Midnight Ballistics

Seventeen-year-old Kallias Marcier didn't ask to start over. Uprooted from his hometown and the paintball team he built from scratch, he's stuck in Phoenix with too much resentment and nowhere to put it - until a chance encounter on a rundown field puts him face-to-face with Grayson Thorne, captain of the paintball team Midnight Ballistics.

Grayson sees talent in Kallias that he can't ignore. Kallias sees someone he doesn't want to need. What starts as an invitation to practice turns into something far more complicated - a pull that builds through competition, quiet trust, and the kind of tension neither of them knows what to do with.

As Midnight Ballistics fights its way toward the national circuit, lines blur between loyalty and desire, control and surrender, and for Kallias and Grayson, the hardest battle might not be on the field.