Try To Love Me. Dublin Rugby, #1

I swore I'd never come back to Ireland, but when my grandfather falls ill, I trade backpacking through Bali for pulling pints in my family's pub. I expected shocked stares and gossip. Expected everyone in the village to remember the awkward girl who got shipped back to Boston to live with her wreck of a mother. What I didn't expect was the gorgeous stranger waiting for me at arrivals-tall, bruised knuckles, a black eye, and a smile that makes me forget my own name.
Right up until he tells me his. Rugby star Declan O'Shaughnessy is a local hero. He's also the boy who made my childhood a misery. Now he's everywhere I go, looking at me like I'm everything he's ever wanted. No matter how hard I try to push him away, he doesn't back down. And under all that swagger, Declan's hiding a vulnerability that bulldozes right past every wall I've ever built. As a travel influencer, the road is my home.
But he says I don't have to choose between freedom and love. That with him, I can have both. Is it bad that I'm seriously considering putting down roots after all this time? A high-heat, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance featuring a black cat heroine, a reformed playboy with a secret soft spot, kink exploration, and a man who's been in love from afar-until now.