The Bromance Book Club
Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major-league trouble. When his wife, Thea, admits she has been faking her pleasure for the whole of their three-year marriage, Gavin reacts badly enough to make everything worse, and Thea asks for a divorce. Out of the house and out of ideas, he is let in on a secret that several of Nashville's most powerful men have been keeping: they run a clandestine book club, what they read is romance novels, and they treat the genre as the closest thing to an instruction manual anyone has bothered to write.
Handed a steamy Regency called Courting the Countess, whose estranged couple is facing a version of his own problem, Gavin is coached through the unfamiliar work of grovelling, listening and courting his own wife properly. Thea, meanwhile — who quit college, set aside her own ambitions and has spent years being a professional athlete's wife while raising their twin daughters — is working out what she actually wants, and whether a second attempt at this marriage is something she owes anyone.
Told in alternating points of view and threaded with excerpts from the novel-within-the-novel, Lyssa Kay Adams's romantic comedy is a warm, funny, frequently filthy book about a marriage worth saving, and about a group of men learning, belatedly and with considerable help, how to deserve one. It is the first book in the Bromance Book Club series.
Second baseman for the Nashville Legends, blindsided by his wife's request for a divorce and inducted into the book club to learn how to court her properly.
Gavin's wife and the mother of their twin daughters, worn down by years of setting aside her own education and ambitions for his baseball career.
Nashville nightclub owner and founder of the secret romance book club, whose complete lack of a filter drives much of Gavin's education. Leads the next book in the series.
Thea's sister, a chef, and her most uncompromising defender. Leads the next book in the series.