Playing For Keeps

Kai Park has spent the last four years becoming exactly who the world expects him to be.
Gulf State's star basketball player. Future draft pick. Campus celebrity.
And according to every sports headline in America? A walking PR disaster.
When a league representative warns Kai that teams don't draft immature party boys, he does what any rational person would do:
He lies.
Now he suddenly has a girlfriend he definitely doesn't have-and a rapidly collapsing reputation to save.
Enter Alana Rossi.
Starting libero for the Gulf State Sharks. Campus sweetheart. Professional Kai Park hater. And unfortunately for him, the only girl believable enough to pull this off.
Fresh off a breakup with her emotionally constipated ex-boyfriend, Alana has no interest in dating another athlete. But if pretending to be Kai's devoted girlfriend helps him fix his image while helping her win the breakup?
Fine.
It's temporary.
Strategic.
Completely fake.
Until fake kisses start feeling real.
Until jealousy stops being part of the act.
Until late nights, shared hotel rooms, and one devastatingly charming basketball player make it impossible to remember where the game ends.
Because somewhere between the headlines, the rivalry, and the rules they definitely should've followed-
Kai Park stopped playing around.
And Alana Rossi may be the only thing he's ever wanted to keep.