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Line of the Ball
Paperback
Series: The Windward Cup Dynasty, Book 1
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Elias Keane
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He was paid to break Julian Rosemont's heart. He wasn't supposed to want to keep it.
Mason Caldwell has ninety days before the bank takes the only home he's ever had. So when a stranger in a suit worth more than Mason's truck offers him a fortune to play a sport he's never touched, for a team he's never heard of, Mason doesn't ask questions.
He should have asked questions.
Julian Rosemont is everything Mason isn't: old money, unbeaten, born into a polo dynasty with a trophy case older than most countries. He's also Mason's assignment. Get close. Get inside his head. Win.
Nobody tells Mason why it has to be Julian specifically. Nobody tells Julian there's a reason at all.
What starts as a job turns into something neither of them planned for: stolen nights in hotel rooms that don't officially exist, a rivalry that burns hotter every time their horses collide, and a captain who's spent his whole life performing perfection finally letting someone see him crack. Mason was supposed to stay untouchable. Julian was supposed to stay unknowable. Somewhere in the space between chukkers and secrets, they both stopped following the rules.
But the deal that saved Mason's ranch has strings attached that go back further than either of them knows, and when the truth finally surfaces, it won't just end the season.
It might end them.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Secretly-hired-to-target-him romance
- Fish-out-of-water meets old-money dynasty
- Enemies-to-lovers with a slow, brutal burn
- A morally gray puppet master with his own tragic wreckage
- Found family in a locker room full of people hiding the same thing
Mason came to Windward Fields to save a ranch. He didn't come here to fall in love with the one man he was hired to destroy. Too late.
Line of the Ball is Book One of the Windward Cup Dynasty, an M/M and F/F sports romance trilogy. Queer love, every genre, always a happy ending - but you'll have to earn this one.
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