Title: Risk the Play
Series: Nashville Rampage #6
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: May 19, 2026
❤️Single Mom
🏈Football Coach
❤️Age Gap
🏈Forbidden
❤️Secret Relationship
🏈Best Friend’s Dad
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Risk the Play is a single mom, coach, best friend’s dad, forbidden, secret-relationship, age-gap romance.
Will
Football was always simple—follow the playbook, make the sacrifice, win the game.
I lived by that rule for decades, and it cost me everything. My marriage. My daughter.
By ten, she believed I loved the game more than her. Now she’s back in my life—with a family of her own—I fight every day to show her I’ve changed.
Then I fumble it all by falling for her best friend.
Amanda is strong, stubborn, and raising her daughter alone after her husband’s betrayal.
One kiss becomes something neither of us can ignore.
She wants to keep it secret. I don’t.
Because this time, I’m willing to risk the play. I won’t lose my second chance at love.
Amanda
I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I just never planned on doing it alone.
But when my ex got his assistant pregnant, I stopped, waiting for the life I thought I’d have—and choose motherhood for myself.
Now I’m a single mom doing my best to build a quiet, steady life with no drama and no risks.
Until my best friend’s father becomes the one risk I can’t resist.
Coach Warner is disciplined, respected… and completely off limits.
Watching him fight for his daughter only makes falling for him more dangerous.
We tell ourselves it’s just once.
But one reckless kiss turns into a night we can’t take back—and a secret we definitely can’t afford to keep.
Because if we’re discovered, I could lose my best friend…
And he could lose his daughter all over again.
Falling for me was never part of his playbook.
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Risk the Play by Kaylee Ryan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’m not sure how to write this review – i’m not a huge fan of age gap romance and i knew going in, i might struggle with it, but to my surprise this was a nice Sunday read for sure.
Will has know Amanda a for a very long time as she’s his daughter best friend. And as he’s repairing his fragile relationship with her, Amanda is thrown in the mix as a new single mom to a little girl. She getting out of a bad marriage and is struggling letting other people help her, but Will is not taking No for an answer.
As time passes and they spent time together, feelings start to grow that are more than just friendship and keeping each other at a distance soon turns out to me too much for both of them. But fear plays a big factor when disclosing coming out with their family and friends and they’ll have to make sure that what they feel is more than affection.
This was not my favorite in the series, but they did add another part to the puzzle that is the Rampage family.
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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