There's only one spot at 157. There's only one person he can't stop thinking about.

Ben Callahan has held his weight class since freshman year. Wrestling is the one place his mind goes quiet — just pressure, breath, and the single problem of another body. He doesn't need complications. Then Kaden Ryker transfers in, and the mat stops being simple.

Kaden is compact, fast, and wrestles like every move was already finished before he started it. Tierney gives them five weeks to settle the spot in a wrestle-off, and suddenly Ben is spending every practice pinned against a body he can't stop cataloguing — the calluses on his palms, the scar through his eyebrow, the sharp metallic scent of his skin.

Told in alternating voices, The Wrestler follows two athletes locked in a rivalry that becomes something far more dangerous than competition. What happens on the mat — the scrambles, the pins, the intimate proximity of two bodies fighting for control — starts to bleed into everything else. And when the wrestle-off arrives, what's at stake has nothing to do with the score.

The Wrestler is an explicit, dual-POV MM romance about rivalry, forbidden attraction, and two men discovering that the most honest version of themselves exists somewhere between combat and surrender.

This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for adult listeners only (18+). All characters are fictional adults.

Perfect for fans of:

• Straight to gay first time MM romance
• Rivals to lovers and sports romance
• MM erotica with intense physical tension
• Dual POV gay romance novels
• College wrestling and athlete romance
• Bisexual awakening and gay first time stories
• Explicit MM romance for adults

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