<p>I've never been one to back down from a challenge.</p><p>Rather than shy away, I grit my teeth and use it as an opportunity to prove myself.</p><p>Not just in football, but also in life.</p><p>Even when I was thrown through a loop in discovering I was bisexual, I embraced it.</p><p>Owning it so no one can use it as ammunition against me.</p><p>But when Ciaráin Grady comes barreling into my life with his venomous tongue and amber eyes brimming with disdain, I realize every test of my character and strength could never have prepared me for the trial he holds.</p><p>One that toes the line of love and hate.</p><p>It's all-consuming and toxic.</p><p>Yet under the layers of revulsion he masks his face with, I see it.</p><p>A glimmer of lust from deep within his secretive, broken soul.</p><p>And when we're thrown together under heinous circumstances, the distinction between enemy and lover begins to blur.</p><p>So...what is Ciaráin Grady to me?</p><p>I'm only certain that he is the greatest challenge of my life.</p><p><br></p><p>*Follow the River is a full-length, mature, new adult bully/enemies-to-lovers MM (male/male) romance with dark themes. There will be triggering content for some readers.*</p>