Playing for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson is a charmingly cute romantic comedy about Haley, a shy schoolteacher, and a man from the next door, Jason, who drives her up the wall. Literature tends to depict how when the love interest of a man turns out to be his enemy, then they turn into friends. This is the enemies-to-lovers romantic and comedy novel full of smile-evoking scenes and feelings and passion of two principal characters.