Offside Rules

<p><em>Sometimes love takes balls.</em></p><p>Newly retired championship football player Simon Wood is taking on his next challenge. His plan for a charity to provide funding for underprivileged children to pursue football as a career has passed its first hurdle: he has backers and an executive consultant. Now it’s time to get the ball rolling.</p><p>Lucien Morel heir to the multibillion-euro Morel Corporation is shocked—and thrilled—to learn his father has volunteered him as consultant to a fledgling football charity. Better yet the brains behind it all is heartthrob Simon Wood his teenage idol and crush.</p><p>Although Simon and Lucien get off on the wrong foot it’s not long before they’re getting along like a house on fire—sparks included.</p><p>But with the charity under public scrutiny can their romance thrive?</p><p> </p><p><em>Previously published as The Athlete and the Aristocrat</em></p>