After the Snap by Cadence Keys book cover

LA Wolves Defense Book 2

After the Snap

by Cadence Keys

A best-friends-to-lovers, fake-dating football romance

Ten years of friendship. Six months of pretending. Everything to lose.

An interconnected standalone romance

Where to read

Tropes

  • Best friends to lovers
  • Fake dating
  • She falls first
  • Longtime unrequited love
  • Reformed playboy
  • Found family

About the book

I finally get the nerve to tell my best friend I’m in love with him and he has the audacity to ask me to be his fake girlfriend.

Being best friends with an NFL star isn't easy. Being in love with him is even harder.

For ten years, I've been Dom Smith's closest confidante, the one person he can always count on. I've also been harboring a massive secret - I'm completely, utterly in love with him.

When a scandal threatens his position with the LA Wolves, Dom proposes a solution: a fake relationship to rehabilitate his image. It's six months of pretending to be the couple I've always dreamed we could be.

The lines between real and fake start blurring from our very first kiss. But Dom's never been a relationship guy, and I've spent too long protecting my heart to risk it all on what might just be another one of his games.

Only this time, losing my best friend isn't the worst thing that could happen - it's realizing he might actually love me back.

After the Snap is a steamy fake dating, best friends to lovers sports romance. It’s book 2 in the LA Wolves Defense series but can be read as a standalone.

Contemporary romance · Professional football / sports romance

Why you may love it

Dominic “Dom” Smith + Alayna

Set in Los Angeles / Southern California

Data analyst Alayna has secretly loved her best friend since high school. When a public scandal threatens LA Wolves cornerback Dominic “Dom” Smith’s football career, the commitment-phobic playboy asks the only woman he trusts to fake date him and repair his image.

Alayna has loved Dom for years; he hasn’t realized how completely he has already built his emotional life around her. Their fake relationship makes familiar closeness suddenly feel impossible to ignore.

  • Best friends since high school, celebrity image rehabilitation, and a fake relationship that becomes real.
  • A reformed playboy who gets jealous when his best friend dates someone else.
  • A curvy, creative heroine: Alayna works as a data analyst, while painting begins as her personal outlet and starts earning her money during the story.