Stroke of Bad Luck
MM Age-Gap Sports Romance
by Jace Wilder
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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Age Gap, Coach/Player, Bisexual Awakening, Sports Romance, Praise Kink, Forced Proximity, Secret Relationship, Slow Burn, Forbidden Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Coming Out
One bad swing can cost Mads everything. One good stroke might cost Cal his heart.
Madsen Rook can outdrive anyone on tour and self-destruct on live television before the back nine. At twenty-four, he’s talented, reckless, broke, and one public meltdown away from losing his last sponsor.
Callum Vey was the world’s number one — until a career-ending injury and a tabloid-fueled divorce turned him into golf’s most private, most expensive performance coach. He doesn’t take hopeless cases. He doesn’t get attached. And he definitely doesn’t want his impossible new client the way he wants Mads.
But Mads has been watching Cal’s old tournament footage for years and calling it research. Cal has been reading Mads’s swing like a love letter he refuses to open. And when forced proximity, late-night practice sessions, and one almost-kiss make professional distance impossible, Cal does the only ethical thing: he steps down as coach so he can be something more.
Now Mads has an independent coaching team, a career-threatening gambling investigation he didn’t cause, and a man whose praise makes his knees buckle. To win the biggest tournament of his life, he’ll have to stop swinging like the world is about to end. To keep Cal, he’ll have to prove he wants more than a secret mentor with very talented hands.
You’ll Love This Book If You Enjoy:
✅ MM age-gap sports romance with a 17-year gap that matters
✅ Former coach/player dynamic resolved ethically before HEA
✅ Praise kink that will ruin you — “Again” as a love language
✅ Bisexual awakening that’s a relief, not a crisis
✅ Forced proximity through tour travel and hotel rooms
✅ Slow burn that DETONATES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ A hero who learns discipline isn’t punishment
✅ A love interest who learns visibility isn’t destruction
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes), strong language, sports gambling and family addiction, on-page emotional manipulation by a parent, career-threatening investigation, and depictions of anxiety. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: Double Bogey
Four strokes up with three holes to play, and I was already rehearsing my winner’s interview.
Not the polished, sponsor-friendly version. The real one — the version where I thanked Reece for reading the greens, thanked myself for not imploding, and told the camera something cocky enough to trend but not reckless enough to get fined. Again.
The Arizona sun had turned everything gold…
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