A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired
soccer star in coaching a children's team in this smalltown love story
in the vein of Ted Lasso and It Happened One Summer --from the New
York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.
Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at
dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a
mark, go home, and repeat.
But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with
the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's
owner--who happens to be her father--sends Adalyn to middle-of-nowhere
North Carolina, where she's tasked with turning around the struggling
local soccer team, the Green Warriors, as a way to redeem herself. Her
plans crumble upon discovering that the players wear tutus to practice
(impractical), keep pet goats (messy), and are terrified of Adalyn
(counterproductive), and are nine-year-old kids.
To make things worse, also in town is Cameron Caldani, goalkeeping
prodigy whose presence is somewhat of a mystery. Cam is the perfect
candidate to help Adalyn, but after one very unfortunate first encounter
involving a rooster, Cam's leg, and Adalyn's bumper, he's also set on
running her out of town. But banishment is not an option for Adalyn. Not
again. Helping this ragtag children's team is her road to redemption,
and she is playing the long game. With or without Cam's help.
