Ayla Callahan is running from a future she never chose, and the father who's always chosen it for her. She drops out of college a year shy of graduation and escapes to New York to live with her brother, AJ, newly named starting quarterback of the New York Hawks. There, she finds a purpose of her own in an unlikely place: his team's cheer squad.

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Then one nationally televised game changes everything.

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Ayla is knocked off her feet and injured in a sideline collision with Lennox Monroe, star quarterback of the rival Los Angeles Stallions. Their first meeting is charged, impossible to forget, and her recovery keeps drawing them back together. The man Ayla can't stop thinking about is also the one she should never want: her brother’s biggest rival.

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From the outside, Lennox has everything: fame, fortune, a franchise built around him. But years of injuries and unmet expectations have drained the joy from the game. Determined to finally win a championship, he's eliminated every distraction from his life—including relationships.

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Until Ayla.

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What begins as concern becomes a connection he can't ignore. Loving her threatens the life he's devoted to football. Loving him could cost her the independence she's only just begun to claim. With family loyalty, a secret neither team can know about, and both their futures on the line, they have to decide if it's worth the risk.

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The collision was never planned.
Neither was what came after.