The Friend Zone

Gray Grayson, a star tight end in the NFL, ends up driving a bubblegum-pink car that belongs to his agent's daughter, who is studying abroad. He is not happy about it. When he fires off an irate text about the car, Ivy Mackenzie answers, and the exchange turns into daily messages.

Gray keeps women in one category: sex, and nothing else. Friendship has never been part of the arrangement. Yet the constant texting with Ivy becomes something he looks forward to, and he stops treating it as a sideline.

Then Ivy comes home. The easy rapport carries over, but now it comes with an attraction Gray cannot shake. Ivy has a firm rule of her own: she does not get involved with her father's clients, and Gray is the first name on that list.

This is the second book in Kristen Callihan's Game On series. It is a friends-to-lovers romantic comedy with a light, banter-driven tone. Gray, a guarded athlete, sets out to talk, text and charm his way past the friend zone, toward a relationship neither of them planned.