Leo Taylor: football star, sexy beast, and party animal. Me: reporter geek, awkward, and Leo’s former best friend. Leo is all I've ever wanted. He's my dream, my love . . . and possibly the only person who could crush my heart. So when I get a chance to make him mine, you know I’m going to jump at it. I’ve never been happier . . . until I’m not. Until it’s bad. Until he destroys me.

The minute my life falls apart, I turn to my two best friends. Despite what came between Leo and Nate and me . . . our fates are linked, for better or for worse. One of them I love, and the other loves me. For a while, we manage a delicate balance. I’m happy and in love, even if it sometimes feels as though Leo often chooses football over me. But when tragedy threatens, will an impossible choice destroy us all?

I thought we’d be together forever. I never dreamed that the end would come so soon. I'm numb after a devastating loss. I don’t know where to turn, what to do next. But when it turns out that running to Leo isn't an option, I have to pick up the pieces of my life—alone. I have to figure out my own crap if we’re ever going to have a chance at forever. This is our last shot at a happy ending. And I’m not giving up on us.

I stopped believing in tomorrow a long time ago. Hope is a luxury I can’t afford, and optimism? Yeah, don’t make me laugh. But now this sexy football player has crashed into my life. He’s trying to convince me to live again, determined to make me believe in crazy things like love and happy endings.

I was just a kid when a cocky football player broke my heart after I gave him my virginity. But I grew up fast and learned that I could use sex the same way men did—for power and my own enjoyment. Years later, when life throws me into Eli Tucker’s path again, I do my best to keep a safe distance. He’s changed—that can’t be denied—but he’s still got the charm that’s proven lethal to my heart. He says he wants a second chance with me. Am I brave—or crazy—enough to give it to him?

I have one hard and fast rule when it comes to my love life: no athletes. And especially no football players! But Gideon Maynard is somehow different. His aloofness, his total, blinders-on commitment to football, and his surprising humor somehow work together to tempt me to bend my rules . . . for just one night, anyway. A fling with a guy who's football royalty? Yeah, it’s all fun and games . . . until someone falls in love.