Emmy and the All-Pro

An Emma Retelling Served with a Side of Humble Pie.

Emmy Woodhouse is Boston’s most instinctive matchmaker—sharp, confident, and absolutely certain she knows what everyone needs. She reads people the way other women read rooms, and she has never once been wrong.

Until she lies her way into her dream job by promising her new boss she’s already signed NFL quarterback Grant Knight as a client.
Grant is her brother’s best friend, a three-time league MVP with a talent for privacy and zero interest in being anyone’s showcase. He agrees to go along with it—reluctantly, conditionally, and on terms Emmy is going to regret—because that’s what you do for someone you’ve known your whole life.

The rules are simple:
Emmy finds Grant the perfect match.
Grant plays the cooperative client.
Nobody finds out the whole thing started with a lie.

It’s a perfect plan—until Emmy realizes that spending this much time with Grant Knight is quietly dismantling every framework she’s ever built. She can diagnose everyone else’s blind spots with surgical precision. She can architect the ideal partnership for a man who doesn’t believe in them. What she cannot do, apparently, is see what’s been in front of her the entire time.
She has never been wrong about anyone.

She is about to be spectacularly wrong about herself.