Road Game Hearts

A perfectionist tennis star never planned to share her season, her seat, or her heart with the school’s guarded transfer player, but one away-game pairing turns bus rides and mixed doubles into first love.

Ayla has one rule on away-game mornings: arrive early, take the same seat, and keep her season under control.

Then Cole takes Row Four.

He is the quiet new transfer with a strong game, a complicated home life, and a way of noticing things Ayla would rather keep hidden. When a last-minute mixed-doubles pairing throws them onto the same side of the court, bus rides become dangerous, road games become personal, and every match starts asking harder questions than either of them expected.

Ayla is chasing a future that is finally beginning to open in front of her. Cole is trying to hold his family together inside a life that keeps shifting under his feet. Falling for each other was never part of the plan. But somewhere between team buses, pressure points, and the middle of the court, they discover that the biggest risk may not be losing.

It may be wanting something real enough to change them both.

Road Game Hearts is a clean YA sports romance about first love, away-game closeness, team bus chemistry, and learning that the middle is not always where things fall apart. Sometimes it is where they finally get held.