Below The Belt. Baum's Boxing, #1

Noah Avidan has not led a charmed life. His first serious relationship crashed and burned with his boyfriend in the bed of their dog-walker. After achieving his dream job working as a Classics Professor at the University, his life is derailed by a car accident, leaving him blind in one eye and battling to lecture through a stammer. Whatever his luck, though, Noah is bound and determined to pick up the pieces and find his own way to happiness.
The day Noah walks into Baum's Boxing is the day everything changes. Adrian Flores, a former Marine and current boxing champion, is immediately taken with the timid man taking his first kickboxing class, and it seems like a fairy tale waiting to happen. Until it doesn't. A miscommunication between both men leaves them vulnerable for one cruel, obsessed man to take matters into his own hands. Will their relationship survive blackmail, violent attacks, and a promise to destroy their livelihoods? Or will the two be forced to part ways and accept that fate is just not on their side?