In the cage, Cade Mercer is a machine. Outside of it, his control is about to be shattered. Thirty-one-year-old MMA veteran Cade "Ghost" Mercer has built his entire life, and his nearly flawless fighting record, on absolute, punishing discipline. He doesn't do distractions. He doesn't do attachments. And he certainly doesn't do loud, arrogant, dangerously gorgeous rising stars who fight southpaw and take up entirely too much space. Nico Reyes is chaos in a pair of training shorts. He’s explosive, unfiltered, and determined to test himself against the best middleweight in the division. When the two are forced into an elite, eight-week remote training camp high in the mountains, the thin walls of their shared cabin become a battleground. What starts as brutal, full-contact sparring on the mats quickly bleeds into the dark hours of the night. Cade’s legendary control fractures under Nico’s relentless forward pressure, sparking a secret, scorching-hot physical arrangement that neither man knows how to stop. But with the biggest fights of their careers looming on the exact same card, their private submission might cost them everything they’ve bled for. They know exactly how to dismantle each other in the cage. Now, they have to figure out how to survive falling for each other outside of it. Straight in the Sheets is a high-heat, forced-proximity MM sports romance featuring a hyper-controlled veteran, an explosive rising star, and enough tension to snap a cage wall.
