Meet the Author

Ayla Callahan is running from a future she never chose and from the father who has always made her decisions for her. When she leaves college one year shy of graduation, she escapes to New York City to live with her older brother, AJ, the newly named starting quarterback of the New York Hawks. Desperate for something that's hers, Ayla finds it in the last place she expected—the cheer squad of her brother's own team.

 

Then one nationally televised game changes everything.

 

Ayla is knocked off her feet and injured in a sideline collision with Lennox Monroe, the star quarterback of the rival Los Angeles Stallions. Their first meeting is charged and impossible to forget. As Ayla begins her recovery, circumstances keep bringing them together, drawing her into dangerous territory. The man she cannot stop thinking about is also the one man she should never want: her brother’s biggest rival.

 

From the outside, Lennox has everything: fame, fortune, and a franchise built around him. He’s relentless and seemingly untouchable, with a life defined by football and little room for anything else. But five years into his professional career, injuries, criticism, and unmet expectations have drained the joy from the game. Determined to finally win a championship, Lennox has eliminated every possible distraction from his life—including relationships.

 

Until Ayla.

 

What begins as concern becomes a connection Lennox cannot ignore, and one neither of them can afford. Loving her threatens the life he has devoted entirely to football. Loving him could cost her the fragile independence she is only beginning to claim. With family loyalty, a relationship neither team can know about, and both their futures on the line, Ayla and Lennox have to decide if what's growing between them is worth risking everything they've fought for.

 

The collision was never planned.

 

Neither was what came after.