Elias Vaughn had it all. Heisman. First-round pick. A girl with a smart mouth and a future in medicine who kissed him on the fifty-yard line the night before the draft.
Then his knee went. Then the phone calls stopped. Then he disappeared.
Five years later, he's back at Westbrook as a graduate assistant coach with one season to prove he still belongs. The first person he runs into is Dr. Renata Cole, and she has spent five years deciding that he isn't worth the second look.
She has a fellowship. She has a rule. She has everything she promised herself she'd have without him.
But a player gets hurt, and the team needs both of them in the same room for eight long weeks. The truth about what happened five years ago is on the table now, and neither of them can pretend it isn't.
He walked away once. He isn't going to do it again.
A second chance college football romance with a slow, earned happily ever after.
