The Snap

Bryce Crawford has spent four years trying to solve Dexter Boyd. The problem isn’t only that Texas’s most feared defensive lineman sacks him exactly four times whenever they play. It’s that Dex knows how Bryce looks right before he panics—and Bryce can’t stop thinking about the bastard long enough to decide whether he wants to beat him or get under him.

Landing on the same college roster should make them teammates. Instead, training camp puts their old rivalry under a brighter spotlight and turns every drill, stare, and collision into something dangerously personal.

Bryce has built his life around control. Dex has built his around knowing exactly when to take it. Forced into each other’s space and too obsessed to back down, they’re about to learn that the line between hate and hunger is thin as hell—and much easier to cross than either of them planned.