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

It wasn’t long before the New York tabloids were wondering if the Temps’ QB was dating the enemy—in the form of Tam’s sister Bev, with Kim serving as chaperone.


“Congratulations,” Brenna said during one of their quasi-professional interviews/heart-to heart phone calls.


“Brenna, it isn’t what you think.”


“No, we’re just friends.” God, was a lamer thought ever uttered? He longed to tell Brenna the truth, to take her into his confidence. But he couldn’t. Not yet.


And he and Tam’s sisters were friends, maybe more than that.


“It’s nice,” he said one day at lunch in his loft. “I never had siblings.”


Chapter 64