Every year on February 25th, Dante Jones sets an alarm.
Not for practice. Not for a game. For Ranae.
It’s been their tradition since they were kids — race to midnight, be the first to sing happy birthday. Even after she married someone else. Even after the calls between birthdays stopped. Even after Dante spent years watching her belong to a man he never trusted, loving her from a distance the only way he knew how.
This year, when she answers the phone, she isn’t laughing.
She’s crying.
Her husband didn’t just miss her thirtieth birthday — he served her divorce papers the day before it. By the time Ranae finishes telling Dante everything, he’s already off the phone, already calling his coach, already booking a flight to Denver.
He’ll take the fine. He’ll miss the game. He’s been waiting ten years to be there when she finally needed him — he’s not about to start being late now.
Ranae has always known Dante was her best friend. What she didn’t know — what her ex-husband somehow always suspected — is that Dante has never just been her friend.
And now that she’s free, he only has one shot to show her.
His Only Shot is a swoony friends to lovers sports romance and Book 3 in the LA Stars series.
