Intentional Grounding

By Alia Turin

Deal Ends: Wed 21st October

She's protecting her byline. He's protecting a secret. And the story of the year is the one neither of them can afford to tell.Callie Carter's byline used to mean something. Then one article about the San Antonio Outlaws' medical program made her the most hated journalist in Texas football — and cost the team's golden-boy quarterback his best friend. Four years later she's a single mom with two boys, a mortgage, and six photographs in her desk drawer that could end Nate Rivers's career for good.The team sends Nate to charm her into silence. He's never met a room he couldn't win — until her. Callie is immune to the smile, still right about the article, and not remotely interested in the most wanted man in the league. Then the front office plants him on the sideline of her son's youth team as a PR play, and the quarterback who was supposed to be handling her starts looking forward to Saturdays for reasons that have nothing to do with the assignment.She had a plan for him being charming. She had no plan for him being real.This isn't a rom-com that stays one. What starts as enemies-to-lovers banter takes a hard turn into a story about what people will sacrifice for the truth and their careers — grief, second chances, and the family you build where you least expect it. The grovel has forty thousand witnesses. The ending is earned.Tropes & tone:• Enemies to lovers — a real grievance, not a misunderstanding• Single mom• Golden boy who falls first and earns every inch back• Forced proximity: the sideline, the story, the small town inside a big team• Found family — the Outlaws locker room, opinions included• Open door · emotional depth · guaranteed HEA · standaloneBook One of the San Antonio Outlaws. Each book follows a different couple