Rule #1: You Can't Date the Coach's Daughter

by Anne-Marie Meyer

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If only my heart understood the rules, I wouldn’t have fallen for Tyson Blake. Stupid heart.

There are two types of people in high school: the ones that you can date and the ones you can’t. Unfortunately for me, I’m the latter. Even though I’m around hot football players every afternoon, they are not allowed to date me. If they even come close to flirting, my dad, Coach “The Boss” Davis, makes them run laps around the field until they puke.

Nothing scares off a boy more than the threat of physical pain.

Not only has he forbidden me to date anyone at all, he’s even made me the football team’s water girl so that he can keep tabs on me. Apparently, over protective dad is a fabulous guy deterrent. Outdoor shops should find a way to bottle it and sell it. They’d make a killing.

What Dad doesn’t know is that I spend every last second of those two blissful hours of practice in the scorching California heat, staring at Tyson Blake. He is the epitome of perfection in a six-foot-two, incredibly toned, smells-good-even-when-he-sweats, senior body. And when he smiles, angels sing. Literally.

And Dad hates him.

It feels a bit cliche to say I fell for the one guy that would send Dad’s already high blood pressure over the the top, but I did. And when Tyson asks me to be his tutor, I don't say no. There's something about him. Something he's trying to hide.

I just hope I can keep our arrangement secret from my dad long enough to find out.

Some rules are meant to be broken.

If you love forbidden love and stolen first kisses, you'll love Rule #1: You Can't Date the Coach's Daughter.

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Book Details

Genre

Contemporary Romance

Subgenre

Sports

Series

The Rules of Love • Book 1

Audience

Upper YA

Bell Peppers

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Profanity

2 Mild

Violence

2 Mild

Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

1 None

Publication Date

August 1, 2018

Language Versions

English

Narration Type

Human

Fiction Form

Novel

Editorial Reviews

"This book was amazing! I love everything that Anne-Marie Meyers writes. You can just dive into it and become one with the characters and live alongside the romance." - Amazon Reviewer

Loved it

Loved it

Accattivante

Letto da mia figlia di 16 yo, interessante accattivante e non troppo lungo. comprato in formato dgt lo consiglio.

Es un buen libro

Es un libro fácil de leer con una historia cliché pero aún así entretenido de leer

So cute

A cute clean easy read. I really enjoyed this cute love story between the coaches protected daughter and the quarterback with too many responsibilities.

(4.5 stars) - touching YA romance with a parental caveat

The story is wry & amusing despite the seriousness of some of the issues involved. Destiny & Tyson are young, confused and understandably conflicted.Destiny & her dad love each other but they don't communicate very well. Her dad's strict rules against guys are part of their pathology, which we learn stems from Destiny's mom abandoning them for another man.So Destiny is kind of emotionally stunted, this immaturity presumably resulting from her mom's damage & then her dad's subsequent bitter overcompensation.Tyson is struggling with the embarrassment & resentment of having to be the adult in his broken family when he's the one who should be getting support from the adults in his life. (I would've liked to know what happened to the dad - did he leave because of his wife's drinking or did she start drinking because he left?)Destiny & Tyson each view the other as too good for them in some way. Tutoring allows them to spend some time together & get to know each other, but that increases the conflict of worrying about messing up the other's life because of their own baggage.Destiny's resentment of her dad's epiphany is understandable, even though her response is counterproductive. But then, that's part of the toxic baggage that needs to be offloaded.The ending is really sweet, not just because of the happily-ever-after, but because we see that they are on a path toward healing.Hopefully we'll get to see more about them in the subsequent books (Esp finding out if Tyson succeeds in getting a scholarship!)*Clean romance level: passionate kisses*Parents may want to discuss this with their teens because there are some adult issues that come up such as coping with alcoholism, adultery & abandonment - - but also because relationships with damaged people in real life are a whole lot more complicated & teens need to know that, outside of fiction, those don't usually turn out so well