Two rival head coaches. One explosive secret. A championship on the line.
Ethan Cole is the Ice King of college football. Methodical, controlled, and defensive, he runs his Harlan State program with absolute precision and zero room for error.
Marco Reyes is the Wildcard. Loud, chaotic, and brilliant, he built Coastal Verde into a powerhouse using pure gamble and instinct.
To the media and twelve million fans, they are the most bitter, highly publicized rivals in the sport. But what the cameras don't capture is the explosive heat beneath the hatred. Hidden away in beige hotel rooms and coordinated via midnight burner phones, Ethan and Marco have been fighting a completely different war behind closed doors-a secret, bruising, obsessive arrangement that defies every rule they've ever built.
As Hate Week descends and their epic conference championship collision looms, the stakes have never been higher. With a hungry reporter circling their trail, the risk of exposure threatens to destroy both their careers.
Ethan built his life to avoid being blindsided. Marco built his to outrun the silence. But as the clock winds down to kickoff, both men will have to decide if standing still is finally going to cost them the only thing that matters.
Hate Week is a high-stakes, steamy MM sports romance featuring intense rivals-to-lovers heat, opposite personalities, secret hotel hookups, and two men realizing the only thing scarier than losing a championship is losing each other.