The Rule Book

Author: Sarah Adams
Title: The Rule Book
Publisher: Dell
Date Published: 04/02/2024

Read Dates: 03/01/2024/- 03/03/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

The Rule Book is a dual-POV sports romance. It focuses on Nora Mackenzie, a newly promoted sports agent about to take on her first client, and Derek Pender, a football player who recently recovered from an injury… and her college ex-boyfriend!

I loved everything about this book! I enjoyed the carefully constructed rules they put in place to maintain a professional relationship, and watching them break all those rules! I loved how they became each other’s biggest cheerleaders, supporting each other’s goals and careers. I’m a sucker for a second chance romance and this one did not disappoint! 

College sweethearts meet again years later, in this highly anticipated romance and companion story to the viral TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet.

Nora Mackenzie’s entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn’t end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it’s come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he’s holding a grudge.

Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart, wants to be his agent, oh he’ll let her be his agent. The plan is make Nora’s life absolutely miserable. But if Derek knows anything about the woman he once loved—she won’t quit easily.

Instead of giving in, Nora starts a scheme of her own. But then a wild night in Vegas leads to Nora and Derek in bed the next morning married. With their rule book out the window, could this new relationship be the thing to save their careers?