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About the book

He can survive a tackle, a suspension, and even the press. He has no defense against the man hired to control the story.

After punching a sponsor’s son for making a racist joke at a charity gala, rugby captain Kellan Sayer becomes the New York Ironclads’ most expensive public-relations problem. The team brings in crisis manager Arden Vale with one directive: keep the captain quiet.

Arden is thirty-eight, impeccably dressed, and very good at telling powerful people what they don’t want to hear. He can teach Kellan how to face the press without surrendering his principles. What he can’t teach him is how to stop staring at the man doing the teaching.

Kellan has spent thirty-two years being the dependable, supposedly straight captain. Arden has spent years fixing other people’s disasters while ignoring how badly he wants someone to take care of him. Media training and close quarters make their professional boundaries harder to maintain, until a secret relationship becomes one more thing the team must not discover.

Then the scandal exposes something larger: buried concussion reports, corrupt ownership, and players treated as expendable. Protecting their careers means choosing the safe story. Protecting each other may mean telling the truth.

Book details

Author: Chase Power
Genre: MM contemporary sports romance
Sport: Rugby
Tropes: Closeted athlete, bisexual awakening, athlete/crisis manager, age gap, forced proximity, secret relationship, praise kink, coming out, team found family
Ending: Happily ever after

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Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit consensual sexual content between adult men, strong language, closeted identity and coming out, sports injury and concussion, institutional misconduct, parental rejection of a sibling’s sexuality, anxiety, and panic responses.