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Playing For Keeps
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Playing For Keeps
228 pages · First published 2015
A competitive athlete accustomed to treating the game as the clearest part of life discovers that relationships do not respond to practice, strategy, or sheer determination in the same predictable way. A developing romance threatens the emotional balance that has kept sports, friendship, and future plans neatly separated. The hero and heroine must decide whether protecting themselves is worth losing a relationship that increasingly matters off the field as much as any result on it. Ranee S. Clark’s clean sports romance combines competitive drive, friendship, and commitment in a story about learning when something important is worth playing for keeps.
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Past romantic heartbreak; college-football pressure; dating and jealousy; clean romantic attraction and kissing-level affection.
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