
Play to Win
A Novel
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · July 11, 2023
Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win, is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes a second chance at love.
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- Genres
- Second-Chance Romance, Romantic Comedy, Black Romance
- Published
- St. Martin's Press, July 11, 2023
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Jodie Slaughter's latest rom-com, Play to Win, is a sizzling romance where a winning lottery ticket is meant to be a new start but instead becomes a second chance at love. Miriam Butler’s life is going nowhere in the slowest, most excruciating way possible. Stuck in the same barely-paying job she’s had since she was sixteen and spending every night sleeping in the spare twin bed in her mother’s house, her existence might be hilarious if it wasn’t so bleak.
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One trip to her favorite corner store upends everything when she finds herself the winner of a Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Unfortunately, not even life-altering roses come without their painful thorns. Hers just so happen to be in the form of an estranged husband who has the right to claim his share of her money. It’s been eight years since Leo Vaughn has had a conversation with his wife. When she calls out of the blue, practically begging him to come back to Greenbelt, the last thing he expects her to tell him when he gets there is that she’s come into a whole heap of money. She offers him a life-changing proposition of his own. Take a lump sum, finally sign the divorce papers, and be done with her for good. Only, a forever without her is the last thing Leo wants. So he gives a proposition of his own. One that won’t cost her nearly as many millions, but will buy him the time to do the one thing he’s been hungry to do since he left -- win her back.
Why It Lands
Come here for
- summer-romance energy
- book-club-ready chemistry
Expect
- contemporary Black romance
- second-chance tension
Where it sits
| Romantic Comedy | 66% |
|---|---|
| Second-Chance Romance | 57% |
| Black Romance | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Romance
- Romantic Comedy
- Black Romance
- Authors
- Jodie Slaughter
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- July 11, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Romance