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And the Crowd Went Wild: A Chicago Stars Novel – A Second-Chance Romance Between a Quarterback and the Actress Who Broke His Heart

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

"The queen of the football romance is not Taylor Swift. It's Susan Elizabeth Phillips."—Wall Street JournalFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips, a romance between a star quarterback and one of the country’s most beautiful—and misunderstood—actresses.After a mortifying—and very public—humiliation, Dancy Flynn is desperate to find sanctuary far from the crowd. But where can a washed-up sex symbol hide? How about making an unannounced appearance at the secluded lake house of the sweet, sensitive high school boyfriend she hasn’t seen in almost twenty years?But Chicago Stars quarterback Clint Garrett is no longer the kid Dancy remembers. Now he’s a gridiron superhero, still holding a massive grudge against her for breaking his teenage heart. With no room in his life for either complexity or distractions, he banishes Dancy to a refurbished old railroad caboose tucked away in the woods…and out of his sight.Except Dancy’s not good at staying invisible. Her efforts to rebuild her career clash with Clint’s desperation to regain his focus, all made more challenging by a rescue dog, a local woman in trouble, a meddling mother, an ex with an agenda…and the sizzle of rekindled emotions.As Dancy attempts to get her life on track and Clint tries to get his groove back, can these two one-time lovers navigate their rocky pasts and complicated present to find themselves…and each other?Tropes include:second-chance romance enemies to lovers forced proximity childhood sweethearts

GenresRomanceContemporaryRomantic ComedySportsLiterature & FictionWomen's Fiction

352 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Avon · ISBN 9780063248625

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