Title: Change the Play
Series: Nashville Rampage #5
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Football/Found Family/Forced Proximity
Workplace Romance
Release Date: March 3, 2026
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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Change the Play is a found family, forced proximity, workplace, sports romance.
Foster
I learned early how to survive on my own. Keep my head down and my past locked away.
My childhood taught me that nothing lasts and no one chooses you forever. So I built a life free from love—and pain.
Football gave me discipline. Success gave me distance. Silence kept me safe.
Then Eden walked into my house.
My new housekeeper. Someone meant to clean my messes and remain on the edges of my life.
Except she didn’t stay on the edges. She saw me—really saw me—and didn’t look away. Her laugh somehow turned my empty house into something that felt like a home.
With her, the walls I spent years building began to crack.
Loving her means risking everything. It means believing I’m worth choosing. She makes me want to stop hiding… and change the play.
Eden
I know what it’s like to grow up unwanted. To pack your life into boxes and pretend it doesn’t hurt when no one ever unpacks them for you.
Loneliness taught me independence and resilience, to build a family from the people who stay. I never expected more.
Then I met Foster.
He’s quiet and guarded, carrying the weight of a past he refuses to name.
Working for him was supposed to be simple—do my job, keep my head down, don’t cross lines.
But the more time we spend together, the more I see the man beneath the armor. The one he hides from the world.
We weren’t looking for love. Yet somewhere in the stolen moments, we chose each other.
And for the first time, I’m not just building a family—I’m finally home.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I have loved every book in Kaylee Ryan’s Nashville Rampage series so far, but Foster and Eden’s story has been my absolute favorite of the bunch! At first glance, these two have nothing in common: he’s a quiet, reserved pro athlete, and she’s the sunny young woman who was recently assigned to clean his condo by the cleaning service. But as it turns out, Foster and Eden have so much more in common than either one of them realized, since they are both products of the foster system.
Yet how they each took that similar experience and applied it to their grown-up life was vastly different. Foster has kept himself isolated; despite his found family with his band of brothers, they know little about his past. He’s also still carrying around the heartache of having lost the woman years ago whom he thought was his forever, and that has colored everything he’s done over the past several years. He is quiet and disciplined, and thrives on control. Yet he is so, so lonely.
Eden was a ray of sunshine in comparison. She took those heartaches of her childhood and let them fuel her to make positive changes in her life. Her circle may only include her best friend Carrie’s family, but she has fully let them into her life in a way that Foster can’t even fathom letting the guys into his. Once these two come together, the transformation that Foster goes through is magical because for the first time, he can wants to let someone in. It was wonderful to see how Eden was able to scale those walls, and how he turned his manner of thinking around once he realized she was his End Game.
Change the Play is a beautiful story of resilience, hope, and the comfort that comes with having someone willing to stay in your corner!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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