by Britney Mills
Series: The Love Playbook #4
Community rating: 5/5 from 1 rating.
Laney Zelinski knows how to keep things professional. As a sideline reporter, she’s great at asking the right questions, hitting her marks, and rolling with whatever comes her way. She loves her job, loves the chaos of game days, and loves the life she’s built. She just wishes she had someone steady standing beside her when the cameras shut off.
Burton knows how to play the game. On the field, he reads angles, lines, and timing with instinctive ease. Off the field, he’s careful not to cross into territory that requires long-term answers, because wanting something steady feels like tempting fate when nothing in his life feels settled yet.
So after one extremely questionable roommate hobby, a run-in with a fainting goat named Pearl, and a very unexpected kiss under fireworks pull them into each other’s orbit, they both agree on one thing: this is just for fun.
Except Burton starts pulling away the moment things feel real—convinced Laney deserves someone steadier than a guy juggling restaurant shifts, injuries, and a career that never quite looks impressive on paper. And Laney, who’s used to first dates that never turn into second ones, refuses to chase someone who won’t choose her.
With opposite schedules, mounting doubts, and a line they’re both afraid to cross, Laney and Burton have to decide what really matters: playing it safe… or risking their hearts for something that might finally last.
A laugh-out-loud, closed-door sports romcom full of banter, found family, slow-burn chemistry, and one very dramatic goat—Don’t Crosse the Line proves that sometimes the only line worth crossing is the one you drew around your own worth.
Genres: Sports Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romance
Tropes: Banter, Slow Burn Romance, Roommates, Found Family
ISBN: 9781954237650
318 pages
Published: 2026-02-27
Publisher: Opal Ink Publishing