by C.R. Jane
First published 2025
Parker Davis has a reputation, and it is not the kind that comes from touchdowns alone. He is a quarterback who fixes his attention on one girl and does not let go. The story opens in the charged, closed-off world of college athletics, where Parker operates somewhere between devoted and dangerous. He is not a good man in the conventional sense. He makes choices that would end most relationships before they start, and he makes them anyway, because losing is not something he accepts. The girl in his life is not a trophy to him. She is the one thing he has decided matters, which makes him both her protector and her problem. The tension at the center of the book is simple and relentless: how far will a man go when he is certain he is right about love, and what does the woman on the receiving end do with that certainty? C.R. Jane writes Parker without softening his edges. He is morally grey, obsessive, and completely committed. Readers who followed the extended world of this series will recognize Parker from earlier appearances. For everyone else, this darker football romance stands on its own as a portrait of a man who has decided the rules do not apply to him.
Genres: fiction, adult, adult-fiction, dark-romance, contemporary-romance, sports-romance
Vibes: charged, dark, intense, morally-grey, obsessive, possessive
Tropes: dark-romance, morally-grey-protagonist, obsessive-love-interest, possessive-hero
Setting: college
312 pages · Paperback · Podium Publishing
Content warnings: toxic-relationship