Julie Stark was supposed to be my past.
The girl who left town, chased bigger dreams, and took my heart with her.
I stayed.
Built a life out of football, family, and responsibility, telling myself wanting her was a habit I’d broken.
Then she comes home, and in a town this small, I feel her everywhere.
At the diner. At the store. Standing too close, smelling the same, looking at me like she remembers exactly how this felt.
I try to keep my hands to myself.
I fail the second her eyes linger and her voice drops.
One almost-kiss turns into five years of wanting crashing back at once.
Watching her with my family reminds me she was always meant to be here—with me.
But when football ends and the dream dies, fear takes over.
Because if I let myself want her again—and I’m still not enough—losing her this time might ruin me for good.
Second Down is Book 2 in the Jeneson University Football series and can be read as a standalone romance.This book includes:
The girl who left town, chased bigger dreams, and took my heart with her.
I stayed.
Built a life out of football, family, and responsibility, telling myself wanting her was a habit I’d broken.
Then she comes home, and in a town this small, I feel her everywhere.
At the diner. At the store. Standing too close, smelling the same, looking at me like she remembers exactly how this felt.
I try to keep my hands to myself.
I fail the second her eyes linger and her voice drops.
One almost-kiss turns into five years of wanting crashing back at once.
Watching her with my family reminds me she was always meant to be here—with me.
But when football ends and the dream dies, fear takes over.
Because if I let myself want her again—and I’m still not enough—losing her this time might ruin me for good.
Second Down is Book 2 in the Jeneson University Football series and can be read as a standalone romance.This book includes:
- Second-chance romance
Small-town setting
Friends to lovers to exes to lovers
Right person / wrong time
Emotional angst + HEA
Spicy scenes
Genre: New Adult Romance
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