They’ve spent years trying to out-think each other. Wanting each other was always the more dangerous game.

Derek Cole is methodical, disciplined, and almost impossible to rattle.

Nadia Reyes is instinctive, ambitious, and always looking for the next advantage.

As coaches for rival clubs, they’ve spent years circling each other — watching, challenging, and refusing to acknowledge how much of their attention has stopped being professional.

Then one tournament weekend changes everything. After that, there’s no going back to pretending the line still exists.

But Derek coaches for Maple Valley Premier. Nadia’s career belongs to Capital City United. Their clubs compete for wins, players, and reputation — and the closer Derek and Nadia become, the more carefully they have to protect the work that mattered long before they came together.

Because trust doesn’t mean telling each other everything. Love doesn’t make ambition disappear. And when they finally meet with everything on the line, only one of them gets to win.

A steamy rivals-to-lovers soccer romance with competitive chemistry, sharp banter, ambitious leads, and a hard-earned HEA, Out of Bounds is Book Three in the Maple Valley Premier series, an interconnected romance series about the people who live, work, and fall in love around the world of competitive youth soccer. It can be read as a standalone.