The Kicker: Sports Romance

Callahan Stuart, star kicker for the NFL expansion team Portland Mountain Lions, is a savior.

At least, he constantly strives to be.

Problem is, he tries to save the wrong people. Usually women who don’t actually want to be saved. They just want the bonuses that come with dating a famous footballer.

Callahan finally, finally is done.

With dating.

With saving people.

With everything except football.

That is all that matters anyway. Out on that field, he’s a star.

Always.

So why bother trying to find happiness anywhere else?

Enter Emma Munising, team photographer and, generally, giant pain in his ass. She is also brilliant, cheeky, confident, and everything he’d always avoided in potential romantic relationships.

Maybe he’s dating the wrong type of women. Maybe he needs to take a chance on someone who might be his equal. Or, hell, better than him.

Except Emma has issues of her own, and they aren’t the sort Callahan can easily overcome.

Just when he figures they should settle for the friend zone, one of his crazy exes pops back into his life, and Callahan gut reacts by telling her that he’s seeing someone new.

And then he sends her a picture of Emma.

This whole let’s-be-friends concept is not going as planned.