One More Kickoff: a High-Heat Grumpy Sunshine Football Romance with Single Mom Nutritionist, Protective Defensive Captain, Workplace Tension, Sports Scandal and Found Family

She came to rebuild the team's nutrition programme. She never expected the most difficult thing to manage would be the captain who refuses to stop challenging her.Ashling Keelan knows exactly what happens when powerful organisations value convenience more than accountability.As the new head of performance nutrition for the Sunday Night Kings, she has one job: build a programme that protects the players instead of serving sponsors, executives and polished publicity campaigns. She has a young son depending on her, a career she fought hard to rebuild and absolutely no room for another professional disaster.Especially not one involving Gene Singh.The Kings' defensive captain is disciplined, intimidating and accustomed to carrying everyone around him. Gene questions Ashling's schedules, challenges her decisions and seems determined to find every weakness in her new system.Unfortunately, he is also smart enough to recognise when she is right.Their reluctant cooperation becomes something far more dangerous when an unapproved sponsor product reaches the team and a young player becomes ill. Suddenly Ashling is fighting missing records, conflicting instructions and people more concerned with reputation than the truth.And Gene has his own problem.His future with the Kings is uncertain, and the contract he wants may depend on being the calm, cooperative captain the organisation needs him to be. Supporting Ashling could cost him the security he has spent years earning.Walking away from her might cost even more.As professional arguments turn into reluctant trust, late-night investigations become charged with attraction and their carefully maintained boundaries begin to collapse, Ashling and Gene discover that neither of them knows how to want something without trying to protect everyone else first.But when careers, family and the future of the team are all on the line, choosing each other will require more than chemistry.It will require the one thing neither of them gives easily.Trust.One More Kickoff is a high-heat contemporary football romance featuring grumpy sunshine chemistry, a single-mom heroine, protective defensive captain, workplace tension, sports scandal, strong consent, found family and an emotionally earned happily ever after.