She has a plan. The plan does not include Thursday lunch.
Jules Santos is nonbinary and the engine of Las Brasas, on the field and off it. Coaching, organizing, connecting, saying yes to everything. When a preseason hamstring tear puts them in the physio room for eight weeks, they have nothing to do but sit still and notice what the stillness is asking.
Natalie Voss is a physical therapist who is precise, warm in a clinical way, and not interested in being charmed. She is also, technically, in the middle of deciding whether to follow her long-term partner to another city. She has a plan. The plan is fine.
The professional boundary is real and this book respects it. The romance cannot fully materialize while Natalie is Jules's treating clinician, which means what builds between them builds slowly, inside the constraint, desire accumulating in the space where nothing is allowed to happen yet.
When Natalie ends her relationship, it is for her own reasons, long before any line is crossed. Jules is not the reason. He is what she finds after the ending, which is a different thing entirely.
A forbidden feelings nonbinary sports romance about forced stillness, the difference between a plan and a life, and two people learning to be present without needing it to look like anything.
Clean romance. Fourth in the Las Brasas Romance series.
Genre: Romance
Jules Santos is nonbinary and the engine of Las Brasas, on the field and off it. Coaching, organizing, connecting, saying yes to everything. When a preseason hamstring tear puts them in the physio room for eight weeks, they have nothing to do but sit still and notice what the stillness is asking.
Natalie Voss is a physical therapist who is precise, warm in a clinical way, and not interested in being charmed. She is also, technically, in the middle of deciding whether to follow her long-term partner to another city. She has a plan. The plan is fine.
The professional boundary is real and this book respects it. The romance cannot fully materialize while Natalie is Jules's treating clinician, which means what builds between them builds slowly, inside the constraint, desire accumulating in the space where nothing is allowed to happen yet.
When Natalie ends her relationship, it is for her own reasons, long before any line is crossed. Jules is not the reason. He is what she finds after the ending, which is a different thing entirely.
A forbidden feelings nonbinary sports romance about forced stillness, the difference between a plan and a life, and two people learning to be present without needing it to look like anything.
Clean romance. Fourth in the Las Brasas Romance series.
Genre: Romance
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