Sports Romance Books
It’s lonely being a sports star at the top of your game. Surrounded by fans and groupies, can these incredible athletes ever be sure they’ve found true love? Can partners see the man beneath the jersey, or are they always defined by their last play?
Now, you can finally find out in the genre-defining The Dating Playbook Series.
USA Today Best Selling Author Mariah Dietz has found a niche in the world of sports romance novels and is making it her own. Having grown up playing competitive basketball, she knows a thing or two about athletes and their dedication to their craft. And when athletes are the stars of their college teams with hopes of going pro, these regimens and pressures increase tenfold. Add romance to the mix, and things are about to get explosive.
Experience the push and pull between focus and passion as young athletes struggle to balance the love of their life and their love of the game. With fiery, strong-willed heroines who aren’t ready to swoon for an autograph, these stories will set you ablaze with excitement from kickoff to overtime.
Relationships That Are More Than Just a Game
These men may be athletes, but Mariah Dietz’s sports romance books create moving, pulse-pounding relationships that aren’t to be played with. Built on a foundation of relatable, three-dimensional characters, these sweeping plotlines will reach deep into your heart for an unforgettable dive into the world of sports romance.
Find yourself carried along as these characters navigate through the deep waters of love, friendship, and personal growth. Cheer and gasp as they struggle to figure out who they are and what they want. It’s so much richer than just a romance—these are poignant stories of friendship, sportsmanship, and the pitfalls and perils of life-changing choices.
All's Fair in Love and Sports
When it comes to sports, rules are everything. But when it comes to love, passion is the name of the game.
In The Dating Playbook Series, the spirit of competition works seamlessly with the tension of romance. Set at the fictional Brighton University, experience the rush, uncertainty, and excitement of young love, all against a riveting backdrop of athleticism and coming-of-age.
With six sports romance novels orbiting the football program at Brighton, The Dating Playbook has something for every fan. Find yourself rooting for the strong female protagonist as she comes into her own and grapples with falling for a star football player. Sometimes it's the brother's best friend, the best friend's brother, or even someone begging for a favor in the form of a fake romance.
Each book follows a different heroine as the man she never intended to fall for slowly starts to break through her walls — and the rules she has set for herself. Each fully realized woman refuses to be impressed by a star athlete’s trophies or stats. But what happens when she begins seeing him for who he truly is and who he wants to be?
Delight in the angst and chemistry of two strong characters who are great individually, but could be even better together. Will they give in to their true feelings? Each romance, whether real or fake, is beset with rules. And we all know that the best rules are made to be broken.
Choose Your Draft Pick
Football and fantasy collide in The Dating Playbook Series, with a set of sports romance books that can be read as a continuous series or as individual standalones. With each book paying tribute to different main characters and new relationships, there are six opportunities to fulfill every one of your sports romance fantasies.
Six heroines, six sporty love interests, and six dating rules to be cast aside. With so many heart-racing options to choose from, which Mariah Dietz sports romance will be your first draft pick?
Book 1 — Bending the Rules
He's popular,
a guaranteed draft pick,
and worst of all:
my brother's best friend.
It's a tale of unrequited love.
I tried not to like him.
I have an entire list of reasons.
Reasons that have become my rules for dating.
Rules that he keeps bending.
Book 2 — Breaking the Rules
Sticks and stones
might bruise my bones,
but these rules are guaranteed to break me.
Freewill or not, it will take more than bending the rules to be with her—
it will require breaking them.
Book 3 — Defining the Rules
It started with friendship.
The best stories always do.
And with his perfectly defined abs and even more perfect face...
But things between him and I were doomed,
right from the very start.
We were supposed to be friends, but like everything,
things kept getting blurred.
Now, we're Defining the Rules.
Book 4 — Exploring the Rules
I see him for what he is.
After all, Rules have always been my compass.
And trouble has never been my brand.
Yet, something is starting to slip, revealing there are always two sides to every coin.
He's created war between hope and sense.
And I fear I will lose both once we're done Exploring the Rules.
Book 5 — Forgetting the Rules
It all started with a lie.
You see, once upon a time, I believed in happily ever afters.
But life taught me too quickly that rules are necessary,
and that gilded cages won't protect your heart.
Now, the secrets are bigger,
the lies greater,
and the stakes are even higher.
Will the pressure break us apart?
Or will I be able to forget the Rules?
Book 6 — Writing the Rules
It began as a fake relationship.
Writing the rules was supposed to make things clear, defined, and definite.
Only, their relationship becomes increasingly complex as the lines are blurred,
weeks become months,
and kisses for show begin to feel like confessions.
Can lies lead to truths?
And what happens when the rules they wrote begin to expire?
One lie,
two hearts,
and fifteen years of friendship are about to be put to the ultimate test.