Caught Offside. An MM Mafia Romance of a Fake Engagement and a One-Night Stand, and the Home They Built from Ruins

Alex Morgan fixes broken players before anyone notices they're hurting. He never planned to break, too. Welsh accent, steady hands, a stethoscope draped like armor - Alex is the best physio at Fordham United, and he keeps everyone at arm's length for a reason. The night his brother Finn waited for him in a hospital corridor was the last night Alex was ever whole. Then Jamie Carter limps into his treatment room. Arrogant.
Golden. The striker who called him "rub down boy" in front of the press. Everything Alex can't stand - loud, charming, impossible to ignore. The club wants their star striker out of the tabloids. The fix is a fake engagement, and Alex is the one expected to sell it. One pretend relationship. One contract. One line they both swear they won't cross. But Jamie's grin gets under his skin. The sunshine cracks the grump.
And somewhere between night training sessions and stolen kisses that stopped being for show, the lie starts feeling like the truest thing Alex has. Then someone leaks what they were hiding, and everything they built threatens to burn. "This stopped being fake for me a long time ago, " Jamie says. "Tell me it did for you, too." Now Alex has to decide whether to protect the wall he built around his heart - or finally let someone in to a home neither of them thought they deserved. Caught Offside is a steamy, emotional MM sports romance about a fake engagement, a grumpy-sunshine pairing, a one-night stand, forced proximity, found family, and the home two broken men build from the ruins. Perfect for readers who love MM sports romance, grumpy-sunshine pairings, fake-relationship tension, slow-burn forced proximity, and found-family healing.
A standalone romance with a hard-earned happily-ever-after.