The One & Only-Fantasy Football for Women by Emily Giffin

Emily Giffin is a multi-NYT's best selling author.  This story is set in Texas around the sport of football.  The players are Shea, a young sports reporter who loves not only the game of football but the football Coach of her college alma mater.  Coach who is the father of her life-long best friend Lucy.  The pre game story is She, an only child & her single mom were recruited by Lucy's family since the girls were infants, as part of Coach's home team.   The novel begins with the death of  Coach's beloved wife.  At the half in the novel,  Shea's paternal feelings towards Coach become more than just familial affection.  This should raise a huge penalty flag.  Lucy discovers her best friend Shea & her father have become romantically linked and a brawl ensues.  Shea is forced to chose between Lucy's dad or Lucy's life forever.  There's more to this light weight chick-lit story: domestic violence, loyalty and the obsession with football & hero worship.  Shea says "maybe it was sacrilegious to admit that I felt closer to God inside the stadium than in church on Christmas Eve."  I say ooh GIRL CODE - it's profane to become sexually active with your friend's father especially when you've known him your entire life.  This is way out of bounds.  The One & Only is a fast, trash read & the only book I will read by Emily Giffin.