The Undercard
Steph Sinclair
He’s the best in the business at stopping the bleeding. But her heart is a wound he never saw coming.
Silas Vale is a ghost in the world of boxing—a cutman whose calm hands can seal a gash between rounds and keep a fighter in the game. He’s seen every kind of damage, until he meets Liam “The Lion” Korsakov. A heavyweight contender with a ferocious style and a face that tells the story of every brawl, Liam is a storm of pain both in and out of the ring, fighting to outrun a past that haunts him.
Hired as a last resort, Silas steps into Liam’s corner. It’s a professional arrangement, nothing more. But in the violent, intimate space between rounds, as Silas tends to Liam’s wounds with a touch that’s both clinical and curiously gentle, a different kind of connection forms. Silas sees the broken man behind the fighter’s glare, and Liam feels a peace under his hands that he’s never known.
As they move toward the championship, their forbidden bond deepens. But in a world that only values strength and spectacle, a cutman’s care is seen as a weakness, and a boxer’s heart is the most dangerous thing to leave unguarded. Can their love survive the final bell, or will the biggest fight be the one they can’t win together?
A raw, emotional, and intensely intimate caretaker romance set in the brutal, beautiful world of professional boxing, where the greatest victory is healing the heart.
