
A Second Chance Football Romance
by Vera Ashcroft
Eight years ago, Callum Hayes chose football over the woman he loved. Now an ACL injury has sent him back to the one place—and the one person—he never quite left behind.
Mia Bennett has built a life that belongs entirely to her. Her restoration studio is thriving, her future is finally taking shape, and restoring Greyhaven House should be just another career-defining project. Until Callum returns home to continue his rehabilitation in the very house she’s rebuilding.
Working in the same house makes distance impossible. Old hurt gives way to honest conversations, familiar attraction becomes something neither of them can dismiss, and the love they once got wrong begins to feel dangerously possible again.
But Callum’s career is far from over, and Mia refuses to make herself smaller to fit inside someone else’s future. When football offers him another chance away from England, they have to answer the question they failed to ask eight years ago:
Can they build a life together without either of them giving up the life they fought to build apart?
The Weight of Home is a steamy, emotional second-chance football romance featuring first love, forced proximity, an injured footballer fighting his way back, an ambitious heroine with a career of her own, and a hard-earned happily-ever-after.