Playing Dirty by Evie Brod

He’s Blackthorne University’s golden boy.
She’s the journalist who can’t stand him.

Rowan Hayes has no interest in campus parties, basketball stars, or arrogant men with perfect smiles and worse attitudes. She’s focused on one thing only: surviving college and building a career strong enough to escape the life waiting for her back home.
Then she gets assigned the biggest story of the year.
Mason Reed — Blackthorne’s star player, future NBA draft pick, and the guy everyone worships.
He’s reckless, infuriating, impossible to ignore… and hiding more behind that cocky grin than Rowan expected.
What starts as a disaster of forced interviews and constant arguments quickly turns into late nights, dangerous chemistry, and a connection neither of them can control.
But secrets don’t stay buried forever.
And when the truth finally comes out, Rowan has to decide if loving Mason is worth risking everything she’s worked for.

Playing Dirty is a college sports romance filled with tension, banter, emotional damage, found family, messy characters, and a love story that hurts before it heals.