Off the Record

A viral scandal cost him everything. A promotion could cost her, her heart.
River Morrison was the NFL's golden boy until a viral fight demoted him from star quarterback to a thirty-year-old "rookie" for the Manhattan Peacocks. He's guarded, covered in tattoos of the people he's lost, and protecting a secret that would ruin his former teammate-and his own reputation.
Sydney Onyx is a woman who knows how to juggle. A rising star reporter at Horizon Plaza and a devoted mother to her five-year-old son, Jett, she has no room for error. She's finally landed the assignment that will secure her future: an exclusive on the league's most disgraced player. But when she walks into the facility, she doesn't just see a headline. She sees the stranger she shared a reckless, heated night with in a nightclub a week ago.
More than that, she sees the boy she loved at eighteen.
Neither is ready to admit the truth. But as they play a professional game of cat-and-mouse, the matching ink on their inner wrists is a ticking time bomb. The feelings they buried twelve years ago are back-and this time, the truth is strictly off the record.