One on One

Chronic job-hopper Annie Radford needs to stick with her new gig long enough that interviewers stop writing “Flaky?” in the margins of her resume. Unfortunately, that new gig is the last one she wanted: her old position as videographer for her alma mater’s basketball team. Worse, on her first day she learns that layoffs are looming, and she’ll have to outperform her college coworker, Ben Callahan, to make it past the end of the season. He’s annoyingly wholesome, hot, and clinging to a grudge against Annie for abandoning him senior year when she quit her student manager job. They fight to prove themselves indispensable, and to avoid a deadly budget cut, the team has to do no less than win the national championship.

Inconveniently for Ben and Annie, this is a team sport, and they’re on the same side which means spending lots time together. The team keeps winning, and Annie and Ben strike up a friendship that has potential for so much more. But getting close to Ben means being honest about why she really left the first time, and Annie’s afraid to tell him the truth that the former head coach Maynard—a certified Ardwyn legend—he still idolizes is the reason Annie left basketball back in college.

But they call it March Madness for a reason: Anything can happen on the way to a national championship. If Annie and Ben can find a way to trust one another, they might be able to save both their jobs, win a title, and build something special together. If Annie can only find her voice, she’ll have the opportunity to add it to an article that could put an end to Maynard’s abuses once and for all.

In addition to being funny, romantic and sexy, ONE ON ONE examines the pressure put on college athletes and challenges the sexism as well as the myth making and idolization of men in sports.