The Roman Prince of Chaos: A Spicy Slow-Burn Italian Soccer Romance
He’s every woman’s dream. I’m just scared of what happens when I wake up.
Alessandro Moretti is the most dangerous striker in Italy, a Golden Ball winner, and the Sexiest Man Alive. Watching him on screen has been my guilty pleasure for more than ten years.
Then he became the face of my Baroque restoration campaign, said some stupid things about Baroque that I couldn’t let stand, and I corrected him.
In front of a hundred people.
It became a meme on Instagram.
Now he wants me to teach him history—officially, so he doesn’t make an idiot of himself again. But I know why he suddenly pretends to admire Roman architecture.
He wants me.
On the pitch, Alessandro is hungry, aggressive, and used to taking what he wants. Off it, he’s a master seducer who knows exactly how to make a woman feel like she’s the only person in the room.
But I mean to resist him, no matter how my pulse quickens when I feel his warmth. Because Alessandro Moretti loves the chase, and I refuse to become just another conquest.
Except he says this isn’t about conquering me.
He says he wants me. All of me. And he wants to make me happy.
How am I supposed to believe that a man who has had a roster of supermodels on his arm could truly want a curvy scholar with limited time in Rome? And even if he does, the whole world will be watching, ready to decide whether I’m worthy of him.
I’ve spent years building my professional reputation. I will not risk it for one charming, adorable footballer.
Even if the most wanted man in Italy seems determined to prove that, for once, he isn’t playing to win.
He’s playing for keeps.
The Roman Prince of Chaos is a slow-burn, spicy sports romance packed with hilarious banter, irresistible pursuit, and electric chemistry, all against the beauty and chaos of Rome.
Because Rome has been messing with young lovers since the beginning of time.
The Sicilian Trap: A Grumpy Coach World Cup Spicy Soccer Rom-Com
He demands absolute control to win the World Cup. She is the sunshine that refuses to bend.
Grumpy Meets Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Steamy Soccer Romance • Opposites Attract • Workplace Romance • Protective Hero • World Cup Stakes • Slow-burn With Sparkling Chemistry • Hilarious Banter • Found Family • Italian Vibes
Vincenzo Messina is a tactical genius who demands absolute control to win the World Cup, but his new PR director is a walking distraction. Armed with weaponized sunshine, Sofia Hofer threatens his sacred locker room, igniting a fiery clash of wills and sizzling chemistry they both refuse to acknowledge.
Arriving at the secluded Base Camp, Sofia's relentless optimism immediately collides with Vincenzo’s dictatorial temper. She treats football as a passionless branding puzzle to protect, while the volcanic coach fiercely shields his squad from the media. Bound by a lucrative Armani sponsorship, they are forced into thirty days of inescapable proximity within a secure compound and high emotion during the matches.
As the grueling tournament progresses, their battle lines blur. Sofia discovers the devout heart beneath his melodramatic touchline theatrics, while Vincenzo realizes her efficiency actually protects his players, shattering his defenses.
He engineered the perfect tactical trap on the pitch, but her weaponized sunshine cornered his heart. With the championship final looming, they must choose between maintaining their rigid professional boundaries or risking a catastrophic public scandal for a passion they cannot control.
The Sicilian Trap is a standalone, fast-paced, steamy soccer romantic comedy by Mara J. Ova featuring grumpy-meets-sunshine and forced proximity tropes. It is a perfect read during the US-hosted World Cup, and the Italian vibes make it an ideal summer escape.
Carve Me Golden: A Steamy Forced Proximity Romance Where She’s an Athlete Too (The Carve Series #01)
Trapped alone with your ultimate daydream crush while a storm rages around you… do you dare take the chance?
Forced proximity · She’s also an athlete · Celebrity athlete and his fan · European alpine settings · High‑stakes sport · Overcoming traumatic past · Exotic settings and fresh sports
After seven years with a toxic ex, Czech language teacher Zlata knows a new relationship is the last thing she needs. She’s finally thrown herself into ski racing, the real kind, with after-hours training and no rewards but the rush.
But a girl is allowed to dream… and sometimes, dreams come true.
A broken gondola. A violent storm. And Fabio Baier, her untouchable, world-famous ski racing crush, close enough to feel, to touch, to make her feel alive, if only for an hour.
This was never supposed to be real.
But when fantasy collides with reality, it doesn’t come softly. It burns.
Because Fabio isn’t just every woman’s dream. He has demons of his own to outrun. And until they both face their pasts, all they have is craving.
Carve Me Golden is a standalone in the Carve series, a high-heat sports romance filled with forced proximity, emotional scars, explosive chemistry, and a compelling couple who know that love must be earned.
If you crave intense attraction, high-stakes passion, and a fantasy that refuses to stay just a fantasy, this book is for you.
Carve My Heart: A Steamy Forbidden Olympic Sports Romance (The Carve Series #02)
The tension between them crackles and sizzles in every stolen moment. But they can’t. Both their careers depend on it.
Katharina Berger crashes into Austria’s golden boy, Thomas Kern, on a glacier half on purpose, just to feel his eyes on her: sharp, amused, and hungry. One reckless dinner turns into a night of desperate moans, whispered commands, and breathless surrender that leaves her aching for days.
Katharina is a PR manager who fought tooth and nail for her career and swore she’d never lose herself to an athlete, as her mother did. But one look at the way he moves, at the dangerous confidence in his voice, at the hunger in his eyes, and she’s never wanted to break her own rules so badly.
Austria’s ski champion, Thomas Kern, isn’t just good. He’s the best in the world, and he knows it. But Katharina isn’t just another distraction. Her sharp mind cuts straight through his defenses, and her body, the way she takes control, the way she comes apart for him, he’s obsessed.
When Katharina lands her dream job as the Austrian team’s new PR manager, they’re forced to work side by side. They know exactly how the other tastes. No one else on the team can ever know.
As Thomas struggles under Olympic pressure, Katharina is the only one who sees the man under the legend: the exhaustion under the arrogance, the flicker of fear behind his grin. And he can’t stop picturing the heat of her skin, the taste of her lips, the way her gaze cuts straight through every defense he’s built.
Getting too close could wreck her career. Staying away might shatter the last pieces of him that aren’t made of ice and pressure.
When the season turns brutal, and the stakes climb higher than any peak they’ve raced, Katharina has to decide: protect the life she’s fought for, or gamble it all on the man who would burn his golden-boy image to the ground rather than lose her.
Carve My Heart is a steamy Olympic sports romance packed with sparkling chemistry, forbidden workplace tension, and elite athletes pushed past their limits. It’s the kind of forbidden romance that makes you shiver, with tension hot enough to melt the ice.
If you crave powerful heroines, cocky but vulnerable athletes obsessed with the one woman they shouldn’t touch, and the rush of love that feels like flying down ice on the edge of control, this book is for you.
Carve Me Free: A Steamy Enemies‑to‑Lovers, Forbidden Ski Romance (The Carve Series #03)
She is ice and scandal. He is speed and sin. When they meet, they turn heat into a weapon they can’t stop using. But can that last?
Having spent her life as a decoration for her scandalously rich father, Élise Moreau finds her rebellion in a reckless downhill racer. Escaping an Olympic gala, she takes him up on his offer to be free and wild in his arms. One reckless Olympic night. No names. Just escape, freedom, and the kind of sex that brands itself into your bones.
Nico Reiner is the golden, reckless Super-G talent of Austria, hurling himself down the ice like he’s furious at the mountain and flirting his way through camera crews and fan girls. He’s used to casual hook-ups, easy worship, and being the wildest thing in any room—until one perfectly polished princess looks at him like he’s beneath her, then kisses him like she wants to burn her whole life down.
They were not supposed to meet again. But months later, Austria’s new speed hero locks eyes with his mystery girl at a World Cup sponsor party—and finds out the wild stranger from his bed is the Moreau heiress whose disgraced dynasty now quietly owns his skis.
What starts as a filthy, anonymous rebellion turns into a season-long obsession they can’t tame. As the stakes climb, they learn lust is easy; love is brutal. When crashes threaten careers, tabloids circle like vultures, and her father moves in for the kill, Nico and Élise have to face something far scarier than breaking rules: sacrifice, letting go of each other’s leash, and choosing a grown-up love they actually have to earn.
Carve Me Free is the second standalone book in the Carve series: a scorching World Cup sports romance for readers who crave enemies to lovers and a forbidden relationship that refuses to stay secret. Expect a golden boy with cracks, a black-cat heiress fighting out of her gilded cage, sharp class lines, and a season that forces them both to grow up if they want their love to survive.
Looking for something shorter?
Dive into the Carve Series with the prequel:
The Crash Course
THE PREQUEL TO THE CARVE SERIES
A Steamy Origin Story Prequel to Carve My Heart (A Short Olympic Sports Romance)
Katharina Berger has spent years fantasizing about Austria’s hottest ski champion from behind a screen. She never planned to crash into Thomas Kern on a glacier—let alone drag the Olympic god back to her hotel room and make every filthy daydream come true.
On the Hintertux glacier, one “accidental” collision turns into drinks, teasing, and a night where Thomas worships her body like it’s the only finish line that’s ever mattered. He’s used to fangirls and casual hookups. She’s used to keeping her distance from athletes who eat girls like her for breakfast.
But Katharina isn’t interested in being another anonymous conquest. She wants to own every hungry look, every groan, every wicked promise he makes against her skin—and walk away with her heart still intact.
Thomas tells himself she’s just another distraction before the season starts. So why can’t he stop replaying the way she tasted on her fingers, the way she dropped to her knees like she’d been imagining it for years, the way one night with her feels more dangerous than any race?
When dawn comes, and real life pulls them in opposite directions, neither of them knows they’re about to collide again—this time with careers, reputations, and Olympic dreams on the line.
This steamy prequel novella to Carve My Heart is a slow-burn-igniting, no-fade-to-black sports romance packed with filthy fantasies finally fulfilled, an alpha ski god brought to his knees, and the bold heroine who refuses to be just another notch on his race skis.
Welcome to the Slopes of the Carve Series
They race on ice, love on fire, and crash harder than they fall.
Gladiators don´t wear armor today.
Some wear race suits so tight you can see every line of muscle as they launch themselves down ice at 140 kilometers an hour.
Their thighs are steel, their swagger reckless, their bravado addictive. They carve lines on mountains where one mistake means the nets—and they grin as if the risk is half the fun.
You’ll see why people call them gods on skis. And if you find yourself squeezing your thighs together just reading about them… well, that’s exactly the point.
Welcome to the Carve series—a world of snow, sweat, and slow-burn heat, where every medal has a price and every touch can turn into an avalanche. If you get lost in the language of gates, splits, and seasons, don’t worry—there’s a glossary and calendar at the back to keep you on track while everything else tempts you to lose control.