Down By Contact (The Barons #2)
by Santino Hassell
Published by InterMix
M/M contemporary sports romance; enemies-to-lovers
Simeon Boudreaux, the New York Barons’ golden-armed quarterback, is blessed with irresistible New Orleans charm and a face to melt your mama’s heart. He’s universally adored by fans and the media. Coming out as gay in solidarity with his teammate hasn’t harmed his reputation in the least—except for some social media taunting from rival linebacker Adrián Bravo.
Though they were once teammates, Adrián views Simeon as a traitor and the number-one name on the New Jersey Predators’ shit list. When animosity between the two NFL players reaches a boiling point on the field, culminating in a dirty fist fight, they’re both benched for six games and sentenced to joint community service teaching sullen, Brooklyn teens how to play ball.
At first, they can barely stand to be in the same room, but running the camp forces them to shape up. With no choice but to work together, Simeon realizes Adrián is more than his alpha-jerk persona, and Adrián begins to question why he’s always had such strong feelings for the gorgeous QB…
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DOWN BY CONTACT is out January 16, 2018.
Teaser:
I swear I hated Simeon and the effect he had on
my traitorous asshole of a body.
"Yeah, however you want to say it. I
freaked out. Shouldn't have pushed you and sent you home with, uh-" I
licked my lips again, glancing down at his crotch. The heavy curve of his dick
was clearly visible through his track pants. "With-"
"Blue balls?"
I exhaled with a whoosh of air.
"Yeah."
"It's okay. There's still time to redeem
yourself."
"Redeem myself," I repeated slowly.
"I dunno about all that."
"I thought you were inviting me over for
wings and football and all that bro shit?"
"Oh. Right."
Simeon's evil smile went up several notches.
"What'd you think I meant, boo?"
"Nothing."
"Okay, Bravo. I'll think about it."
He was backing me into corner after corner, and
I kept following and slamming into walls that had apparently encircled my
common sense. The last thing I needed was to keep stretching this out after the
gay rumors had just started to fade. Instead of pairing us up, they were
implying we were sitting on a pressure cooker due to our teams playing not even
a month after the brawl.
But even knowing all that, I couldn't stop
myself. He was talking to me again, giving me a shot, and agreeing to once
again spend time with me even after I'd flipped out on him. I needed to nurture
that willingness before I lost it again. Considering how precarious our moments
of getting along were, I was gonna have to make a comeback in a big way.
About Santino Hassell:
Santino
Hassell was raised by a conservative family but grew up to be a smart-mouthed,
school cutting grunge kid, a transient twenty-something, and eventually
transformed into a grumpy introvert and unlikely romance author with an
affinity for baseball caps. His novels are heavily influenced by the gritty,
urban landscape of New York City, and his desire to write relationships fueled
by intensity and passion.
He’s been
a finalist in both the Bisexual Book Awards and the EPIC Awards, and was
nominated for a prestigious RITA award in 2017. His work has been featured in
BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Washington Post, RT Magazine, and Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
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