The NFL Draft is coming to Pittsburgh this April. We’re all gearing up for the big celebration, and the Library has plenty of football-themed romances to keep football-shaped butterflies in your tummy and hearts in your eyes as you read about hunky players, their romantic dilemmas, and their happily-ever-afters. 

Mar 9, 2026

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In the Catalog

And the Crowd Went Wild

And the Crowd Went Wild

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dancy Flynn is a famous actress who just suffered a public humiliation. She impulsively flees to the lake house of her high school boyfriend – who happens to be a star quarterback and doesn’t have fond memories of their relationship. He begrudgingly lets her stay in a refurbished railroad caboose and tells her to stay out of his way. However, things don’t turn out that way, and the more time that passes, the more he enjoys her company.

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Chasing the Ring

Chasing the Ring

Lauren Rowe

Iris Benedetto has a cheating fiance, so shes leaves him at the altar and takes their honeymoon alone, ready to soothe her anger and sadness with some meaningless hot action. Luckily for her, her suite is double-booked by NFL quarterback Roman Maguire. She doesn’t follow football, but she does know an attractive man when she sees one. They agree to have a fling, but is a week enough time for their passion?

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The Christmas Catch

The Christmas Catch

A Sweet Holiday Novella

Toni Shiloh

After a career-ending injury, NFL wide receiver Jahleel Walker returns to his hometown for Christmas, where he runs into his high-school sweetheart, Bebe Gordon. The connection between them is still strong, but Jahleel has no plans to stay, and Bebe can’t risk him leaving again. Will they take a chance on love or let life sideline them at Christmas?

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Fair Catch

Fair Catch

Kandi Steiner

Riley wants to prove herself as the only woman on her college football team. She can’t afford to be involved with her teammate and roommate Zeke, even though they both can feel the attraction.

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The Friend Zone

The Friend Zone

Kristen Callihan

The last thing star tight end Gray Grayson wants to do is drive his agent’s daughter’s bubblegum pink car. But he needs the wheels and she’s studying abroad. Something he explains when she sends him an irate text to let him know exactly how much pain she’ll put him in if he crashes her beloved ride. Before he knows it, Ivy Mackenzie has become his best texting bud. But then Ivy comes home and everything goes haywire. Because the only thing Gray can think of is being with Ivy.

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Game on

Game on

Ki Stephens

She’s a cheerleader trading in her Oxford life for one year in Nashville. He’s a star quarterback who doesn’t do distractions. But when they team up for a no-strings-attached fling, they’ll have to break their own rules to keep playing the game.

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If We Ever Meet Again

If We Ever Meet Again

Ana Huang

Blake Ryan is–was–a college football star who shocked the sports world when he quit after his third national championship. Instead of dealing with the fallout, he escapes to Shanghai, where he vows to keep life simple. No football. No commitments. No romance. But no matter how hard he tries, he can’t keep a certain beautiful brunette off his mind…or out of his heart. What starts as a physical attraction develops into something much deeper as Blake and Farrah get swept up in the magic of Shanghai–and each other. But they only have one year, and there are forces outside their control that threaten to rip them apart. Can their relationship survive the test…or was it just not meant to be?

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It Happened on A Sunday

It Happened on A Sunday

Tracy Wolff

They call her the Black Widow. A pop star. A tabloid tragedy. A girl who set the world on fire–and got burned in return. But Sloane Walker doesn’t care what they say. Not anymore. The headlines, the hashtags, the rumors that never die? Let them come. She’s survived worse–like the ex who tried to kill her and the fans who blamed her for surviving. These days, she’s armor and eyeliner, singing songs that hurt and pretending they don’t. She’s halfway through a sold-out tour and dangerously close to unraveling when a meet-and-greet throws her into the path of Mateo Sylvester–a rising star quarterback with a devastating smile and a grandmother who’s Sloane’s biggest fan.

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Just for the Cameras

Just for the Cameras

Meghan Quinn

Graydon St. John doesn’t do drama–or public appearances. The brooding defensive end for the San Francisco Foghorns prefers silence, solitude, and avoiding headlines. But when a league-wide PR scandal forces him into a media stunt at the city zoo, he’s suddenly face-to-face with squawking birds, nosy fans, and the zookeeper who seems to hate his guts on sight. Maple Baker loves her flamingos. Loud, pink, messy? Sure. But they’re hers. And the last thing she needs is a grumpy football player stomping into her sanctuary with a bad attitude and a bigger ego. Unfortunately, they’ve been paired for the zoo’s new public outreach program, and the cameras are already rolling. The banter is sharp. The tension is electric. And the more they pretend to play nice for the press, the more their fake flirtation starts to feel like something dangerously real.

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A Legend in the Baking

A Legend in the Baking

Jamie Wesley

After accidentally going viral on social media, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven–and his best friend’s little sister–to help promote his new bakery. August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and baking cupcakes isn’t a threat to masculinity goes viral, making him the hottest bachelor in town. With a new location in the works, August and his partners decide to capitalize on this perfect opportunity to help cement their place in the community. But the hiring of his best friend’s younger sister, the woman who has haunted some of his best dreams for years, was as much of a shock as his new-found fame.

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The Next Best Fling

The Next Best Fling

Gabriella Gamez

Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years–and when he gets engaged, she knows it’s long past time to move on. But when she dutifully attends the engagement party (as a good, quietly suffering friend does), Marcela discovers that she’s not the only one with an unrequited crush. She may have it bad for the groom-to-be, but his hot ex-NFL brother, Theo Young, has it even worse for the bride.

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From Libby

Playing for Keeps

Playing for Keeps

A Novel

Alexandria Bellefleur

Poppy Peterson’s life is finally back on track and she’s thriving as the publicist of the NFL’s most promising quarterback (and her childhood best friend), Cash Curran. So, she doesn’t appreciate when he makes an impulsive and public pass at America’s popstar darling, Lyric Adair. When Lyric’s notorious publicist Rosaline Sinclair reaches out, Poppy is ready to face her wrath but instead learns that Lyric is equally interested. As Cash and Lyric embark on their ill-advised whirlwind romance, Poppy and Rosaline are forced together, each determined to protect their own client from the other. Poppy is frustrated by Rosaline’s cool demeanor, while at the same time, as a legend in the industry, she’s determined to impress her. But, no matter what she does, she can’t shake the feeling that Rosaline doesn’t like her. That is until one steamy night, when the two women contend with their unexpected feelings and begin a messy romance of their own. But with paparazzi, tabloids, and stalker fans nipping at their heels, Poppy and Rosaline’s loyalties will be tested in ways they could never expect.

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Princess and the Player

Princess and the Player

Ilsa Madden-Mills

A masquerade brings Francesca Lane and NFL star Tuck Avery together. They learn that they have wild physical chemistry before they learn their real identities, and when they do reveal that, Francesca is cautious about Tuck’s wild reputation as a partier and player. She’s ready to leave the whole thing alone when she takes a pregnancy test and it comes out positive.

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Snapped

Snapped

Alexa Martin

Elliot Reed is Strategic Communications Manager for the Denver Mustangs and she’s not very happy that she has to manage the media firestorm when quarterback Quinton Howard Jr. Decides to take a knee during the national anthem. Quinton feels a little irritated that Elliot sees him as a problem. Being forced to spend time together, though, lets them learn more about each other and start to change the tension to something hotter.

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From Libby