He’s a ticking time bomb on the court. I’m the cold, analytical billionaire who bought his contract. I thought he was just a high-variance asset to be optimized. I didn't realize he was going to destroy every system I ever built. Jaylen Cruz is the most electric talent in professional basketball—and its biggest liability. Haunted by abandonment and burning with an ungovernable fury, his explosive on-court ejections have made him a pariah. Traded for scraps to the New York Titans, he expects to be discarded all over again. He doesn't expect the hyper-controlled, devastatingly handsome team owner to step in and demand total compliance. Gabriel "The Surgeon" Russo rules his billion-dollar sports empire by numbers, algorithms, and ice-cold distance. Burned by a catastrophic past betrayal, Gabriel has spent five years building unbreakable walls to ensure no one ever gets inside his life again. But when a 2 AM midnight confrontation on an empty practice court shatters their professional boundaries, their carefully engineered roles collapse into pure, unadulterated heat. From intense, locked-office film sessions to hidden hotel rooms on the road, an addictive game of control and submission ignites between them. But as corporate enemies circle the franchise and the public eye closes in, the line between protecting an investment and protecting a heart blurs entirely. When the system crashes and the media storm hits, can a man who has always run find a reason to stay—and can the surgeon who cuts without sentiment learn to build a home? Overtime in the Owner's Box is a scorching hot, high-stakes M/M sports romance featuring an age-gap relationship, hurt/comfort emotional healing, heavy forbidden workplace tension, and an eventual hard-earned HEA. It is Book 1 in the Titans of the Court series but can be read as a standalone.
