Bride for the Quarterback
by itsvlada
🏈 A cool NFL romance with a charming heroine who must choose between two hot guys…
- Genre
- Steamy
- Chapters
- 45
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 276
18+Review by Julia ·
Mia Scott is a single mother doing everything possible to take care of her son, William, who desperately requires expensive heart surgery that she can not afford. Then Jared Morgan walks into her life, her high school crush who is now an NFL quarterback. He offers a deal: a fake engagement to keep the press off his back, and in return, he will pay for her son’s surgery.
It should be a simple transaction, but it does not play out that way. Jared is not such a reckless, out-of-control quarterback as the press seems to make him. He is caring, considerate, and vulnerable. Then there is Luke Matthews, Jared’s teammate and loyal friend, who always liked Mia. Now he is a presence in her chaotic life, and he offers something different to Jared: safety, consistency, and understanding.
Mia is now caught between two men, and she must make a decision. The clock is ticking on her son’s surgery as well as the contract that started it all.
Themes Discussed in Bride for the Quarterback
📢 Public image and redemption
🤱 Motherhood and sacrifice
🎭 Fake relationship, real feelings
🔺 Love triangle
Reasons to Read Bride for the Quarterback
🏆 Sports romance setting
💥 Emotional stakes are high
💍 Fake engagement trope
Meet The Main Characters
♀️ Mia Scott
A resilient mother is pushed to the limits as she must deal with her son’s life-threatening heart surgery. She is protective, loving, practical, and willing to sign a contract for a fake engagement to help her son.
♂️ Jared Morgan
He has a bad reputation in the NFL, where he is a starting quarterback. He has more depth than expected and is extremely charismatic. This makes it difficult for Mia to separate the offer and reality.
♂️ Luke Matthews
Dependable friend of Jared who has always liked Mia. He is sincere, patient, and understanding. Luke makes it even more difficult for Mia to make a decision.
❤️ A steamy love triangle romance based on sports and challenging choices.
Bride for the Quarterback synopsis
She signed a contract. She didn't sign up to fall in love. And she definitely didn't sign up to fall for two men at once.
Mia Scott is barely surviving — single mother, night-shift janitor, her five-year-old son William months from death without heart surgery she can't afford. Then Jared Morgan walks back into her life. She spent all of high school watching him from the bleachers. He never learned her name. Now he's an NFL quarterback, a tabloid disaster, and the man offering her a deal: a fake engagement to save his career before the Super Bowl, in exchange for the money that saves her son.
Simple. Transactional. An expiration date on page three. Except Jared isn't the arrogant playboy the cameras sell. Then there's Luke Matthews. The boy who saved her a seat since high school when nobody else bothered. Now he's a linebacker on Jared's team, and he's back. Where Jared is fire, Luke is the ground beneath her feet. Steady. Patient. Always there when the smoke clears. And Mia can't tell anymore which feeling is love and which is gravity.
Read Bride for the Quarterback – Chapter 1
Mia’s POV
* Ten years ago *
My father dies the same night Jared Morgan asks for my name, and I'm pretty sure the universe is just fucking with me at this point.
But let's back up a bit.
A few hours earlier, I'm standing at this same kitchen island pretending I came to this college party for the cheap beer. And Olivia—my best friend, my conscience, my personal hype woman—has been watching me watch the backyard like I'm on a stakeout.
"You're staring. Again," she says, sipping something that looks like radioactive waste and grimaces. "He's drunk, Mia. Plastered since seven. This is not your Disney moment."
She's right. She's always right, which is honestly annoying.
But Jared Morgan is out there in his football jersey, all broad shoulders and effortless charisma. He’s laughing at something and my stupid treacherous heart does its thing.
That pathetic flutter I've been trying to kill for years. That no amount of logic, self-respect, or deliberately dating Ron has managed to fix.
Here's what you need to know: I've been in love with Jared Morgan since high school.
Not the cute, healthy kind of crush where you giggle with your friends and move on.
The pathetic, all-consuming kind where you memorize his practice schedule and "accidentally" walk past the gym at 3:47 every Tuesday because that's when he comes out.
I tried, okay? I really tried.
I started dating Ron specifically to stop this. Pick the guy who actually notices you, who texts back immediately, who asks you to sit with him at lunch instead of making you orbit his world from three tables away.
Ron noticed me. Ron chose me.
That was supposed to be enough. That was supposed to fix everything.
Tropes
- Arranged Marriage
- Love Triangle
- Second Chance
- Enemies to Lovers
- Fake dating
- Forced Proximity
- Playboy
- Bully Love