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Fast Breaks & Fallen Hearts
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He looked at Ezra exactly once on the first morning of practice.
Then he looked away.
When point guard Ezra Cole is traded to the Chicago Titans, he expects a team to run, a system to learn, and a city to figure out. What he does not expect is Marcus Davenport - four-time All-Star, two-time champion, the most guarded man in professional basketball - who sees Ezra in a single glance and spends the next nine months pretending he didn't.
Marcus Davenport has spent thirty-one years managing the distance between who he is and who the world expects him to be. He has a partner, a legacy, a carefully constructed public life, and a 2019 Finals loss he has been carrying like a wound that never fully closed. He does not need a new point guard turning everything inside out.
But Ezra Cole is not what anyone expected.
What begins in a film room at seven in the morning - two men building a shared language out of film sessions, skip passes, and the specific silence of a space where neither of them has to perform - becomes something neither of them planned and both of them already knew. A parking garage conversation that gets recorded. A rooftop in Miami at midnight. A balcony in New York where Marcus touches Ezra's jaw for exactly one second and says: I'm not ready. And Ezra says: I know.
And then February. A leaked story. A management meeting. A decision that cannot be undone.
Marcus Davenport is not going to deny him.
Fast Breaks & Fallen Hearts is a slow-burn LGBTQ+ romance set against the backdrop of a professional basketball season - a story about two men who fall in love the way all the best things happen: slowly, then completely, in the language of the work they love most. It is a story about the cost of living at the managed surface of yourself, and what becomes available when you stop. About a team that holds. A family that was already waiting. A city that cheers.
And a Sunday morning that was always going to be yours.
For readers who love sports romance with emotional depth, slow-burn tension that earns every moment, Black love stories told with care and complexity, and the kind of ending that feels not like a conclusion but like a beginning.
The game was never the whole thing.
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