Grant McQuaid has dedicated his entire life to his football career. Now an injury threatens his place on the team and heâs forced to return home to rehabilitate. But when he meets his âbiggest fan,â a precocious, blue-eyed, hearing impaired boy named Jamesâand his beautiful mother, BethanyâGrant begins to question whether football is the future he still wants.
Bethany Mills has been doing just fine since her husband walked out on themâĻ and she definitely doesnât need another man to disappoint herâor her son. But when James runs into his hero at the park, Bethany admits there is a void in her sonâs life that she just canât fill. Her attraction to the handsome football star is undeniable, but a man in the limelight is the last thing she wants for herself, or James.
Grant doesnât want to subject Bethany to the chaos of dating a professional athlete. But the more time he spends with her and James, the harder it is to resist making a play for her heartâĻ
T. J. Kline was bitten by the horse bug early and began training horses at fourteenâas well as competing in rodeos and winning several rodeo queen competitionsâbut has always known writing was her first love. She also writes under the name Tina Klinesmith. In her spare time, she can be found spending as many hours as possible laughing hysterically with her husband, teens, and their menagerie of pets in Northern California. That is, when she isn't running around the California Gold Country researching new stories.