Book excerpt: Welcome to Valley Falls! A complete collection of 5 books all centered around the Valley Falls Strikers professional soccer team. Late Tackle When Cooper Holland, soccer star extraordinaire, needs a date for his sister's wedding, he enlists the help of his teammates. Set-ups aren't his style, but he's desperate. He's looking for a sweet, homey, girl next door type. Only Mae Nelson is anything but the girl next door. She's loud, talkative, and asks so many questions that his head is ready to explode. And not the good head. First Touch Shane Bradley took over the Valley Falls Strikers after the death of his father. His dad was beloved by all and living up to the man he was, is something that weighs on Shane day and night. Especially when he finds out his dad had another child. Even after meeting his new sister, he's torn up about the news and hits a bar to try and drink away to pain. He never expected that one night to change everything about his future. Allana Payne is on the hunt for someone to help her with a problem. She'd made it to the ripe old age of thirty-one without ever having certain things when it came to the bedroom. She knows there's more out there and she wants it. What she wasn't expecting was her lessons to be taught by the one and only Shane Bradley, owner of the hottest soccer club around and best friend to the guy her own best friend just got engaged to. She isn't about to say no when he offers to help and he isn't a fool who would leave a woman like Allana hanging. Give & Go When Ruby Mullen took the job as the public relations director of the Valley Falls Strikers, her only concern was working with professional athletes. She despised them. Turns out, the guys on the team were amazing. Well, except one guy. Dallas Ramos. He irritated her. Drove her crazy. His partying ways and womanizing were exactly why she hated athletes. Nevermind that it seemed like he'd made a change in his life. Tigers didn't change their stripes. As the star midfielder for the Strikers, Dallas was used to hard work. He had no problem knocking a guy out of the way, or sliding to take the ball away. His life off the field was different. He could walk into a bar and he'd have women flocking to his side. He didn't have to work for them. Or at least he used to have them flocking to his side. That was before. Before he decided he wanted more out of life than one night stands and women who didn't understand him. Enter. Ruby Mullen. She was constantly on him about something, yelling and arguing with him whenever they were in the same room. Somehow, that turned him on. He wanted her and it was time to do something about it. Narrowing the Angle Edwin Boyle has been in love with Hannah Temple since the day he met her. She was smart and funny and sexier than any woman had a right to be. As a pro soccer star, he had his pick of women most of the time. The only problem was, he didn't want anyone but Hannah. After five long years of pining for her, he was done. Finished. Until one night, everything changed. He's A Keeper Being the new guy on the team is hard enough but when Benji Melton, the Strikers new goalkeeper, walks in on one of the physical therapists completely naked in the locker room, things go from bad to worse. Now all he can think about is Cassidy naked in his bed, which would be fine if she wasn't giving him the cold shoulder at every turn. Oh, and did he mention that Cassidy just happens to be the owner's sister? Yeah, this is not a good start.