Danielle Paschka

The End Zone by Erin MacKenzie

( Book #2 in Out of Bounds Series)

Best friends to lovers, slow burn, athlete mental health rep, road trip, flirty tension & banter, sports romance

Blurb for The End Zone

Super Bowl champion. All pro running back. Leading rusher in the NFL.. All titles I’ve strived for my entire career and now that I’ve achieved them. The pressure to maintain that status has come with a price… Anxiety is a beast.

And it doesn’t care that I’m supposed to look tough on the outside. It still rages within me. But hiding behind lie after life. Its only a matter of time before everything around me starts to crumble and come to light and when it does.. the one to pick up the pieces is my best friend.

Her suggestion? A road trip. Something to relax my mind and ease some of the pressure. Except what happens when those old feelings I thought I had buried start rearing their head again? And this time. It looks like she might be feeling them back.

My goal every Sunday is making it into the end zone on the field but as the days go on. My new end zone. The place I know I can safely rest becomes a person. Mia Clark.

Alright kids, I cannot say enough about this one! I was lucky enough to be an ARC for her first book & I loved that one so much but this one for sure took the cake. I will forever LOVE friends to lovers books. The tension & banter between them was so good. Nate was SWOON especially being so sweet & tender to Mia. Literally the sweetest.

We still get the same friend group that we did in book 1 which I always love! I love when characters come back that way we aren’t really saying goodbye to them in the previous books. This book was just so sweetly written & as someone who experiences anxiety— I always can relate more to the book when it is in there. Erin did a great job executing that.

I am now counting down the days til book 3 by Erin! The End Zone comes out on February 9th but can be preordered now on Amazon! Make sure to also read book 1 in the series Line of Scrimmage to meet Ford & Abby.

Xo, Dani