Fighting Spirit

<p><strong>It's Time To Take One For The Team</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>As the mascot for Allbreck University's football team the last thing Ruth expects during a late-night practice session is getting thrown over someone's shoulder and stuffed into the back of a minivan.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>She's been kidnapped by players from Beaufort College Allbreck's fiercest rivals in some kind of prank-gone-wrong. When all hell breaks loose and the perpetrators bail it's Rowan - their intriguing center - who gets left to pick up the pieces.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Ruth doesn't need another catastrophe with the unmanaged ADHD that's taking over her life and a sort-of-ex who acts like they were never more than friends she's got enough to deal with. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>All she wants is a way to get home unfortunately the only guy who can help is the one who wants nothing to do with this night and even less to do with her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When Rowan accepts a coaching job for after graduation he knows that things are going to change. He just didn't think that that change would feel like losing everything before his last playing season is even over.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>His dad's disappointed in him his head coach's expectations are growing and his teammates treat him more like staff than one of their own.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When his team shows up drunk one night with their rivals' kidnapped mascot they assume that once again he'll clean up their mess. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But when she takes off the oversized toad head and he gets his first look at those big green eyes he realizes he might have bigger issues.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Even long after the night is over their connection keeps pulling them back together. But Ruth can't handle any more distractions and Rowan can't give his team any more reasons not to trust him. With everything to play for and their hearts on the line can they make it into the end zone?</span></p>