Penny Wallace knows bodies.
As a sports physical therapist, she spends her days helping injured athletes trust theirs again. Trusting her own body is a little more complicated.
Penny is smart, successful, funny, and fully capable of shutting down a room with one sarcastic comment. Humor has always been her safest defense. Laugh first. Make the joke better. Never let anyone know when the comment actually hurts.
And her family has supplied plenty of material.
Too big for that dress.
Maybe skip dessert.
Men like a certain type.
Fat girls never get the man.
Penny learned to laugh along years ago.
Then Cole Bennett walks into her clinic.
The veteran basketball star is handsome, stubborn, injured, and entirely too interested in the woman responsible for getting him back on the court. Penny assumes the flirting will end when his rehabilitation does.
Cole has other plans.
He comes back without an appointment.
Then comes the coffee.
The flowers.
The dinners.
The texts.
The very public dates.
Cole keeps showing up until Penny has to face an uncomfortable possibility: he actually wants her.
Their romance quickly becomes harder to hide from Penny's family, Cole's fans, and a vicious online audience eager to compare her body to the women he dated before. Every cruel comment feeds an insecurity Penny thought she had learned to control, forcing her to question whether Cole's love can survive the attention that comes with his life.
While Cole faces the end of his basketball career and the family members who have grown dependent on him, Penny begins confronting her own family, her oldest wounds, and the jokes she has used to keep everybody from seeing how deeply their words landed.
Cole can keep choosing her.
Eventually, Penny has to choose herself.
Never Gonna Get It is a witty, steamy closed-door BBW sports romance about body confidence, persistent love, family drama, career reinvention, and a woman learning that taking up space never required permission.
