Ann Jacobs

Ann Jacobs is an American romance writer whose extensive bibliography is organized through numerous linked series. Within her Gridiron Lovers sequence, Forward Pass follows Naked Bootleg and comes before Hot in the Clutch and Coach Me. The 2009 story centers on professional quarterback Keith Connors, a widowed father, and Tina Black, who becomes his son's nanny. Football supplies the workplace and series connection, while bereavement, trust, and a slowly formed household give this installment its individual shape. Other Jacobs sequences include Necessary Roughness, Hot Jock Heroes, Lawyers in Love, Heart of the West, and Oil Barons. She favors recurring professional communities, allowing one couple's story to sit beside later books about teammates or colleagues. Forward Pass was also collected with Naked Bootleg in the omnibus Home Field Advantage. That publication history makes the title both a compact romance and a chapter in a deliberately connected sequence built around players whose public careers contrast with their private responsibilities.