Molly Somerville (who we met in It Had To Be You) is all grown up and a children's book author. She had inherited $15 mil from her father (who left her older sister Phoebe the Chicago Stars football team) but she gave it all away and survives just on her book sales. She's not so into sports and isn't involved with the family football business but her sister keeps her up to date and she's managed to develop a crush on quarterback Kevin Tucker (her book character Benny the Badger is even based on him!) – who she quickly discovers doesn't even remember her name when she drives out to the family cabin for some alone time and finds Kevin already there, as ordered by his team president (Molly's brother in law). Unfortunately, Molly's crush and rebellion gets the best of her and she jumps into his bed in the middle of the night while he's sleeping and sort of violates him (they have sex but he's pretty much still asleep and thinks she's his ex-gf). What's worse, the condom breaks and Molly gets pregnant.
She's happy but her brother in law isn't and neither is Kevin when he finds out and insists on marrying her – and then she has a miscarriage hours after the wedding...From there Molly sleeps into a depression both over the baby and over the changes her publisher wants her to make for her latest book (so as not to offend SKFSA – Straight Kids for a Straight America, who think she uses too many rainbows in her books) – so when she misses the appointment to get the annulment Kevin intervenes and drags her off to the camp he just inherited, where Molly falls in love with one of the cabins, gets her muse back and throws herself into baking and making sure Kevin doesn't get bored. But while Molly is falling in love with Kevin, he's planning on selling the camp and they're still planning a divorce, right?
This is a great book, touching on all sorts of serious issues from book censorship to adoption and family relationships (Kevin's aunt who is actually his mother shows up and stars in a secondary romance with a famous reclusive artist) while still being fun and lighthearted. There are excerpts from Molly's writing interspersed and I loved Benny and Daphne (the Bunny). The only potential negative is there really isn't much if any sports in this book since it all takes place over their time off before training camp, and I'm not a big fan of the epilogue, but everything else is so right it doesn't matter.
