<p><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">She tackles. He tumbles. They both fall... hard.</em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I'm a rugby player in the twilight of my career. Younger, stronger, prettier women are joining the team, and my endorsement deals are drying up. Nobody wants a grumpy, washed-up, burned out has-been to advertise their brand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">When my new teammate sets me up on a blind date with her brother, I begrudgingly agree for the sake of team harmony... until I find out I already know her </span><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">other</em><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)"> brother.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Gymnast Tony Gonzales is the bane of my existence. I hit rock bottom the morning after our Olympics hookup three years ago; I stopped drinking entirely, and I've changed my whole life around since then.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Now, he's everywhere, a taunting reminder of every challenge and failure I've endured. But the more time I spend with him, I start to wonder if maybe I was too quick to judge. It's not his fault he's tangled up with all of my worst memories. And I can't deny his drive - to succeed in gymnastics, to go to vet school, to take care of his family - is incredibly sexy.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Rugby is brutal. Gymnastics is intense. But nothing has ever felt as dangerous as falling for each other.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">RUCK ME HARDER is an enemies to lovers, best friend's brother, they're both athletes romance featuring a tattooed, leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding gymnast and the black cat women's rugby superstar who just wants to be loved. There is no third-act breakup.</strong></p>
