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The Perfect Play

By: G.S. Carr
Narrated by: Trei Taylor, Ryan Kailbourne
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In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing.

Simone Thompson wakes up in a Vegas hotel suite to discover three things:

  • Her headache might kill her.
  • The guy spooned behind her isn't some random Vegas hookup...it's James Sumner, the NFL's bad-boy wide-receiver and her twin brother's teammate.
  • There's a ring on her finger - you know...the finger.

As part of a football family, Simone knows all about the game, the good, the bad and the ugly. That's why she joined her brother's trip to Vegas in the first place - to keep an eye on him, not to end up entangled with her crush. Her very out-of-her-league crush.

James has always had the hots for Simone, and now that they're married, he sees an opening to prove to her he's more than just a playboy and that they really do belong together. But if he's really going to win over his bookish princess, he'll need to execute the perfect play....

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About the Creator

G.S. Carr has always enjoyed indulging in her imagination. At a very young age she had a thirst for reading and the many possibilities it helped come alive in her mind's eye. Carr can normally be found locked away with a good book in her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, or traveling the globe to places like India, Bali, Tokyo, or London.

Ryan Kailbourne
Trei Taylor

About the Performer

Ryan Kailbourne is an improvisational and stand-up comedian, actor, and voice actor with a combined 15 years as a performer and has narrated five books using 10 different dialects. He trends toward doing impressions and creating characters from real life as well as inventing voices of fictional characters and loves to animate pretty much anything that could possibly have a voice. Kailbourne has professional musical training on the violin and was the concertmaster of his county in western New York State throughout high school and sang in musicals, choir, and swing choir. He enjoys providing his voice in various forms of media, including commercials for IBM, Under Armour, and Footlocker, and hosts events on the Comedy Lounge on Clubhouse. He has produced his own books primarily but also enjoys using his talents as a voice-over artist in the commercial and animated fields.
Kailbourne has aspirations to be on Saturday Night Live, tour the US and the world as a stand-up comedian, and create his own animated shows in collaboration with his talented friends. He is the voice of Derf Flogginton on the YouTube puppet show "Flip and Derf," along with Brett Osborne. He dreamed of being a sports broadcaster as a young man and has always loved Dan Patrick, and has a comforting familiar neutral tone. He can do a mean Nick Offerman impression and a host of others.

About the Performer

Trei ("tree") Taylor is a highly skilled expert vocalist and voice-over talent with a combined 25-plus years of experience, including as a professional singer. Her specialty areas are vocal performance, including jingles, live musical performances, voice narration, audio production, imaging, copywriting, and more. Taylor's professional niches are audiobooks, news narration, commercials, jingles, radio imaging, and e-learning. She is a two-time Amazon Best Selling Audio Narrator, in 2020 for her narration of Narcissistic Mothers: How to Handle a Narcissistic Parent and Recover from CPTSD by Caroline Foster, and in 2019 for Dirty Tactics.

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Sweet Romance • Cute Storyline • Engaging Female Narration • Quick Enjoyable Listen • Heartwarming Ending
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I loved it. This book was a bit short. There was room for a full on sport romance comedy but quality novellas is a dying brand so I was glad. Tasteful maybe mild romance, clean language and interesting story line

Well played

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One 🌶 on the spice scale
But other than that really good worth the quick read

Good book

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This is an easy listen straight forward novella. It is quite predictable but it was a perfect listen on a long run.

Cute Novella

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Very cute short listen. Very predictable, but who cares, it was adorable! I like short stories like this one for when I go on long walks.

Short and cute

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This novella was so amazing, I only wish is was longer. Very warm and a sweet filler while looking for other books to read. Maybe G.S. Carr can write a series about the other team members mentioned.

Heart felt and sweet.

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I appreciate a good love story that's not overly sexualized! Just enough suspense to keep one wanting to find out how it ends. I do think a better/ younger sounding male actor would have been better, however.

sweet story....

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In the prolific outpouring of stories on racial couples that are new on the market, this story is refreshing. The couple is of multiple ethnic backgrounds and that’s just part of who they are not all of who they are. They’re both intelligent and well read and connect on that level. The matter of fact handling of the NFL aspect of the story was not overplayed. It isn’t the main story and is handled well as an aspect of the story.

The couple was developed well for the novella and I felt invested in them. I liked each of them and felt their attraction to each other, pain, and frustration. I was cheering for them.

The only characters not developed was Sam. His appearance at the end of the story as a catalyst was not in character from what we were given. I was thrilled for the rationalization used but didn’t buy the leap in character change within two weeks.

As a novella, I liked that there’s no guarantee of a HEA, but the couple are going to explore who they are together. It appears that they’ll have a HEA and we hope that they will. All in all, a well executed storyline.

The narrators did an excellent job. I recommend this novella for that pick me up between heavier books or a 2 hour drive when you don’t want to leave a book hanging.

Well written and narrated novella

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This was a really great short listen! I enjoyed it and wanted more of their story.

Surprisingly Good

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I enjoyed the story, the two narrators and the length was perfect. Not too long at all for a pre-order bedtime code. This is my first time hearing this author and hopefully not the last. So good!

Just Right!

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This short story was entertaining. I loved the connection and buildup between the two main characters. I didn’t like the voice of the make narrator but other than that I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Cute and quick.

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