Playing Hard to Hate

They were everything to each other—until life tore them apart.

Tatum Grace is the internet’s favorite fitness influencer, all strength and swagger on the outside. But off-camera, she’s still the girl whose dad walked out and whose mom never recovered. She doesn’t do love. Not anymore.

Griffin Silver was her best friend once—until high school popularity and a shot at the majors changed everything. Now he’s the Atlanta Braves’ newest rookie and the last person she expected to face across a jewelry campaign photoshoot.

It starts with a jewelry shoot. Then comes swimwear, a steamy photo leak, and a hotel mix-up that leaves them sharing one bed—and headlines they can’t deny..

But when Tate finds herself at gunpoint in a late-night grocery store, it’s Griffin who steps in.

Old feelings resurface. So do old wounds. And suddenly, pretending not to care is the hardest role they’ve ever played.

A steamy, emotional best-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance about second chances, survival, and the kind of love that never quits.