Elle Patterson has three rules as an interior designer:

1. Sophistication trumps comfort
2. Every space needs a statement piece
3. Never, ever fall for a client

When she's hired to design the Chicago Falcon's star running back Colt Ricci's luxury penthouse, all three rules are about to be broken.

After forcing Colt into manual labor on their first meeting, while trying to ignore his hotness, Elle is determined to maintain her professional distance. But beneath his athletic exterior, Colt has a heart as big as his biceps and a family whose warmth might be Elle's undoing.

He's messy. Outspoken. A complete free spirit. Everything she isn't.
He's a family man.
She doesn't know what family is, or even what it's supposed to be, until she's bulldozed by a Golden Retriever and the entire Ricci family with Midwestern accents so thick it sounds like a foreign language and gets a peek at the life she's always wanted.

As their clashes over interior design turn passionate, handsy, and hot, Elle gets the email she's been waiting for-- one that will change everything.

With Colt fighting for a Super Bowl victory and her heart, Elle must decide if her carefully constructed future has room for the kind of "bling" that can't be designed or displayed—only felt from the heart.

TOUCH DOWN BLING features a 'golden retriever' pro football player who isn't ashamed to fall first, and the professional woman with a terrible past who has no idea how to accept what he's offering. This romantic comedy features forced proximity, opposites attract, and he falls first wrapped up in a steamy football romance (yes, with actual football!), with an HEA, no cliffhangers, and no cheating.