This romance started out amazingly - with a surprising scene of the hero and heroine (Bryant and Ace) already in bed and not into it (whaaaat??). It really grabs your attention and poses a problem to solve: how is Frederick going to salvage the romance and their sex life? The sex gets solved pretty quickly (I think they could have spent more time figuring out what they liked instead of switching right back into the more typical insta-lust mode) but the romance stays interesting and complicated. Bryant and Ace do get along from the start and it's really Bryant who struggles to take it more seriously. That's just one of the ways that Frederick surprises with this book. She also takes the cliched coach's daughter plot and upends it by making the coach/dad not against his daughter dating his quarterback. That was a nice twist. And there were others. My only real objection was that those surprises sort of taper off and the end of the book gets less interesting, then I was really put off by the (view spoiler)[ kidnapping scene. That was just NOT okay and NOT funny. I *hate* romance scenes that play off violent and scary behavior as sexy or possessiveness. (hide spoiler)]. Otherwise, a good read, well written as all Frederick's books are, and different.