Asher has always been in control.
As captain of the university’s elite men’s soccer team, he runs the field, the locker room, and every game with ruthless precision. So when an injured player forces the team to bring in a replacement mid-season, the last thing he expects is Mara—a fiercely talented Scottish striker with a sharp mouth, a worse attitude, and enough skill to threaten every guy on the roster.
The team calls her a distraction.
Asher calls her a nightmare.
Mara refuses to back down for anyone, especially not the arrogant captain who seems determined to make her life miserable from the moment she steps onto the field. Their practices become wars filled with insults, tension, and challenges neither of them can resist. But beneath every argument is something far more dangerous simmering between them.
Then comes the party.
One glimpse of Mara laughing in someone else’s arms is enough to make Asher snap, and one jealous mistake turns into a kiss neither of them can forget. They agree it can never happen again.
Except avoiding each other becomes impossible.
There are lingering touches, heated stares across the field, and chemistry so intense the entire campus notices. The more they fight it, the closer they come to losing control completely.
And when all that tension finally explodes?
It could ruin everything—or give them something neither of them saw coming.
