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Open Goal #2
Extra Time
Owen Murphy’s knee wakes up before he does.
Every morning at 5:14 AM, the Irish goalkeeper wraps his failing joint into submission, makes toast for his four-year-old daughter, and drives to the pitch where he stands inside a six-yard box and pretends the future isn’t ending. Inside the crease, Owen knows exactly who he is. Outside the crease, he’s a thirty-year-old single father with a career counting down and a refusal to feel anything about it.
Diego Alvarez doesn’t believe in creases.
The Mexican-American forward from El Paso is sunshine and chaos and the specific, relentless warmth of a man who has never met a boundary he didn’t want to cross. He delivers Rosa’s pupusas, scores goals, and has decided—with zero subtlety and maximum enthusiasm—that the grumpy Irish goalkeeper who told the coach to fuck off on Day 1 is the most interesting person on the roster. Owen doesn’t want Diego’s warmth. Owen doesn’t want Diego’s relentless optimism or his terrible jokes or the way he shows up at Owen’s apartment with takeout and somehow ends up on the floor playing dinosaurs with Aoife. Owen doesn’t want any of it.
Owen’s knee disagrees. Owen’s daughter disagrees. Owen’s entire body disagrees.
The knee is failing. The career is ending. And the man who keeps showing up with pupusas and patience might be the only person who can show Owen that the extra time—the time after the game should have ended—is the time that matters most.
Extra Time is a full-length MM sports romance featuring a grumpy Irish goalkeeper, a sunshine Mexican-American forward, a four-year-old who negotiates like an attorney, and a groundskeeper who has seen it all. This is Book 2 in the Open Goal series. Each book follows a different couple on the same team. Can be read as a standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
Every morning at 5:14 AM, the Irish goalkeeper wraps his failing joint into submission, makes toast for his four-year-old daughter, and drives to the pitch where he stands inside a six-yard box and pretends the future isn’t ending. Inside the crease, Owen knows exactly who he is. Outside the crease, he’s a thirty-year-old single father with a career counting down and a refusal to feel anything about it.
Diego Alvarez doesn’t believe in creases.
The Mexican-American forward from El Paso is sunshine and chaos and the specific, relentless warmth of a man who has never met a boundary he didn’t want to cross. He delivers Rosa’s pupusas, scores goals, and has decided—with zero subtlety and maximum enthusiasm—that the grumpy Irish goalkeeper who told the coach to fuck off on Day 1 is the most interesting person on the roster. Owen doesn’t want Diego’s warmth. Owen doesn’t want Diego’s relentless optimism or his terrible jokes or the way he shows up at Owen’s apartment with takeout and somehow ends up on the floor playing dinosaurs with Aoife. Owen doesn’t want any of it.
Owen’s knee disagrees. Owen’s daughter disagrees. Owen’s entire body disagrees.
The knee is failing. The career is ending. And the man who keeps showing up with pupusas and patience might be the only person who can show Owen that the extra time—the time after the game should have ended—is the time that matters most.
Extra Time is a full-length MM sports romance featuring a grumpy Irish goalkeeper, a sunshine Mexican-American forward, a four-year-old who negotiates like an attorney, and a groundskeeper who has seen it all. This is Book 2 in the Open Goal series. Each book follows a different couple on the same team. Can be read as a standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 5, 2026
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June 24, 2026
¡Open only from the inside!
An emotionally gripping journe.y of love between two men. The growth, tangents, stalls, transitions, and final result admit and include the sexual attraction without all the lurid details but with no less intense moments.
An emotionally gripping journe.y of love between two men. The growth, tangents, stalls, transitions, and final result admit and include the sexual attraction without all the lurid details but with no less intense moments.
July 17, 2026
another good one
I’ve been gobbling up Chris Savages books for the last 10 days or so, and I am really enjoying them. Well worth the read.
I’ve been gobbling up Chris Savages books for the last 10 days or so, and I am really enjoying them. Well worth the read.
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