
Soft Hands, Soft Hearts
FF Sports Romance · Women’s Soccer · Teammates to Lovers
by Aurora North
Free with Kindle Unlimited
Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Teammates to Lovers · Slow Burn · Forced Proximity · Opposites Attract · Only Soft for You · Touch Her and Die
She’s the calmest player on the pitch. Her new teammate is the loudest. The locker room isn’t big enough for what’s building between them.
Mia Bell is the quiet architect of the Austin Renegades — the midfielder who makes everyone else shine while keeping herself invisible. She’s disciplined, controlled, and still carrying the scar of being traded by the team she gave everything to. She doesn’t let people in. She doesn’t do loud. She definitely doesn’t fall for teammates.
Riley Sharp is chaos in cleats — the new left winger who plays like a wildfire and talks like a party. She’s magnetic, fearless, and running from the fear that she’s too much for anyone who gets close. She fills every room she enters. She fills every silence. She’s never met a wall she couldn’t charm her way through.
Except Mia’s.
From the first training session, their on-pitch chemistry is undeniable — passes that arrive like love letters, runs into spaces only they can see, a connection so electric the commentators call it telepathic. Off the pitch, the tension is even worse. Late-night patios. Shared hotel rooms. Texts that say everything without saying anything at all.
Mia tells herself it’s professional. Riley tells herself she can wait. But when “just teammates” starts cracking under the weight of everything they’re not saying, both women have to decide: protect the team, or fight for something that might be bigger than any championship.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Teammates-to-lovers with off-the-charts tension
✅ Quiet, controlled heroine × loud, chaotic heroine
✅ Women’s soccer setting with authentic game-day energy
✅ Slow burn that ignites into scorching heat
✅ Found family team dynamics
✅ “Everyone can see it but them” pining
✅ Grand gestures on national television
✅ Guaranteed HEA
Soft Hands, Soft Hearts is a ~80,000-word standalone FF sports romance with explicit heat, no cliffhanger, and a happily ever after. Book 1 in the Austin Renegades series.
⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content between two women, family rejection related to sexuality, sports injury, and references to emotional manipulation by family members. Reader discretion is advised.
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Home Game — A scene TOO HOT for Amazon
One year after the handshake that started everything, Riley brings Mia back to the pitch where they fell in love. String lights. A blanket at midfield. And a night under the Texas stars that proves some things only get hotter with time.
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