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

At Pina’s backyard party, she wept as she led some of the ladies in a graceful dance. A gamelan group offered traditional music, then accompanied Tam’s iTunes selections most harmoniously, including the song the couple had chosen for their first dance, George Michael’s Father Figure.The guests clapped rhythmically as Quinn and Tam took turns leading, whirling each other around.


As the song reached its plagal conclusion, with its Eastern flavor, Quinn and Tam kissed. It was, Quinn decided, however secret, the perfect marriage of East and West.33


“It’s all for the best,” Syd said—in a manner that was somewhat self-congratulatory, Quinn thought—when they returned to Jakarta and informed her and Chan that not only was the wedding off but the past—hers, Quinn’s and whatever happened in Bali—would remain there.


“Well, I have to say that took real courage,” Chan said, raising a glass to both of them at a farewell luncheon. “I salute you both.”


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