Basketball fans awaiting the Portland Fire’s first game after the Las Vegas Aces, coached by Becky Hammond, took home the championship last week can fill the void with Samantha Saldivar’s novel Play You For It (Dell Books, 352 pages, $18). Saldivar, a Portland-born former KGW reporter, tapped into career experience to pen her latest queer romance novel, which was published Oct. 21. Saldivar will discuss the book with fellow author Jen Comfort at Powell’s on Friday, Oct. 24.

Play You For It is the tale of two successful women: Jordan, the first female coach of a Division I men’s basketball program at the fictional David Douglas University, and Beck, a sports broadcasting journalist. The two women meet on business—in a world where they are both outliers—to discover they have undeniable r

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