Punchlines and Uppercuts

Boxing gloves, blackmail, and banter… what could possibly go wrong?

Rowan Blake has two fight or flirt. Unfortunately for her, Malik Carter seems immune to both. The grumpy boxing coach with the velvet voice and cinnamon-roll heart is the only man in the gym who refuses to rise to her bait...until a charity tournament forces them onto the same team.

He’s calm. She’s chaos.
He plans. She punches first and apologizes never.

What starts as an insult-trading partnership turns into something late-night training sessions, accidental confessions, and one very public bake-off disaster. But Malik’s past is a fight he hasn’t finished, and Rowan’s afraid of losing every battle that feels too much like love.

Between cupcake blackmail, best friend intervention mayhem, and a “compliment fighting” rivalry that sounds suspiciously like flirting, these two opposites might just find that the only thing harder than throwing a punch… is letting someone in.

And maybe—if they can survive each other—a happily-ever-after worth every bruise. View Less