Description
Orok is a star defensive tank on the Philadelphia Hellhounds' rawball team. He's a half-giant and patronized by Urzoth, the god of strength, but Orok’s tired of being tied to a god known for aggression. So (don’t tell his mother) he’s planning on renouncing Urzoth.
Until the cult of Galaxrien, Urzoth’s sworn enemy, causes a lot of damage through their ill-advised attempts to summon him, the followers of both deities find themselves blamed for the long-standing feud and its ramifications.
Alexo is a cheerleading intern with the Hellhounds. He smells like apples, which Orok only knows because he picked Alexo up—accidentally. Orok publicly saves Alexo from a bar fight, and fans go feral for the muscly pro athlete being protective of the pint-size dude-in-distress.
That’s enough to have the Hellhounds and Urzoth’s church both coming to them with a proposal: Orok and Alexo will start a PR relationship to put a positive spin on Urzoth. Orok is all set to refuse—and finally separate from Urzoth—when the team offers Alexo a starting spot on the cheerleading squad to play up the star athlete and cheerleader optics.
It’s such an obvious dream come true for Alexo that Orok finds himself agreeing to the arrangement like the sap he is.
He can keep living a lie for a bit longer. But Orok starts to wonder if they can drop the fake part of this fake-relationship…
Sports romance gets a Dungeons & Dragons makeover with the next book in the Magic and Romance series that follows half-giant Orok, forced into a PR relationship with a feisty, fan-favorite cheerleader.