This is a good book. The two main characters are Madison and Geraint. They meet when Madison car breaks down and Geraint comes down the road and sees her walking. He picks her up and takes her to his pub and inn. There is an instant attraction. They start dating.. they each have issues but together they work them out and fall in love.

Love love love!
Loved the characters and the story. It was fun and enjoyable, sexy as well.
It's a second chance for Kate and Jude and I was all for it!!

5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Playing for the Win by Sasha Lace? Certified 5-star, full-body-swoon romance.
This book had everything I want in a sports romance—banter, tension, chemistry that crackles, and characters you root for HARD. The dynamic between the leads? Flirty. Fun. And deliciously slow-burn in all the best ways.

I loved how Sasha Lace gave depth to both characters—they’re not just hot athletes or love interests, they’ve got real struggles and growth. And the emotional moments? Hit just as hard as the spicy ones.

Honestly, it gave me that warm, giddy, can’t-stop-smiling feeling the whole way through. Like… this is what reading romance is supposed to feel like.

5/5 stars. If you love sports, sass, and seriously swoony scenes—read it immediately.


❤️Shaye.readss

This one was my favorite of all of them. It delivers strong chemistry, heartfelt moments, and a romance you’ll root for. Sasha Lace knows how to keep it fun and fiery!

A wonderful read!
This novel drew me in from the very first page and kept me hooked until the end. The characters were vibrant and relatable, the writing was engaging, and the story had just the right balance of heart and humor. Highly recommend!
Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

this book was a great ending to the series. i definitely recommend the whole series!! i didn't think i would be so sad to say goodbye to this soccer team! so glad i read them all and didn't let my dislike to the 1st books ending stop me.

I HAVE NO REGRETS💕🫶🏽

I thought this was very good and I will have to add this to the shop shelves. Thank you for the chance for us to review.

Such a sweet wrap-up and slight side quest outside the club!

American soccer player Madison has been recruited for the Calverdale Ladies, and it couldn’t have come at a better time for her to make an escape. England proves to not be exactly what she needs, so she takes a little trip out west to Wales for the holidays for a little staycation and finds just exactly what she’s looking for (a former rugby champion giant mountain of a Welshman).

This was a cozy holiday story with some of the same themes as the rest, but also a great look into the other side of being a soccer superstar: the pressure on and off the pitch, and how to handle that. I thought this was so sweet!

Thank you so much to Sasha Lace and NetGalley for a chance to read this in exchange for an honest review!

Book 4 in this series, the story of Madison and Geraint. She is in the England to play football after being jilted back home in the US. He runs a pub in Wales and meets her when she is staying there over Christmas. A great read and I liked how it was told from both points of view.

These books are like a drug - i am addicted to both the stories and the way that Sasha writes. She has become an auto-buy author and I can not wait until the Edited version of Pitching My Best Friend comes out. This was a different type of story from the other but that did not detract from my enjoyment, we had a different location and this allowed for us to see a bit of life in Wales and the struggles that Madison has been through. I am also saying this is my second favourite story of the series. I can not wait to see what Sasha Lace comes out with and I will be there on day one to get this. Now to go and buy the other 3 books to have as book trophies on my shelves.

This book was a very enjoyable read. I read it in a few sittings and was hooked after just a short time reading. The story was well paced and the characters were well developed.

I am not sure if I am ready to say goodbye to this series or soccer team. The female sport romance has been a refreshing change.

This story was a gorgeous example of how relationships going wrong can have a profound impact on us, but how it can also shine a light on what is real and what is fake, what true love looks like, and how you find it in the weirdest of places. This was a perfect finish with a journey from the southern USA to the UK and specifically Wales. The growth of the Welsh golden retriever and the American black cat was just wonderful to read. The spice was glorious and the ending was exactly what we needed.

Big thanks to NetGalley, Montlake and Sasha Lane for a copy of this book. This is my honest review.

Madison

After being jilted in Kentucky, playing for Calverdale Ladies in England was a chance to escape and spend Christmas alone, avoiding my feelings.

Which is how I’ve ended up snowed in at a Welsh pub with a retired rugby player who’s hot enough to thaw me out.

But when the snow’s gone, so am I. I won’t let another man in, not even one as gorgeous as Geraint…

Geraint

Running the pub, I’ve had flings with guests, but never one as sexy as Madison.

Too bad she’s so closed off. For both our sakes, we’ve agreed to keep our relationship physical. No attachments. No regrets.

Which is good, because I promised my dad I’d hold on to the Dragon Inn, no matter what. So I’m fine with no commitments, because I can’t ask a woman with a brilliant career in London to give everything up to be with me, in the middle of nowhere. Can I?

Playing to Win is the fourth book in the Playing the Field series—addictive romances full of heart and steam, perfect for fans of T L Swan.

Loved it. WIll recommend to others.

Recently sports romance has become my favourite and this was such a easy breezy quick read with brilliant character. Both the protagonists were mesmerizing and amazing in their own way and I had a great time reading this one. This is the fourth installment in the series and it was as impressive as the previous parts of this series.

Fun and spicy with a twist of fottball. Loved it! Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for this free eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book was way different from the first three books in the series, yet I strangely enjoyed it!

Rather than the story taking place within the women's league as the others do, we have the FMC, Madison, who desperately needs an escape getting snowed in a Welsh pub with Geraint, the MMC who almost immediately wants her. This story almost reads as a side-quest honestly. We get glimpses of the characters from the previous books in the series, and while Madison does spend some time in the women's league as I had expected, nearly the rest of the book takes place while she is off on her holiday.

Overall, I enjoyed the read. There wasn't anything wrong with it, but I just didn't connect with it on an emotional level as I did the previous books. Madison was a great character. She was avoiding her feelings, which the same girl, but she was very back and forth at times and that kept frustrating me. Maybe it was the lack of communication because everything felt uncertain at times and I honestly wasn't sure how long it would take for these two stubborn characters to get it together.

Geraint was adorable and really stole the show for me. That ending where he leaves the pub to go after her? Solid. 10/10. Would read that scene again. Everything leading up to that moment just really solidified my feelings towards this man. I wish he would have grown a pair a lot sooner, but at least the angst made the reward at the end (them finally getting together) worth it!

Such a cute cosy read! I have loved this whole series and this one was a perfect ending. Short sweet and to the point. I loved it! Defiantly recommend this series!

This was the best series!
I devoured each and every one.
Playing to Win by Sasha Lace was just so good!
Every last bit of this story was just phenomenally done to me.

Final installment in the Playing the Field series, but this story works well as a standalone.

Unlike the first three books, this one takes place with new characters and is primarily set in Wales over Christmas—I was not expecting a holiday romance when I picked this up, but I’m definitely not mad about it!

Madison is Gabe River’s newest recruit to the Calverdale’s women’s football (soccer) team and hails from Kentucky where just was just jilted at the alter on her wedding day. Now in England hoping for a fresh start, she’s struggling to connect to her team and is grieving her old life. Uninterested in spending Christmas with her family or team members and inspired by her parents stories of their wedding in Wales, Madison decides to spend two weeks at a small town Welsh inn/pub.

Geraint is an ex-professional Welsh rugby player who retired after a career ending knee injury and now runs the inn/pub he inherited from his father. The beloved inn is struggling to make ends meet, especially between his medical bills and exwife bleeding him dry of all his professional sports earnings. Imagine his surprise as the sole guest in the inn over the holidays might be just the person he needs to thaw out his heart…and maybe he could be what she needs too.

Both characters in this novel were a little grumpy, but it was cute to see them come together. The HEA is hard earned and all the more satisfying as both FMC and MMC are pretty stubborn.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publishers for this eARC in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to Montlake, Netgalley and Sasha Lace for allowing me access to this ARC. I have been struggling with this series but have been wanting to finish it. I don't like not finishing a series halfway through.

My feedback remains the same as previous 3 books. More depth, more emotion and character growth.