Ruck Me Harder

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She tackles. He tumbles. They both fall... hard.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm a rugby player in the twilight of my career. Younger stronger prettier women are joining the team and my endorsement deals are drying up. Nobody wants a grumpy washed-up burned out has-been to advertise their brand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When my new teammate sets me up on a blind date with her brother I begrudgingly agree for the sake of team harmony... until I find out I already know her </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>other</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> brother.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Gymnast Tony Gonzales is the bane of my existence. I hit rock bottom the morning after our Olympics hookup three years ago; I stopped drinking entirely and I've changed my whole life around since then.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now he's everywhere a taunting reminder of every challenge and failure I've endured. But the more time I spend with him I start to wonder if maybe I was too quick to judge. It's not his fault he's tangled up with all of my worst memories. And I can't deny his drive - to succeed in gymnastics to go to vet school to take care of his family - is incredibly sexy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rugby is brutal. Gymnastics is intense. But nothing has ever felt as dangerous as falling for each other.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>RUCK ME HARDER is an enemies to lovers best friend's brother they're both athletes romance featuring a tattooed leather jacket-wearing motorcycle-riding gymnast and the black cat women's rugby superstar who just wants to be loved. There is no third-act breakup.</strong></p>