Sage Fogerty has a complicated history with basketball. She hadn’t planned on addressing iteveruntil her graduate internship at Southeastern University fell through and she’s left with no choice but to be team manager for the men’s basketball team. Forced to confront the sport that used to be her entire world, Sage not only begins to mend her relationship with basketball, but also finds herself opening up to the overprotective head coach — a beautiful, bear of a man who she may or may not have almost hooked up with at the beginning of the year.

David Hughes is back at Southeastern...

Sage Fogerty has a complicated history with basketball. She hadn’t planned on addressing iteveruntil her graduate internship at Southeastern University fell through and she’s left with no choice but to be team manager for the men’s basketball team. Forced to confront the sport that used to be her entire world, Sage not only begins to mend her relationship with basketball, but also finds herself opening up to the overprotective head coach — a beautiful, bear of a man who she may or may not have almost hooked up with at the beginning of the year.

David Hughes is back at Southeastern with his dream job, Head Basketball Coach, and a chance to do things right. When the season gets off to a rocky start, David finds himself seeking out Sages company. There’s something about her — beyond her blue pantsuits and blonde ponytail — that keeps him showing up at her door with canned soup and take-out until he feels just as at home in her plant-filled apartment as he does his own.

But the attraction that drew them together that first night at the bar didn’t disappear just because their circumstances changed. And as accidental run-ins at the grocery store become shared meals, exchanging t-shirts, and slow dances, they find it increasingly difficult to remain professional in face of the chemistry between them.

Courtside is an almost hook up-to-coworkers-to-lovers romance filled with big men with tiny dogs, breakfast tacos, annoyingly perceptive friends, forgiveness, and, ultimately, two people who choose happiness together — on and off the court.