After Red Zone Hearts After the Sunday Night Paperback

She came to Redmont to protect professional athletes from bad decisions. Three days later, she is married to the quarterback.Marissa Villanueva did not join the Red Zone Hearts to become part of the story.As the expansion football team's new head of performance nutrition, she wants one thing: build a programme where players know exactly what goes into their bodies and exactly who has access to their private information.Then she meets Aron Musya.Redmont's first round quarterback is talented, intensely private and already the face of a franchise that has not played its first meaningful game.He also reads every line people hope he will ignore.Their first argument should have ended in Marissa's office.Instead, it makes Aron the first player willing to challenge a sponsor beside her.When unlabelled supplements appear inside the facility, a rookie ends up in hospital and an approval document surfaces carrying Marissa's signature from before she even joined the club, the scandal explodes.Then photographs of Marissa leaving Aron's house after midnight give the media exactly the story it wants.A secret relationship.Professional favouritism.A compromised investigation.None of it is true.But truth is suddenly costing Marissa her career, Aron a multimillion dollar endorsement and the team a community programme that cannot survive another delay.The solution is outrageous.Temporary.Carefully negotiated.And legally binding.Marriage.Separate lawyers. Separate finances. Separate bedrooms. No invented romantic history. No control over each other's careers. Every boundary written down before either of them says yes.It should be the safest possible arrangement between two people who barely know each other.There is only one problem.The attraction is real.Living together makes distance impossible. Public scrutiny turns every touch into evidence. Professional boundaries become harder to ignore when Aron is the athlete Marissa sometimes has to protect from his own determination, and Marissa is the woman Aron wants to defend even when she refuses to let protection become control.Soon the marriage designed to survive a scandal begins creating something neither contract anticipated.Trust.Desire.Home.And when the investigation threatens them again, Marissa and Aron will have to decide whether the future they planned before meeting is still the future either of them wants.Because a temporary marriage has an end date.Falling in love does not.After the Sunday Night is a high heat contemporary sports romance featuring a rookie quarterback, sports nutritionist heroine, marriage of convenience, forbidden workplace attraction, opposites attract chemistry, public scandal, forced proximity, protective hero energy, open door heat and a complete happily ever after. Marissa and Aron's relationship becomes real by the ending, while Red Zone Hearts continues with a new central couple in Home Field Rules.