The Striker

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…