Off Limits

One rule: Don't fall for your student.

One problem: Ashton Carter doesn't play by the rules.

Juliette Monroe didn't come to Texas for romance.
As a visiting professor from Germany, she expected heat, football, and the occasional cultural misunderstanding
- not the captain.

Star quarterback. Campus royalty.
And fifteen years younger.

He's arrogant, infuriatingly charming, and far too observant for her comfort.
She's off-limits. He knows that.
But between stolen glances, whispered classroom challenges, and late-night confessions...boundaries blur.

Their connection is undeniable.
But in a world where every move is under scrutiny, loving him might cost her everything.

She was supposed to teach him how to write.
Instead, he's rewriting everything she thought she knew about love.

Welcome to Copperhill University!
Where the sun is high, the stakes are higher, and every rule is meant to be tested.

In Off Limits, the first book of the Players of Copperhill series, we meet Juliette Moreau: a sharp, guarded visiting professor from Europe, ready to leave everything behind. She's sworn off emotional entanglements - especially with young, arrogant football stars who think the world bends for them.

Ashton Carter has never heard the word "no" - not from coaches, not from recruiters, and definitely not from women. As the star quarterback and team captain, his future is mapped out: NFL draft, success, and no distractions. But the second he walks into Juliette's classroom, that plan starts to unravel. She challenges him. She sees through him. And she just became the one thing he actually has to fight for.

They both know the rules: professor and student can't happen. Not here. Not now.
But rules are easy to write and harder to follow when the chemistry is real, the silence between them is louder than the crowd in the stadium, and walking away feels impossible.

Off Limits delivers a slow-burn, emotionally charged forbidden romance with wit, heat, and heart. Perfect for fans of southern men, age gap dynamics, hidden tension, powerful women who don't fall easily... and the men who fall hard anyway.

Tropes & Themes:

• Forbidden Romance

• Professor × Student

• Age Gap

• Slow Burn

• Football College Romance

• Southern Setting with European Twist
  

CW: Power imbalance (no grooming), emotional baggage, mention of past cheating and sexual abuse (not in this relationship)

Off Limits is book one of Players of Copperhill: series of interconnected standalones set in the world of Copperhill University, where every love story burns differently, but just as deep.