
Romance book fans can't get enough of Ana Huang. Over 23 million copies of her novels—featuring fierce heroines and morally gray men— have been sold, and several of her titles have shot to the top of The New York Times Best Sellers list. In addition to her breakout Twisted series—a viral favorite on #BookTok that's soon to be adapted into a Netflix original—she writes the If Love, Kings of Envy, and Gods of the Game series.
Her highly anticipated, latest entry in Gods of the Game, The Defender, hits shelves on October 28. The sports-romance novel follows the tension that unfolds when Blackcastle Football Club captain Vincent DuBois is forced to move in with his coach's daughter, sports nutritionist Brooklyn Armstrong. Though Brooklyn can't stand Vincent, who just so happens to be her best friend's brother, their forced proximity begins to blur the line between rivalry and attraction.