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

“What’s the matter, my love?” Tam said. “Oh, Quinnie, don’t you see? Even if we never find him, I will be your father, mother, brother, everything, and you will be mine.” He took him in his arms.


“Oh, who’s going to see or know? And anyway, who cares? It’s the twenty-first century, for God’s sake.”


But even in the twenty-first century, there were still people who cared, especially in this part of the world, Quinn thought as he kissed Tam lightly at first, then deeply, feverishly, hands roaming wildly, his whole body lit by lightning, still playing with fire like the young Prometheus who had been his touchstone. From the restaurant, he could hear Adele wailing Fire to the Rain—or was it merely the soundtrack that throbbed in his head?


Chapter 85