Lennox is a sports agent, she’s a woman who is good at what she does, however, given the male dominated industry they don’t treat her equally, they assume she uses her good looks to get what she wants, not because she is good at what she does and puts her clients first. Rush is a professional footballer, but he is also surrounded by scandal within his own team back in the UK. Escaping to the US he and Lennox are forced to work together and the chemistry between them slowly simmering below the surface.

I love Lennox. Yes, she runs from things in her life, she is restless at times, but she is amazing at what she does. She has a hard exterior just to deal with her job. The men in the industry that she has to work with are very anti-women in the industry, but she isn’t afraid to stand up to them and speak out about it. I love Rush, too. He seems like the bad boy who is a magnet for trouble and scandals, but as the story continued there is so much more to his character.

The chemistry between Lennox and Rush is fantastic and is just coming off the pages. There is tension, great banter and plenty of heat all throughout the story. But they are both also super supportive of each other and bring out a different side of each other that no one else would for them.

Hard to Hold is a must read sports romance that brings the heat and the emotions.