Down By Contact: A Second Chance Gay Sports Romance by Quinn Ward

Description

Football is easy. Love is the dangerous play.

Down By Contact by Quinn Ward delivers a deeply emotional second-chance gay sports romance packed with unresolved heartbreak, forced proximity, hidden longing, and the terrifying risk of being truly seen.

To the world, Zach is a rising football star: a wide receiver with a career to protect, a public image to maintain, and no room for distractions. Retreating to a secluded beach house before training camp, he plans to focus entirely on proving himself after a breakout rookie season.

Then reality television crashes through the front door.

The documentary crew assigned to follow Zach includes Griffin, the ex-boyfriend who shattered his heart years earlier and disappeared for reasons Zach never fully understood. Behind the camera lens, old chemistry reignites instantly, dragging buried feelings back into the open like waves pulling wreckage onto shore.

Griffin never stopped loving Zach. He walked away believing it was the only way to protect Zach’s future, even if it destroyed his own. Now trapped together in close quarters while cameras hover nearby, both men are forced to confront the secrets, sacrifices, and fears that drove them apart.

As the pressure of fame, football, and the closet closes in, their rekindled connection becomes both a refuge and a threat. One wrong moment could expose everything Zach has worked for. But denying what still exists between them may hurt even more.

Blending emotional vulnerability, sports drama, beach-house intimacy, and slow-burning romantic tension, Down By Contact is perfect for readers who love closeted athletes, media scandals, aching reunions, emotional angst, and hard-earned happily-ever-afters.

A tender, high-stakes romance where the most frightening thing isn’t losing the game, but risking your heart on a second chance.

Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9798199101622