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

Quinn shrugged. “I was a freshman with a schoolboy crush on a senior, and he was the love of someone else’s life.” Quinn flashed on Daniel with Alí in one of the boxes at Templars Stadium—laughing and clapping, Daniel whispering in his ear, their heads close, almost touching.


Quinn felt a heart-pang at the memory. Daniel had loved Dylan, that much Quinn was sure of. But now he had made a new life with Alí. Does the heart forget, or does it merely go on, tethered nonetheless to the past? We are born with the dead, Tam. See, they return, and bring us with them.


Quinn didn’t want to be mean to Tam, really he didn’t. But he wasn’t going to let him tell him anything about the people he knew, his past, himself. He wasn’t going to let him back in, let him get too close again. He still hadn’t forgiven him. He still hadn’t forgiven himself.


Chapter 63