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The Modern Classics · Book 2

Emmy and the
All-Pro

The matchmaker has met her match.

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The Modern Classics · Book 2 · by Holland Ashby

Emmy and the All-Pro

Football Rom-ComEmma RetellingMatchmakerBrother’s Best FriendHe Falls First

Emmy Woodhouse can find the perfect match for anyone — except herself.

Junior matchmaker Emmy Woodhouse is brilliant at strategy, but her job at Boston’s top matchmaking agency is hanging by a thread. To prove she belongs, she needs a star client — and she knows exactly who to target: her brother’s best friend, NFL superstar Grant Knight.

Grant is perfectly content with his life exactly the way it is. He has no interest in a relationship, let alone a setup. But he’s never been able to say no to Emmy. So when she begs him to let her find his “perfect match” to save her career, he agrees to play along.

There’s just one problem. While Emmy is busy vetting candidates and engineering meet-cutes, Grant is busy rescuing her from one athletic disaster after another — on the tennis court, on the ski slopes, anywhere her confidence outruns her coordination. And somewhere between the dating mishaps and the rescue missions, Grant realizes the only woman he wants to be matched with is the one trying to give him away.

A modern Emma retelling with a matchmaker who’s better at everyone else’s love life than her own — and a hero who fell first, and fell hard.

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The reader notes

The match, briefly.

A closer look at Emmy and the All-Pro.

Which classic inspired this story?

Emmy and the All-Pro is a contemporary Emma retelling built around a matchmaker who keeps overlooking her own match.

Who are Emmy and Grant?

Emmy Woodhouse is a junior matchmaker trying to save her career. Grant Knight is an NFL star, her brother’s best friend, and the man who agrees to become her client.

What romance tropes are in play?

Brother’s best friend, matchmaking mishaps, and a hero who falls first while she tries to set him up with someone else.

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