Knox Maddox left Chicago ten years ago and never looked back.Tessa Stone noticed.She had loved him since they were sixteen, grew up beside him inside the same boxing gym and watched him leave after his father's death without giving either of them the chance to discover what they might have become.Now Knox is back.Older. Harder. One fight away from the title path he has spent eleven years chasing.And Tessa is still standing in the corner he left behind.She is no longer the girl waiting for him to notice her. She is an experienced cutwoman with a career, a life and no intention of letting the man who disappeared once become the reason she loses herself again.But the chemistry between them survived every mile and every silent year.This time, Knox has no intention of running.As their friendship finally becomes the relationship they should have fought for years ago, Knox's comeback begins gathering momentum. A major eliminator could put him within reach of a championship, until an MRI reveals that the shoulder he has been ignoring may have far less time left than he thought.He can keep fighting.He can keep chasing the belt.But another brutal night in the ring could cost him more than a title ever gave him.For the first time in his career, Knox has something outside boxing he is terrified to lose.Tessa.The gym that still feels like home.And the future he has finally allowed himself to want.When ambition, injury and love collide, Knox must decide whether courage means refusing to quit or knowing when the fight in front of him is no longer the one that matters most.Because Tessa can tape his hands.She can close his cuts.She can stand in his corner when the whole arena is watching.But she cannot make the biggest decision of his career for him.Round One is Book One of Fight Night, an emotional contemporary boxing romance featuring childhood friends to lovers, second chance romance, a professional fighter and his cutwoman, ten years of unresolved longing, sports injury and recovery, forced proximity, public romance, marriage, found family, high emotional stakes, on-page heat and a hard-won HEA that proves sometimes the greatest victory begins after you stop fighting alone.
