When the playboy quarterback of the hapless New York Templars is injured in a freak sexcapade, backup QB Quinn Novak picks up the ball and takes the team to the playoffs. There he attracts the attention of two other quarterbacks who’ve been rivals since high school, Mal Ryan of the Philadelphia Quakers and Tam Tarquin of the San Francisco Miners.<br><br>Quinn begins a volatile relationship with the narcissistic Mal and a loving one with the open-hearted Tam, keeping each secret from the other. What he doesn’t know is that the two have a complex sexual history of their own.

The Penalty for Holding

“I guess we’ll be seeing more of each other,” Mal whispered in his ear.


His splayed fingers—with their massive ten-inch span from thumb to pinky—spread like tentacles around Quinn’s coiled waist, and he in turn experienced an electric thrill he still felt forbidden to know.5


As the November possibility of snow turned to December certainty, the Temps’ record improved in inverse proportion to Smalley’s mood. Dave Donaldson, it turned out, didn’t have the flu but colon cancer. With him and Lance out for the season at least, it was all on Quinn. Another man would’ve considered it a stroke of luck—no, a blessing from the gridiron gods—to have lost two quarterbacks and not only survived but thrived. Coach Smalley, however, was not another man.


Chapter 12