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    Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella: Playing to Win, #2.5
    Playing to Win: Playing to Win, #1
    Ebook series2 titles

    Playing to Win Series

    By Amalia Theresa and Amalia Dillin

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    About this series

    A heartwarming return to Heron Lake, Winter Games is book four in the scorchingly hot romantic comedy series, Playing to Win, taking place just a few months after Playing House.

     

     With Abe and Violet's engagement uniting the Fowler and O'Sullivan families, Kate and Sully and Nic and Will are coming home for the holidays to new dynamics they didn't exactly anticipate. Starting with Violet's plot to host them all under her own roof in the lead-up to Christmas Eve in order to give her new sister-in-law Nicole the pagan Solstice celebration she deserves.

     

     But big holidays are never easy: Will and Violet's dad is still holding a grudge against Nicole for stealing his son away from Fowler's and their mom is strong-arming Violet over where she spends Christmas going forward; Will isn't quite sure how to feel about his sister's sudden engagement to his best friend's big brother after missing the entire lead-up of their whirlwind romance and is starting to regret his big cross-country move; and nearly four years into their marriage with no plans for grandchildren, Kate still struggles to feel like she belongs among the close-knit O'Sullivans—especially now that Violet's marrying in—even while Abe faces the limitations of his injury and what that means for his participation in family events.

     

     One thing's for sure: there's no shortage of emotional overwhelm to go around this holiday season, but if Violet has anything to say about it, there's going to be even more love.

     

     Fans of Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze and Wild Nights series will love this sexy warm hug of a holiday reunion, bringing all three Playing to Win couples together again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThorskona Books
    Release dateFeb 13, 2020
    Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella: Playing to Win, #2.5
    Playing to Win: Playing to Win, #1

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      Playing to Win: Playing to Win, #1
      Playing to Win: Playing to Win, #1

      Playing to Win: Playing to Win, #1

      Amalia Theresa
      5/5 - 4 ratings
      5/5 - 4 ratings

       When dating is a lottery, you have to play to win.  Best friends since Freshman year at Midwestern State University, Sully and Kate have been playing, and losing, the dating game for four long years, comparing notes along the way. Kate is sure that personality trumps all, and Sully refuses to settle for anything less than perfect chemistry, but they're both determined to find The One. Finally, after graduation, it looks like they might have landed their winning tickets—there's just one problem: it turns out, after years living as strictly platonic roommates, sparks have begun to fly at home.  But Kate needs her best friend—Sully is the only safety net she has left. Add in the stress of figuring out her life plan post-college, a hot mess of a family situation threatening to suck her back in, and the fear of not living up to Sully's super high bar for sexual chemistry, and feelings or not, kissing that frog might be too big of a risk.  Either way, the rules of the game they've been playing have changed. And Kate and Sully are rapidly approaching a crisis their friendship might not survive. Not unless they're willing to go all in.  For fans of Christina Lauren's Wild Nights and Cora Carmack's Rusk University series, Playing to Win is the first book in a scorchingly hot contemporary romance series from the author of Daughter of a Thousand Years and From Asgard, With Love.

       When dating is a lottery, you have to play to win.  Best friends since Freshman year at Midwestern State University, Sully and Kate have been playing, and losing, the dating game for four long years, comparing notes along the way. Kate is sure that personality trumps all, and Sully refuses to settle for anything less than perfect chemistry, but they're both determined to find The One. Finally, after graduation, it looks like they might have landed their winning tickets—there's just one problem: it turns out, after years living as strictly platonic roommates, sparks have begun to fly at home.  But Kate needs her best friend—Sully is the only safety net she has left. Add in the stress of figuring out her life plan post-college, a hot mess of a family situation threatening to suck her back in, and the fear of not living up to Sully's super high bar for sexual chemistry, and feelings or not, kissing that frog might be too big of a risk.  Either way, the rules of the game they've been playing have changed. And Kate and Sully are rapidly approaching a crisis their friendship might not survive. Not unless they're willing to go all in.  For fans of Christina Lauren's Wild Nights and Cora Carmack's Rusk University series, Playing to Win is the first book in a scorchingly hot contemporary romance series from the author of Daughter of a Thousand Years and From Asgard, With Love.

    • 2

      Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella: Playing to Win, #2.5
      Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella: Playing to Win, #2.5

      Settling Up: A Playing to Win Novella: Playing to Win, #2.5

      Amalia Theresa
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

       The last thing Nic wants is to come between Will and his friends, which means there's one last challenge before she can fully claim her happily ever after: Kate.  While she was living in Ohio, they could all avoid whatever awkwardness might linger from Nic and Sully's brief fling over a year ago and the friendship that followed, but now that Kate's moving to Heron Lake to work for Will at Fowler's, Nic is determined to clear the air between them.    But there are more tensions between Sully, Kate, and Will than just Nic's own insertion into their long-established dynamic, and Kate has her own insecurities to face, now that she's back among her friends.  Taking place just a few months before the epilogue of Playing it Safe, Settling Up navigates the start of a new friendship between Nic and Kate, and revisits the relationships of both Will & Nic and Kate & Sully.  Fans of Christina Lauren's Wild Nights and Beautiful series and Cora Carmack's Rusk University will enjoy this return to the ultra-sexy contemporary romance series, Playing to Win. (Visit my author website for content warnings.)

       The last thing Nic wants is to come between Will and his friends, which means there's one last challenge before she can fully claim her happily ever after: Kate.  While she was living in Ohio, they could all avoid whatever awkwardness might linger from Nic and Sully's brief fling over a year ago and the friendship that followed, but now that Kate's moving to Heron Lake to work for Will at Fowler's, Nic is determined to clear the air between them.    But there are more tensions between Sully, Kate, and Will than just Nic's own insertion into their long-established dynamic, and Kate has her own insecurities to face, now that she's back among her friends.  Taking place just a few months before the epilogue of Playing it Safe, Settling Up navigates the start of a new friendship between Nic and Kate, and revisits the relationships of both Will & Nic and Kate & Sully.  Fans of Christina Lauren's Wild Nights and Beautiful series and Cora Carmack's Rusk University will enjoy this return to the ultra-sexy contemporary romance series, Playing to Win. (Visit my author website for content warnings.)

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