Meet the Author

Isla Callahan is running from expectations, and from a father who always decided her life for her. When she walks away from college just shy of graduation, she escapes to New York City to live with her older brother AJ, the newly named QB1 of the New York Hawks. Lost and searching for purpose, Isla joins the Hawks’ cheer squad.

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During a nationally televised Sunday Night Football game, Isla is injured on the sidelines, knocked off her feet by Lennox Monroe, the rival team’s star quarterback. Their first meeting is charged and impossible to forget. As Isla begins her recovery, a series of coincidental run-ins with Lennox pulls her into a dangerous gray area: wanting the one man she should never want, her brother’s biggest rival.

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From the outside, Lennox has it all: fame, fortune, and a franchise built to win around him. He’s relentless and seemingly untouchable, right down to the supermodel the media insists is his girlfriend. But five years into his professional career, injuries, criticism, and unmet expectations have drained the joy from the game, leaving him singularly focused on one goal: winning it all.

Until Isla.

What begins as empathy grows into a connection he doesn’t know how to walk away from. As pressure mounts on and off the field, both Isla and Lennox must decide if they are willing to risk their hearts.

Sometimes the moment that changes everything is the one you never planned for.