Gods of the Game
The Defender
- Published
- 28 October 2025
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN-13
- 9780349442273
About this book
The Defender followed a year later, on October 28, 2025, at 432 pages, continuing Ana Huang's Blackcastle Football Club world with a new couple while earlier pairs from The Striker recur in supporting roles.
Its place in Gods of the Game
This book is listed in Gods of the Game by Ana Huang, but its publication-order position is not recorded.
Gods of the Game moves Ana Huang's brand of intense, banter-driven romance onto the pitch, following the players of a fictional English Premier League club, Blackcastle Football Club. Each book pairs a star footballer with a woman connected to his world — a ghostwriter, the coach's daughter, a nanny — and layers a forced-proximity or fake-relationship hook onto the pressure-cooker of professional sport: tabloid scrutiny, locker-room politics, and the toll of fame on ordinary intimacy. Huang keeps her signature…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780349442266
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780349442273