His playing days are over. His winning season just began.
I’m reorganizing my friend’s book booth when he walks up behind me. Tall, broad-shouldered, and absolutely gorgeous.
The kind of man who makes my librarian brain short-circuit and my carefully organized world tilt sideways. He’s also Cassie’s brother. The famous football star whose career ended too soon.
The one she’s been worried sick about for months. The last man I should be fantasizing about while I’m supposed to be watching her booth at the fall festival.
But when Orion looks at me like I’m the most fascinating puzzle he’s ever encountered, all my reasons for staying away start crumbling. One football lesson by the lake changes everything.
He’s lost without the game that defined him. I’m hiding behind my books and my perfectly ordered life. Together, we’re combustible. He says he’s only in Maple Ridge temporarily.
I know getting involved with my friend’s brother is asking for trouble. But some risks are worth taking. Even when they might change your whole world.
