How To Train A Football Star

One wrong door. One public humiliation. One terrible plan.

Jess never expected her first day at Westbridge High to end with a viral locker-room video. She definitely never expected Derek Hale - star quarterback, campus obsession, and professional attention addict - to break her glasses and turn her into the team's newest joke.

So Jess makes a plan worthy of revenge:

Get close to Derek.

Become the football team's manager.

Learn what makes him tick.

Make him fall in love with her.

Then walk away first.

At least, that is the plan.

Because Derek is different when the crowd disappears. Beneath the confidence, scholarships, and perfect throws is a boy carrying the weight of a father's expectations and a future everyone else has already chosen for him. The more Jess learns, the more her carefully organized revenge starts falling apart.

And then the notebook containing every step of her plan goes missing.

Now homecoming is coming, a teammate is threatening to expose her, and Derek is closer to her than ever. If Jess tells the truth, she could lose him. If she stays silent, the entire school may tell him for her.

How To Train A Football Star: Hating to Love You is a bingeable Pen & Pad Quickie packed with enemies-to-lovers tension, sharp banter, football drama, emotional turns, public stakes, and chapter-ending hooks built to keep you reading.

She wanted to train him to fall first.

She never planned on falling harder.