It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Phoebe Somerville, the flamboyant, curvy New York stunner who recently inherited the Chicago Stars football team, isn’t quite ready for the Windy City. Dan Celebow, the Stars’ head coach and a misogynistic jock taskmaster with a single-track mind, is another opponent Phoebe is unprepared to face. Celebow represents all that Phoebe despises. Furthermore, the attractive new boss is everything Dan detests: a meddling bimbo who doesn’t know a pitcher’s mound from a pigskin.
So why does he have a heat-seeking missile-like attraction to the sleazy sexpot? And why does cosmopolitan Phoebe feel uncomfortable, tongue-tied, and ready to fight because of the coach’s good ol’ boy charm?
It Had To Be You is the erotic, uplifting, and humorous “prequel” to Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ stunning best-selling blockbuster This Heart of Mine. It is a charming tale of two obstinate individuals who think in playing for keeps.
It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
79 used from $3.24
Free shipping
Amazon.com
Phoebe Somerville, a Manhattan bombshell, inherits control of the Chicago Stars football team thanks to an unexpected change to her father’s will. A cruel, controlling codicil offers her one season to win the AFC Championship and demands she quit being such an unrelieved screw-up. She had assumed she had been long since disinherited and was overjoyed by the will, believing it as evidence that her father had not abandoned her after all. If she fails, her sleazy bastard cousin—a man who made Phoebe’s life miserable as a child—will take over the team.
She dismisses the idea and leaves for vacation, immersing herself in the art world to which she had escaped when her father had betrayed her in the worst way years earlier. She refuses to yield to her father’s machinations, even in death.
But she hadn’t expected to see the Stars’ head coach in her living room just a few days after her return. She becomes anxious with Dan Calebow and loses her renowned composure. She feels strange things in her stomach when she sees him because he is big, imposing, and forbidding. On the other hand, his patronizing mockery causes something quite different to happen to her temper.
Phoebe Somerville was very attractive, but she was also the biggest bimbo he’s ever encountered. It’s unfortunate that she was officially his boss but was such a useless owner. He didn’t have time to play her games because he had a team to manage and players with unsigned contracts. She had to return to Chicago right away, for him. Once there, he could make her into a mindless figurehead and resume his beloved work…
