Sports romance gets a Dungeons & Dragons makeover with the next book in the Magic and Romance series that follows half-giant Orok, forced into a PR relationship with a feisty, fan-favorite cheerleader.
Orok Monroe: star defensive tank on the Philadelphia Hellhounds rawball team. Half-giant. Patron deity: Urzoth, god of strength . . . only Orok's tired of being tied to a god known for aggression. So (don't tell his mother) he's planning on renouncing Urzoth.
Until the cult of Galaxrien, Urzoth's sworn enemy, ends up causing a lot of damage through their ill-advised attempts to summon him, and the followers of both deities find themselves blamed for the long-standing feud and its ramifications.
Enter: Alexo Warden: cheerleading intern with the Hellhounds. Smells like apples, which Orok only knows because he picked Alexo up. Accidentally—Orok publicly saves Alexo from a bar fight, and fans go feral for the muscly pro athlete being protective of the pint size dude-in-distress.
That's enough to have the Hellhounds and Urzoth's church both coming to them with a proposition: Orok and Alexo will start a PR relationship to put a positive spin on Urzoth. Orok is all set to refuse—and finally separate from Urzoth—when the team offers Alexo a starting spot on the cheerleading squad to play up the star athlete and cheerleader optics. It's such an obvious dream come true for Alexo that Orok finds himself agreeing to the arrangement like the sap he is.
He can keep living a lie for a bit longer. But Orok starts to wonder if they can drop the fake part of this fake-relationship...