Out of Bounds: A Forbidden Coach-Player Beach Volleyball Romance

Wren Hart has one rule: Never let anyone see how badly you want something. On the sand, that rule works. At twenty-one, she's the undersized blocker quietly keeping her Division I beach program afloat, scraping through on a scholarship she cannot afford to lose. Every sunrise practice, every burn in her lungs, is about one thing: getting good enough to go pro and get out. One reckless night before preseason, Wren breaks her rule. At a crowded boardwalk bar, she meets an older stranger with broad shoulders, a wrecked-knuckles kind of past, and eyes that see straight through the armor she wears for coaches and scouts. They talk until last call, almost kiss under the pier lights¿ and then he pulls away and disappears without giving his name. The next morning, he walks onto her beach as the new head coach. Reid Cole needs this job to prove he is more than the scandal that made his name too toxic for any other program to touch. If he can turn a struggling coastal team into a contender, he might finally be allowed to stay in the sport he can't quit. He does not plan on his fiercest, brightest player being the woman from the bar. With a strict no-fraternization policy and an athletic department just waiting for him to screw up, Reid and Wren bury the spark between them in drills, film sessions, and extra reps under the floodlights. The harder they pretend there's nothing there, the hotter it burns. One forbidden moment off the sand shoves them over the line. Wren's scholarship. Reid's second chance. The future she has been building one brutal piece at a time. To keep all three, they'll have to stop living by everyone else's rules and decide for themselves what's really out of bounds. Out of Bounds is an emotionally intense New Adult sports romance about a slow-burn forbidden relationship between a college beach volleyball player and her older, grumpy ex-pro coach, with on-page heat and a hard-won happily ever after. All characters are 21+.