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Short Side: A Spicy Forbidden College Lacrosse Romance
Cole Marchetti, captain of the Grafton men's lacrosse team, makes the paper look right by settling his players' trouble himself. He built the system, and the system worked.
Lucy Castillo, the resident assistant who wrote up Brady Walsh's midnight noise violation, keeps a file that has stayed clean for two years. A Yale summer fellowship and a recommendation letter depend on it. Cole offers her a trade. If a problem starts in her building she calls him first, and nothing goes on paper unless it needs to. She agrees on two a full report if he covers for the wrong person, and silence toward his team.
Over the school year Lucy chops onions at Cole's counter in the team house kitchen and sits beside him on the porch while he strings a stick, and after a March win over Collier she takes his hand in front of the whole team.
Meanwhile three October incidents have no matching documentation in Lucy's log. When her supervisor finds the gap, Cole spends a morning at the stove running plays to shield her and learns that none of it changes what happens to her file. Lucy has already chosen to tell the truth.
Paper has two sides, and Cole never counted hers.
A conference tournament and an NCAA run lie ahead.
Grafton After the Whistle, Book 1.
Lucy Castillo, the resident assistant who wrote up Brady Walsh's midnight noise violation, keeps a file that has stayed clean for two years. A Yale summer fellowship and a recommendation letter depend on it. Cole offers her a trade. If a problem starts in her building she calls him first, and nothing goes on paper unless it needs to. She agrees on two a full report if he covers for the wrong person, and silence toward his team.
Over the school year Lucy chops onions at Cole's counter in the team house kitchen and sits beside him on the porch while he strings a stick, and after a March win over Collier she takes his hand in front of the whole team.
Meanwhile three October incidents have no matching documentation in Lucy's log. When her supervisor finds the gap, Cole spends a morning at the stove running plays to shield her and learns that none of it changes what happens to her file. Lucy has already chosen to tell the truth.
Paper has two sides, and Cole never counted hers.
A conference tournament and an NCAA run lie ahead.
Grafton After the Whistle, Book 1.
354 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 6, 2026
About the author
Dana Velle
52 books2 followersDana Velle writes college sports romance and dark contemporary romance for readers who want their heat earned and their men unhinged.
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