Before Sunday Night Kings Before the Goal Line

She represents the quarterback fighting to keep his future. She is falling for the quarterback waiting to reclaim his.Katy Gogan has spent sixteen years learning how dangerous the demand for certainty can become in professional sport.She comes to Kingsport with one objective: secure veteran quarterback Marcus Dane the contract his career deserves without allowing another athlete's injury to become negotiating leverage.Then she meets Wambui Kipkosgei.Wambui is younger, talented, newly transferred to the Sunday Night Kings and facing the one opponent he cannot outthink: an injury with no convenient return date. Everyone wants him to recover faster. Coaches want answers. The media wants a headline. The organisation wants to know when its future quarterback will be ready.Wambui wants control of his own future.Katy should be the last woman he notices.She represents the man competing for his position, and every conversation between them carries professional consequences. But attraction refuses to remain theoretical. Incidental meetings become deliberate ones. Professional respect becomes personal trust. And the relationship they know they should avoid becomes increasingly impossible to deny.So they create rules.No confidential information. No interference with each other's careers. No medical advice. No hidden professional favours. No deciding what the other person should sacrifice.But rules cannot stop other people from creating their own version of the truth.When anonymous leaks, manipulated messaging and a private photograph threaten to turn Wambui's rehabilitation and Katy's career into weapons, both must decide how much control they are willing to surrender and how much of themselves they refuse to lose.Katy's partnership ambitions are suddenly on the line. Wambui's place on the field remains uncertain. And loving each other may become the easiest evidence for everyone determined to question their judgement.Because Wambui refuses to rush his body to prove he wants football badly enough.And Katy refuses to destroy another athlete to prove she deserves power.Their future cannot be built on one person disappearing so the other can win.It has to belong to both of them.Before the Goal Line is a high-heat contemporary football romance featuring a forbidden sports-agent relationship, an injured rookie quarterback, secret romance, professional boundaries, career conflict, forced restraint, public scandal, emotional intimacy and a complete, hard-earned happily ever after. Katy ultimately builds her own practice, Wambui earns his starting role through training, and their HEA closes with a shared home while preserving both careers.