Flame After the Fumble by Kort Combe - New Paperback

Liza Wilde is ready for a fresh start at Springs U—a chance to focus on her art and leave her past behind. But one encounter with Hartley Knox, the university's star wide-receiver, threatens everything she's promised herself. After a cheating ex, athletes are off-limits. Period. Hartley Knox has spent his life searching for home, and Springs U feels like his escape from an absent father and a painful past. A new life, a new name—that's the plan. Until he meets Liza and realizes his biggest challenge isn't on the field. When academic probation and a career-altering setback force Hartley to ask for Liza's help, she insists they stay just friends. But Hartley has other plans. As they're drawn closer, the line between friendship and something deeper begins to blur. Can two people running from their pasts find what they're really looking for in each other? A contemporary romance about second chances, unexpected connections, and the courage it takes to let someone in.