Title: Offside (Open Play #3)
Author: Riley Bauer
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: August 6, 2026
Genre(s): Contemporary, Soccer
Page Count: 189
Blurb:
Radek Šíma and Tomáš Hájek were teammates first. Best friends after that. And somewhere along the way, on the road, between matches, they became something neither of them has ever said out loud.
It started once. Then it kept happening.
Now the World Cup has brought the whole Czech squad to Atlanta, the semifinals are days away, and the thing Šíma and Tomáš have been pretending isn’t real is getting harder to leave in the dark.
Offside is the third book in the Open Play MM soccer romance series, a steamy friends-to-lovers story about two men, one situationship that was never supposed to mean anything, and a tournament that keeps raising the stakes.
Each book in the Open Play series follows a different couple and can be read on its own, though characters return throughout. For readers who love slow-burn MM sports romance, found-family teammates, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Heat Level: Steamy POV: Dual POV, present tense, Series: Open Play, Book 3
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Open Play Series
About Riley Bauer
Riley Bauer writes MM love stories for people who think they’re too complicated for love stories. She is fascinated by the intersection of high-stakes environments and intimate character growth, a passion that fuels her sports romance projects and she firmly believes that every found family deserves a championship seasons. Riley currently lives in the Southeast, where she is hard at work on her next novel while trying to get her cat to stop laying on her laptop.
