When your love life stinks and you’re clearly the worst at choosing someone who won’t break your heart, why not ask your best friend to find you a date?
Unless of course…you’re in love with her.
I've been friends with Artemis since high school, when we bonded over crushing on the same guy. Six years later, we’re roommates in our shiny new post college lives—she's training for the Olympics while I start my pro football career. We’ve both recently had bad break-ups and she says if she’s going to get back out there, she needs dating lessons. Naturally, she asks me—her completely platonic roommate—to teach her.
We practice eye contact. Hand holding. Cuddling during movies. Because that's what best friends do, right? Practice intimacy? For science?
She thinks I'm being helpful. I think I'm losing my mind.
Meanwhile, I'm out here sabotaging her dates, getting jealous of my own teammates, and having heart-to-hearts with our pet goats about my feelings while she's literally in the next room.
But we're definitely just friends.
The evidence we might be idiots:
• The documentary crew filming my rookie season knows.
• Our pet goats know.
• Everyone knows. EVERYONE.
• The only people who don't know? Us.
This sports romance features two bisexual dating disasters who are Olympic-level idiots for each other —a football player who falls first and pines HARD, and a curvy rugby goddess who's oblivious because she's convinced she's "too much,"— matchmaking goats with excellent taste in humans, that Bridgertons-meets-American-Football family that's about to stage an intervention unless someone snaps and locks them in a closet together first, a documentary crew catching every slip and you've got a love story everyone can see coming … except them.
Unless of course…you’re in love with her.
I've been friends with Artemis since high school, when we bonded over crushing on the same guy. Six years later, we’re roommates in our shiny new post college lives—she's training for the Olympics while I start my pro football career. We’ve both recently had bad break-ups and she says if she’s going to get back out there, she needs dating lessons. Naturally, she asks me—her completely platonic roommate—to teach her.
We practice eye contact. Hand holding. Cuddling during movies. Because that's what best friends do, right? Practice intimacy? For science?
She thinks I'm being helpful. I think I'm losing my mind.
Meanwhile, I'm out here sabotaging her dates, getting jealous of my own teammates, and having heart-to-hearts with our pet goats about my feelings while she's literally in the next room.
But we're definitely just friends.
The evidence we might be idiots:
• The documentary crew filming my rookie season knows.
• Our pet goats know.
• Everyone knows. EVERYONE.
• The only people who don't know? Us.
This sports romance features two bisexual dating disasters who are Olympic-level idiots for each other —a football player who falls first and pines HARD, and a curvy rugby goddess who's oblivious because she's convinced she's "too much,"— matchmaking goats with excellent taste in humans, that Bridgertons-meets-American-Football family that's about to stage an intervention unless someone snaps and locks them in a closet together first, a documentary crew catching every slip and you've got a love story everyone can see coming … except them.
TItle: The Goat In The Bedroom (The Cocky Kingmans #6)
Author: Amy Award
Publisher:
Expected Publication Date: October 15, 2025
Review:
Thank you to Amy Award and LoveNotes PR for providing me with a copy of this title to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
Well, Amy's done it again. She's endeared me to the Kingman family and everyone who surrounds them. This book was so much fun.
Artie and Gryff were *chef's kiss* with their pining and their experimenting. I loved how they are best friends, such a great basis for a romance. And they know each other so well. They anticipate each other's needs. They take care of one another. And, when the moment was right, they loved hard on one another.
Award chose to incorporate LBQTQ+ into this book and I really loved that she wanted to have this inclusivity. I enjoyed the plot point she had along with it and how it showed what a community of allies can truly do for each other.
And the goats! Who can't love the goats. They are probably my favorite animals so far in this series. And that little extra at the ending from Vincent VanGoat? Perfect! It was so much fun to read.
This book has a little of everything for everyone: best friends to lovers, pining, family, found family, drama, LBGTQ+ rep, spice, and amazing life lessons!
I know Amy is going to give us the rest of the siblings stories, right? Because I cannot be without Izak and Jules's HEA! Let's go!
Author:
Amy Award is a curvy girl who has a thing for football players, fuzzy-butt pets, and spicy romance novels. She believes that all bodies are beautiful and deserve their own love stories with Happy Ever Afters. Find her at https://www.authoramyaward.com
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