Warren Updegrove’s best “friend with benefits” is Thom Lodge, a geeky grad student who tutored him in math when he was a struggling undergrad on the football team.
After playing in the NFL for a year, Warren is released from the team and returns to South Florida, where he drinks too much and loses his pro conditioning.
When he meets former Olympian Victor Ragazzo and joins Victor’s gay rugby team, he falls hard—but will Victor’s baggage bring down their budding relationship?
Will Thom ever step off the sidelines and declare his love for Warren—or watch his BFF ruin his life with a jerk? This friends to lovers sports romance hits lots of hot buttons.
NEIL S. PLAKCY is the author of over fifty mystery and romance novels, including the best-selling golden retriever mysteries and the highly acclaimed Mahu series, a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. His stories have been featured in numerous venues, including the Bouchercon anthology Florida Happens and Malice Domestic’s Murder Most Conventional and several Happy Homicides collections.
He is a professor of English at Broward College in South Florida, where he lives with his husband and their rambunctious golden retrievers.
His website is www.mahubooks.com.