The Homophobic Coach Who Turned Gay: A Steamy Small-Town MM Football Romance: 2

Beau Tucker has spent sixteen years building the perfect cover story. Divorced. Devoted single dad. Small-town football coach who never met a feeling he couldn't bury under a practice schedule. What nobody knows, not his ex-wife, not his teenage son, not the whole town that thinks it's got him figured out, is the college teammate Beau loved once and walked away from in a single terrified moment, and the sixteen years he's spent making sure nothing like that ever happens again. Then Julian Ford shows up as his new assistant coach: openly gay, unbothered, impossible to ignore. Beau tells himself his reaction is nothing. Just professional friction. Then his own son calls him out for it, point-blank, and Beau has to admit that the wall he's spent half his life building was never actually about anyone else at all. Falling for Julian means finally facing the man Beau's been avoiding since he was twenty years old, and risking everything: his son's respect, his standing in a town that thinks it already knows him, and a booster club president determined to make an example out of Julian the second he gets the chance. When it all comes to a head at a school board meeting in front of half the county, Beau has one choice left: stay hidden, or stand up in front of everyone and finally tell the truth. A grumpy, guarded coach, a patient man who refuses to be anyone's secret twice, one football season, and a whole town watching. This steamy, emotional MM romance delivers a full, satisfying happily-ever-after and continues the Harlan Creek series, where every book follows a different local man's real, hard-won turn away from the fear he was raised with and toward the love he never let himself want.