The Coach's Favorites. Playbook Series, #4

Two players. One coach. And a line none of them can afford to cross. Mike Dawson knows better than to notice his coach. He notices anyway. Coach Wade McKinney is older, broad-shouldered, demanding, and dangerously difficult to read. Every lingering look and late-night film session leaves Mike wondering whether the attraction exists only in his imagination. Then there's Derek King. Mike's massive, tattooed teammate has never met a boundary he couldn't tease Mike about crossing.
Derek sees the tension between Mike and Wade almost immediately-and instead of backing away, he makes one thing painfully clear:Mike isn't the only one caught in the middle. What begins with teasing, jealousy, hot tubs, lingering touches, and one kiss that changes everything soon becomes something none of them knows how to name. But Wade is still their coach. When whispers of favoritism begin spreading through the team, desire stops being harmless.
Careers are at stake. Reputations could be destroyed. And Wade knows wanting something doesn't give him the right to take it. As the season races toward its end, Mike must confront the difference between the man he can't stop wanting...and the man who has quietly been standing beside him all along. Because some people change your life by loving you. Others change it by knowing when to let you go.