Against The Line (The Advantage #7)

Rafael May Cetzal just wanted to play rugby.

Instead, he becomes a headline.

After a viral confrontation puts a target on his back, Rafa’s life collapses into protocols, security checkpoints, and rooms he doesn’t choose. The club calls it protection. Rafa knows better. He’s undocumented, hyper-visible, and suddenly every movement is being watched.

Enter Jonah Kincaid.

Jonah is the team’s attorney—precise, controlled, and devastatingly composed. His job is to manage risk. His assignment is Rafael. Temporary relocation. Restricted movement. Guarded hallways. Every safeguard comes with a cost, and Rafa feels each one tighten around him like a cage.

But Jonah isn’t just enforcing policy.

He’s driving Rafa everywhere. Holding his documents. Standing between him and the state. Making impossible promises in quiet voices. And somewhere between late-night hotel corridors and consent-based protection plans, Rafa finds himself wanting the man tasked with keeping him alive—the one person whose presence he can’t escape.

As pressure mounts—from immigration enforcement, from the club, from people who profit off silence—Rafa must decide how much control he’s willing to surrender to survive, and Jonah must confront the line between professional duty and personal loyalty.

Because in a system designed to erase people like Rafa, love itself becomes an act of resistance.

Against the Line is a high-stakes queer romance about power, protection, and what it means to choose each other when the world is watching.