Chicago Stars

A delightful romp that had me laughing out loud in places as Heath Champion and his matchmaker, Annabelle Granger, try to find him the perfect match before his 35th birthday. Is his perfect woman under his nose? How will he tell? Some totally over-the-top scenes (OTTS), but I wanted a fun read and this delivered, esp. with a couple of those OTTS. Read by Anna Fields, available from Harper Collins and Sound Library/BBC America. NFM

Blurb:

When Dean Robillard meets Blue Bailey, she couldn't be more down on her luck; her ex has stolen all her money and she's got no place to go. A football hero, Dean is taking a holiday while recovering from a career-threatening injury. He'd planned a solo road trip to get his head together. The last thing he needs is a damsel in distress tagging along for the ride. However, despite Dean's misgivings the two find themselves thrown together and soon Blue has moved into his home and is merrily turning his world upside down. Their attraction is mutual but can their relationship really survive when the only other thing they have in common is their distrust of love?

Gracie Snow, an innocent country girl, is determined to track down Bobby Tom Denton, and drag him back home to Heaven, Texas, to begin shooting his first motion picture. But taming an egotistical cowboy in a '57 T-Bird is more than Gracie's soft demeanor and heart can handle.

Molly Somerville (who we met in It Had To Be You) is all grown up and a children's book author.

The story: Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard picks up beaver-costume-wearing Blue Bailey. She needs money and a place to stay; he needs company. He takes her to her farm. There she not only meets his family but also the eccentric locals.

Phoebe Somerville has lived her life as a disappointment to her father so she fully expects to have been disinherited when he dies and that his football team, the Chicago Stars,

The Windy City isn't quite ready for Pheobe Somerville-the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Pheobe is definitely not ready for the Stars' head coach, former gridiron legend Dan Calebow, a sexy jock taskmaster with a one-track mind.

Series: Chicago Stars

Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit.