Second-Chance Season (Under the Lights) by Brooke Sterling

He came home with a damaged shoulder, a damaged reputation, and one last chance to become the man he should have been all along. Easton Cross used to belong to Clearwater. Before the NFL contracts, the headlines, and the scandal that sent him back home, he was just the boy with a golden arm and a future everyone believed in. Now he’s injured, uncertain, and suddenly standing on the same football field where his life first began to change. June Parker has no interest in being part of Easton’s comeback story. She built a life in Clearwater after he left, one rooted in community work, hard-earned confidence, and the kind of stability he never gave her. She’s focused on saving the town’s struggling youth football program, not reopening old wounds with the man who broke her heart by fading out of her life one unanswered call at a time. But when Easton offers to coach the program, June agrees on one condition: she controls the public side of the project, and he proves he can show up before anyone believes in him again. Read more