Hooks In (No Holds Barred Book 1)

When you've spent years hating someone, learning to fight beside them might just break you — or break everything you thought you knew about yourself.

Ty Roscoe and Luca Mitchell have been tearing each other apart in the MMA rankings for years. Evenly matched, relentlessly competitive, and dangerously skilled, they've made careers out of dismantling each other's dominance one fight at a time. The rivalry doesn't stay in the cage either — it bleeds into every interaction, every stolen glance, every sneer traded across a crowded arena. They know exactly how to get under each other's skin, and they've never thought twice about doing it.

Then an invitation to train at one of the most elite MMA gyms in the country changes everything. Each man assumes he's finally leaving the other behind for good. They're both wrong.

Forced to share a gym, a coach, and a brutal training program, Ty and Luca find themselves on the same side for the first time — and it's far more dangerous than any fight they've stepped into together. The aggression doesn't disappear. It transforms into something neither man is prepared to name, let alone act on.

*Hooks In* is a scorching LGBTQ+ sports romance with dark edges and even darker tension, set in the unforgiving world of professional MMA. When hatred and desire become impossible to tell apart, the real fight is only just beginning.