Hoops — Patricia McLinn

Carolyn Trent tried damn hard to be the perfect professor, always setting logical limits, shunning long shots like love, laughter and happily ever after. Unfortunately, proctoring ten rookie athletes required teamwork with sexy, irreverent coach C. J. Draper. The infuriating man stormed her ivory tower, rattled her lofty standards, threatened all her limits, put her heart through hoops.

Life had dealt him some heavy blows, but C.J. still had powerful ambitions. Pleasing Professor Trent was not among them. He ' deliberately chipped away at her marble-cool facade--and was dazzled by the fiery female he uncovered. Ambition paled in the dawning light of love . . . but could he concede all to this perplexing woman who ran circles around his heart?