Play Me: Special Edition (Play Me Series: Special Editions)

Babysitting a professional rugby star sounds straightforward—until the star in question is Gray Adler, and "straightforward" immediately becomes the least accurate word imaginable.

Hired to keep the Royals' newest hotshot on schedule and out of trouble, the job should have been simple. It is not simple. Gray drives a truck the size of a small country, weaponizes his horn in traffic, and seems constitutionally incapable of forming a sentence that doesn't contain at least one infuriating comment. He is, without question, the most aggravating human being on the planet.

The universe's cruelest twist? Underneath all that arrogance lives a tattooed, broad-shouldered, criminally attractive man who somehow keeps doing things that don't fit her carefully constructed narrative of loathing.

*Play Me* is a sharp, witty contemporary sports romance that delivers everything readers love about the enemies-to-lovers trope—crackling banter, slow-burn tension, and two people desperately pretending they feel nothing while feeling absolutely everything. Adriana Locke writes with her signature warmth and humor, balancing laugh-out-loud comedic moments with swoony emotional beats that sneak up on you when you least expect them.

Gray and his infuriating, irresistible energy will have readers flipping pages long past midnight, rooting for a woman who swore she'd never fall and a man who might just be worth falling for.

Some games change everything—and this is one neither of them planned to lose.