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Hamstrings and High Fives: An Enemies-to-Lovers Soccer Romance
Paperback
Series: Ale[x] M. - [Contemporary Novel Series], Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Rafael Duarte was the best striker in Europe - until a shattered ankle made him a headline: Finished at 29.
Now he's in the MSL on a prove them wrong comeback contract with one condition: clear a minimum number of matches, or the club voids the deal and his career is over for real.
The one person standing between him and the pitch is Dr. Nora Callahan.
Nora is Ironvale FC's Director of Sports Medicine. She lost her father to a doctor who cleared him to play through a knee injury because he didn't want to lose a paying client. She rebuilt her entire career around one rule: protocol over pressure, every time, no exceptions - even for franchise-saving comeback strikers.
Forced into daily rehab sessions, neither wants it. Both are stuck with it.
Rafa tries charm. Then frustration. Then genuine effort to get her to accelerate his timeline. Nora doesn't move the line for anyone - but she starts seeing the fear under the charm.
And then Rafa does the one thing Nora swore she'd never forgive: he hides his pain from her.
Not a lie about feelings. A lie about the exact thing she built her career around preventing - off-book treatment sessions, pushing his own timeline, repeating the pattern that broke her father. When Nora discovers it, she has to choose: protect her career, or protect the man she's falling for.
But the boring way - the slow, honest, unglamorous way - might be the only way that actually works.
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