It Had to Be You

Chicago Stars

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville - the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Celebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Celebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises - a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound.

So why is he drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach's good ol' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied...and ready to fight?

The sexy, heartwarming, and hilarious "prequel" to New York Times best-selling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ This Heart of Mine - her sensational best-selling blockbuster - It Had to Be You is an enchanting story of two stubborn people who believe in playing for keeps.

©2013 Susan Elizabeth Phillips (P)2019 HarperAudio

Great story

Thanks for bringing joy into the world it makes such a difference to all. Keep writing

Amazing Book

I absolutely loved this book. The story is great, the performance is great, the characters are great. I just could not take off my headphones.

SEP and Anna Fields, there’s nothing better

There is nothing better than a wonderfully written SEP book read by Anna. Must listen

Love these books

I love SEP books. Steamy romance with a little bit humor when u least expect it. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Not my favorite narrator.

I remember enjoying this romance more when I was younger... but a big part of my dissatisfaction is with the narrator, who seems like a woman with a perfectly nice voice reading a book aloud. Maybe it’s an older recording? Because Audible has seriously spoiled me with the quality of voice acting I’ve come to expect from pretty much anything I listen to. Still, a nice relaxing read bought on sale.

Beautifully crafted characters

The author creates unfailingly charming characters that will win anyone over. Perfectly balanced and measured use of erotic tension

Cute, funny, and a lot of sass

BOOKIN IT BABES Book club July 2020 pick

Cute, funny, with a lot sass!!

This book was about a woman named Phoebe who inherits a football team called the Chicago stars. In order to keep her inheritance she has to make ,what she feels like, the impossible possible with taking a losing team to the top. She runs into many challenges but with the help of Dan nothing is impossible or is it?!?!? With Dan being just as stubborn as Phoebe their journey to the top is hilarious! Between their bantering I found myself several times laughing a loud! This book also transported me back to the mid 90s with detail in the character’s fashion and walk-mans references.

Loved it!

Good mix of love, heartache, and sweaty men! Kept me listening for hours at a time.

Speechless

What an amazing book! When I started listening to this audiobook I couldn't believe how good the story was, how great the dialogues were and when I continued I realized this is one of the best romance books, if not the best, I have ever heard.
You can tell the author took her time writing this story, it wasn't rushed, it wasn't cliché, you get to know the background story of several of the characters, and you fell in love with them.
I love hearing historical society romances, but from time to time also more updated romance books, but unfortunately most of the romance books these days are the typical hot guy, shy girl, best-sex-ever kind of books, and the stories are short ones with the same kind of plot, and although I still hear some of them as a light distraction, they are not my number one choice, so I wasn't expecting this amazing book, and on sale no less!
My respect to the author, really. I know this book has some heavy topics, as is warned in the description, and it's true it can be too much for some people, specially if they have a similar trauma, but I think the fact that the topic is approached here is a reality of a lot of women, and it helped to give so much depth to the main character that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
I really loved it, I would give it 10 stars if I could.

Incredible!

This was an absolute fabulous book. It made me laugh, cry, be angry at some of the horrible things some of the characters did. I couldn’t stop listening to it. Haven’t read or listened to anything the author has previously written but I’m definitely now a huge fan and will be searching for other books.