ILLEGAL CONTACT (A Forbidden College Football Romance #1)

He’s the silence they send when the smile doesn’t work. She’s the girl who weaponizes sunshine. The only rule they made was the one neither of them could keep.

Sloane Pierce came to Baylor Ridge for one story — the kind that ends careers and makes powerful men call your editor. A buried injury. A vanished player. A football program that wins by deciding who’s allowed to get hurt and who has to smile through it. One clip stands between her and the fellowship of her life, and she’s already pulling the thread.

Then the program sends its enforcer down a tunnel to scare her quiet.

Cade Lawson doesn’t talk. He hits, he stays silent, and he protects what’s his — including a best friend playing on a leg that’s lying to everyone. He’s the last person who should fall for the reporter holding a match to his entire world.

So they make a rule. No contact. No names. Nothing anyone could ever trace.

They break it anyway — in the dark, in stolen hours, in every place the daylight can’t reach.

But secrets metastasize, and when the cost of the cover-up finally lands on the field, Sloane is left holding the only weapon that can take the program down — and the one truth that could destroy the boy she was never supposed to love. Cade will have to choose between the silence that’s kept him safe his whole life and the daylight he never believed he was allowed to want.

Some lines you aren’t supposed to cross.

This one’s flagrant.