THE ASSIST

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She built walls to survive. She played through every one of them.

Jordan Reeves is the most electrifying point guard in women’s college basketball — a golden-girl athlete with a 94% free throw percentage, a projected #1 draft pick, and an emotional availability rating of absolute zero. She doesn’t do vulnerability. She doesn’t do honesty. She definitely doesn’t do falling for the PhD candidate assigned as her academic tutor at 9 PM on a Tuesday.

Blair Ashworth is a 26-year-old psychology doctoral candidate who studies human behavior for a living and has a catastrophic blind spot for her own. She has wire-rimmed glasses, a dissertation on athletic identity, and a previous relationship that ended when a tenured professor chose career over courage. She’s not making that mistake again. She’s definitely not falling for the arrogant basketball star who sits across her desk and dismantles her composure one session at a time.

But the tutoring sessions run late. The office door stays closed. The distance between professional and personal narrows until a single touch detonates everything — and the most forbidden relationship on campus begins behind locked doors, burner phones, and a protocol designed to keep them safe that only makes them desperate.

When Jordan’s brand manager obtains photographs that could destroy them both, they face an impossible choice: end it cleanly and survive, or fight for something real and risk everything — the Nike deal, the PhD, the draft, the career, the future they’re building in borrowed time.

Jordan chooses honesty. For the first time in her life, she chooses the terrifying, ego-shattering truth. And Blair — the woman who was someone else’s secret once before and swore never again — chooses to stay.

THE ASSIST is a 100,000-word high-heat sapphic sports romance featuring a closeted basketball star who’s never been brave enough to be honest, a PhD candidate whose clinical vocabulary crumbles in the dark, a brand manager with photographs and a fifty-seven-day deadline, burner phones and bite marks and a basketball t-shirt worn under academic armor. It contains seven escalating explicit scenes, a championship game decided by a pull-up three with two seconds left, a collarbone touch on the jumbotron that only one person understood, a golden retriever named Rebound, and a happily-ever-after that required burning every protocol to the ground.

You’re the assist on every score. You’re the play before the play that everybody sees.

🔥 Exclusive Bonus Content

Want more Jordan and Blair? Get “Sixty-Two” — an exclusive bonus chapter set after the epilogue. Jordan and Blair’s first night in their Hartford apartment. No burner phones. No protocols. No hiding. Just two women, an empty apartment, a bare mattress, and the freedom to be as loud as they want. 5,000+ words of dual-POV heat that’s too steamy for Amazon — because some homecomings require a mattress, a kitchen counter, and a heart rate that’s way above sixty-two.