Off Limits

Marilyn Cooper has exactly three goals for freshman year:

1. Survive college.
2. Make the dance team.
3. Prove she can do things on her own.

Getting distracted by her brother's best friend isn't on the list.

Neither is becoming the social media manager for the football team.

Or accidentally starting a campus-wide rivalry with the quarterback.

Mari Cooper is sunshine in human form. She's the girl who remembers everyone's name, spends weekends teaching dance classes, loves children, and somehow turns every awkward situation into a funny story. She's beautiful without realizing it, endlessly kind, and completely chaotic.

She's also carrying scars nobody sees.

After growing up with an abusive father, anxiety follows her everywhere. Her older brother Miles has spent years protecting her, and before the football season even starts, he makes one thing very clear:

His little sister is off limits.

Unfortunately, Wes Bennett doesn't seem to understand boundaries.

As the star quarterback and campus heartthrob, Wes is used to girls falling at his feet. He's six-foot-five, annoyingly handsome, and somehow always smiling. He coaches little league football, adores his younger siblings, and hides his grief over losing his father behind jokes and charm.

The moment Mari walks into the football facility for her first day as the team's social media intern, Wes knows he's in trouble.

Because Miles's little sister is nothing like he expected.

She's funnier.

Prettier.

And way harder to stop thinking about.

When the head coach assigns Mari to create a season-long documentary series following the football team's star quarterback, Wes and Mari are forced to spend almost every day together.

And somewhere between filming practices, coaching little kids together, family dinners, and long walks across campus, they become each other's favorite person.

The problem?

Miles would absolutely lose his mind. And neither of them are supposed to feel this way.