

There are plenty of cheesy moments as they eventually reassess each other, but the romance between these two is nothing short of fireworks. And Phoebe thinks Dan is a cocky, sexist jock.

At first, Dan thinks Phoebe is an oversexed, brainless, blond bimbo. Phoebe must find a way to work together with head coach Dan Calebow to turn the team around.

She only gets to keep the team if the Stars win the AFC Championship. It follows Phoebe Somerville, a New York socialite with an outrageous reputation who inherits a pro football team and a teenage half-sister when her father dies. It Had to Be You is the first in the Chicago Stars series. There is basically no wrong choice when it comings to picking up a Susan Elizabeth Phillips novel, but here are my suggestions for where to start. Some of them seem a bit dated now (she’s been publishing for over thirty years) but they are still books I return to again and again. Equal parts funny and romantic, I always fall in love with her quirky leading ladies and macho, misunderstood leading men. She also won the groups Lifetime Achievement Award. While Nora Roberts’s novels skew towards the serious and suspenseful, Susan Elizabeth Phillips is known as the “Queen of Romantic Comedy.” Furthermore, Phillips is the only five-time winner of the Romance Writers of America Favorite Book of the Year. When it comes to contemporary romance, I’ve always considered the two masters to be Nora Roberts and Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
