A Fighting Chance (Knockout Series)

She's spent three years building the career he could destroy with one word.

Sports therapist Mara Calloway has rules: stay professional, stay focused, and under no circumstances fall for the infuriating, too-handsome heavyweight champion sitting in her treatment chair. Dominic Reyes is arrogant, relentless, and the only fighter she's ever wanted to walk away from — which is unfortunate, because his manager just hired her exclusively for his championship comeback.

Dom doesn't need a babysitter. He needs a corner team that believes he can win, not a woman with skeptical eyes and a clipboard who questions every decision he makes. The problem is, she's always right. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember exactly why they can't stand each other.

Tension bleeds through every session. Every argument ends a heartbeat too close. Every grudging moment of trust pulls them further from the boundary they've both agreed to respect.

But championships have deadlines. Contracts end. And when the fight that defines Dom's entire career arrives, Mara is forced to choose between the professional distance that protects her — and the man who fought his way past every wall she built without ever throwing a single punch.

Some battles happen outside the ring. Those are the ones that leave the deepest marks.

*A Fighting Chance* is the first book in the Knockout Series — and it hits hard.