Content Warning: This book contains coarse language, erotic scenes and mature subject matter. It is intended for those who are 18+. TW: Domestic Violence.

Will this Captain be able to make it off the sidelines?

Gary Wilkinson

He's the Captain. He's the man. He's the star of Crawfield Football Club. He's Wilks. The striker with a level of fame that precedes him. Gary's a ladies man—there's no denying that, and since Crawfield FC has taken the town by storm, he's now one of the most eligible bachelors on the market.

Love isn't as simple as it seems, though. For as easy as it is for Gary to swoop anyone up, it's that much harder for him to get them to stay. It's as if the town only wants a taste of the Crawfield Captain, and not the whole dessert.

Fed-up with his routine heartache, Gary settles on the hope that love will happen naturally, and when he unknowingly runs into a local bakery in town, desperate for some help, his encounter is as unexpected as can be.

Chelsie Windsor

She needed a fresh start—a break—a moment in time to reset and detach from not only her life before, but her toxic ex-relationship that won't seem to let up.

Fleeing to Crawley in secret, to join her older sister in running her local bakery was the only safe-haven she could think of, and now that shes here, Chelsie refuses to let anything stand in the way of this fresh start.

Crawley is a small, quiet town, but little does Chelsie realize the big reputation it up-holds, with not only the football club that dominates through, but with the Captain who makes his acquaintance hard to forget.