False Starts | HF 27

• Spicy
• Hidden Identity
• Sports

Wanting him is the real scandal.

Chris Green was an Olympic Golden Boy, the pride of his hometown—until one mistake turned him into a name people won’t say out loud. With his athletics career in ruins, he’s already at rock bottom.

Then a masked man online makes him want something even more impossible than redemption.

Isaiah Owens is a dedicated academic who lives on his own terms. Camming pays the bills, and working at his uncle’s sports agency is just a means to an end. Antagonising the agency’s entitled clients, especially the disgraced athlete he can’t stand is simply a bonus.

Everything is neatly compartmentalised, until Isaiah breaks his one rule and starts falling for a man he’s never met. A man who, despite the mask, sees the parts of him he’s spent a lifetime hiding.

When the truth is revealed, neither of them will get out unscathed.