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Offside Hearts
A Friends-to-Lovers Slow Burn, Marriage of Convenience Hockey RomanceBy Devyn Frost
Length7h 10m
About this audiobook
The scar above Dante Rossi's eyebrow throbs before the first session of every season. He got it at ten years old, on asphalt, with his mother pressing a towel to his face while Mateo screamed from the stroller.
February fog still clings to the hills beyond the east stands, and the San Miguel City training pitch smells of wet grass and new line paint. Coach Torres puts him on the blue bibs, which means feeding balls to the new man instead of burying them himself.
Red hair, almost orange in that light. He wears his shin guards high, old-school, and his boots are scuffed at the toes the way boots get when a player trusts his touch. Liam O'Connell, three million from a second-tier Irish club. He kills a ball dead on wet grass, flicks it over Jasper Kane's outstretched foot, and then smiles - not at anyone, just *at the grass, at the morning, at the sheer stupid joy of having pulled something off.*
They collide. Then the rooming board goes up with their names paired, and Jasper says *Well, well. Roommates* to the back of Dante's head.
Dante is a professional footballer raising a fourteen-year-old. Mateo is his brother, his responsibility, and there is a social worker who calls to schedule home visits, a folder of custody paperwork on the nightstand he still has not filled out, and a school fight that is going to end up in a file. Their mother died two years ago in a car crash. Everything in the apartment has its spot, because a neat apartment says: *This is stable. This is fine. Nothing wrong here.*
Liam is not built for that. He wears a hearing aid in his left ear, from a car accident when he was seventeen, and he says the things other people manage not to say. *I'm trying here, Rossi. Meet me halfway.*
What stands in the way is not a league office. It is Jasper, who wants the armband and has found a reporter with a notebook. It is a home visit and a report already being drafted. It is Dante's private conviction that every moment of joy carries a tax, and the tax collector always comes due.
And it is Mateo, fourteen, who watched the training footage on the news at a friend's house and said *He's cute* purely to watch his brother turn red.
A closed-door MM sports romance about two strikers at the same club, a kid brother who is worth everything, and a man working out whether he can stand to be seen.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Collision I Should Have Seen Coming
2Chapter 2 - The Uninvited Guest in My Head
3Chapter 3 - The Room I Swore I’d Never Share
4Chapter 4 - The Trap I Walked Into With My Eyes Open
5Chapter 5 - The Drink That Tasted Like Trust
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6Chapter 6 - The Morning After the Almost
7Chapter 7 - The Front Door I Couldn’t Lock
8Chapter 8 - The Email That Made a Ripple
9Chapter 9 - The Kiss That Broke the Seal
10Chapter 10 - The Visit That Opened My Eyes
11Chapter 11 - The Apology That Cost Me Pride
12Chapter 12 - The Retreat Where We Found a Teammate
13Chapter 13 - The Public Face of a Secret
14Chapter 14 - The Cross I Couldn’t Carry Alone
15Chapter 15 - The Breaking Point No One Warned Me About
16Chapter 16 - The Noise I Couldn’t Silence
17Chapter 17 - The Player Who Fell Apart on National TV
18Chapter 18 - The Talk That Didn’t Fix Everything
19Chapter 19 - The Confession That Changed the Game
20Chapter 20 - The Fallout I Was Ready For
21Chapter 21 - The First Public Date (and the Second)
22Chapter 22 - The Lake House Where We Built a Future
23Chapter 23 - The Offside Rule We Learned to Love
24Epilogue
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Devyn Frost
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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