages: 352

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Contemporary Romance Fiction General Fiction Lauren Blakely Penguin Books Romance Series: Ballers and Babes Sports Romance

About the Author

A #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Audible bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's cute but spicy. Lauren likes dogs, cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.

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