Playing Rucking Hard: footballer meets cheerleader rugby league sports romance

One night of freedom. One forbidden mistake. One impossible choice. Emma has sacrificed everything—her cheer scholarship, her dream career, her social life—to raise her traumatized little sister after a devastating loss. Taking a job with the Southern Mavericks as a professional cheerleader is her chance to rebuild their lives.

There’s just one unbreakable don’t get involved with the players. Too bad she already did.

Dylan Fleski, the Mavericks’ rugby league fullback and resident heartbreaker, doesn’t do repeats—until one night with a mysterious, no-name stranger changes everything.

He never expected to see her again… let alone find out she’s the new cheerleader he’s not allowed to touch.

Their chemistry is electric. Their connection is real. But with contracts, careers, and a broken family hanging in the balance, giving in could cost them everything.

He wants a second chance. She’s trying to survive the first.

A steamy, emotional sports romance with forbidden love, found family, and a fierce heroine who won’t go down without a fight.

PLAYING RUCKING HARD is an instant attraction, forbidden lovers, spicy NRL football romance in Romance Cafe Publishing’s RUCKED BY YOU series, and is set in the SOUTHERN MAVERICKS rugby league world.