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The Advantage #7
Against The Line
Not yet published
Expected 13 Jun 26Rafael 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.
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.
396 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication June 13, 2026
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Review of advance copy received from Author
I absolutely loved it. It hit me in a place very that I didn't know it would and it was an emotional ride.. I mean waterworks galore and ugly crying but cleansing at the same time. My favorite chapter was MARISCOS... i have lived in Los Angeles my whole life in the heart of Korean town
And this chapter captured the essence of what it is to be part of los angeles and the smells and the feeling and the heart it was beautiful and I greatly appreciate the Author because I know in my heart he put all the feels into this chapter so I the reader could experience it in my soul. 🥰🥰
And this chapter captured the essence of what it is to be part of los angeles and the smells and the feeling and the heart it was beautiful and I greatly appreciate the Author because I know in my heart he put all the feels into this chapter so I the reader could experience it in my soul. 🥰🥰
Review of advance copy received from Author
So you get an opportunity to read a fun ARC romcom, what you didn’t plan was to feel like an emotional wreck less than 24 hours later. Effective use of chosen family/friends and an honest look at the contemporary political climate blend to create an immersive understanding of love under fire combined seamlessly. “Tokens always get spent” may be my favorite line from any book in years.
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