Mouthguards & Mannies

A widowed rugby captain. His best friend’s little brother. One chaotic puppy. And a house that hasn’t felt like home in three years.

Fox

I’ve spent three years keeping everything together. My daughter, my career, my late wife’s memory. I don’t need help, and I definitely don’t need Maverick’s younger brother moving into my guest suite with his lavender hand cream and his quiet way of making my five-year-old laugh harder than she has since her mom died. Jamie Miller was supposed to be temporary. A favor for a favor. Room and board in exchange for watching Elaine while my sister’s away. But he’s braiding my daughter’s hair, and he’s making me feel things I swore I’d never feel again. The last person I loved that much was taken from me by a drunk driver. I’m not sure I can survive it twice.

Jamie

I was supposed to be finishing my thesis. Instead, I’m living in a stone-and-cedar mansion with a stoic, stupidly gorgeous rugby star who won’t look me in the eye, a five-year-old who has already decided I’m her newest bestie, and an eight-pound Cavapoo puppy who is on a quest to personally destroy every pair of shoes I own. Fox Thorne is grieving, guarded, and completely off-limits. He’s also my brother’s best friend, which means if I mess this up, I lose more than a place to live. But every time he lets his guard down, every time he laughs, every time his daughter calls me Jamie-man and reaches for my hand, I fall a little further into a life I never planned on wanting this badly.

Mannies & Mouthguards is a spicy M/M sports romance about a man who built a fortress out of grief and the one person who walks straight through the door. With a scene-stealing puppy, a five-year-old artist-in-training, and a love story that will wreck you before it puts you back together, this is the second standalone novel in the Spicy Sports Romance series.

CONTENT NOTES

This book contains references to the off-page death of a spouse (car accident caused by a drunk driver), grief and loss, a child who does not remember her deceased parent, and explicit M/M sexual content. Intended for readers 18+.

Second Shots is a series of standalones and can be read in any order.