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

“Leave me alone,” Tam said, jumping into the car.


“Tam, I met him before you,” Quinn offered as he leaned into it. “Surely, you must’ve thought I had dated. And I certainly thought there were others before you met me.”


“I never in a million years imagined it would be him,” he hissed. And with that, he took off. But Quinn wasn’t about to let him leave, not like this. He was afraid if he did, what they had would end right there right now forever. So he roared off after him in his roadster and nearly crashed into him as Tam stopped short at the bottom of the long drive.


“Are you crazy? You must be crazy. It figures. I should’ve known. All my life it’s been like this. First him, now you. I must be destined never to be happy in love.”


Quinn got into the seat beside him, gazing at him as Tam stared straight ahead.


“For what it’s worth,” Quinn said softly, “I never loved him the way I love you.”


Chapter 38