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

“That’s right,” he said. “You heard Coach Olds. This is my team now.”


If Quinn were truly evil—well, maybe not a wholly evil person but just an instigator like the goddess Eris, tossing an apple of discord here and there—he realized he would’ve hacked Casey’s email account and sicced him on Trent Birdwell, the president of the student body, who held sway in Professor Marc Dolenz’s The Literature of Rejection class with a psychological menace that rivaled Casey’s physical monstrosity.


Chapter 48