No Appeal

Curtis Dacre has five weeks to prove Warren Telfer destroyed his career. Warren owns every court Curtis needs to do it.

Curtis accepts a visiting-coach residency at an elite racquets club in McLean, Virginia, with one purpose: rebuild the reputation Warren’s lie took from him. Five weeks of influential clients and public results could return Curtis to the level of the sport where he belongs.

Then he learns the invitation came from the man who ruined him.

Warren Telfer doesn’t regret what he did. He regrets that Curtis escaped afterward.

Years ago, Warren turned rivalry into sabotage and desire into another contest he intended to win. Now he controls the club, the schedule, the clients, and the professional opportunity Curtis cannot afford to abandon.

There is just one complication.

Curtis is no longer willing to lose quietly—and he never stopped wanting the man he should hate.

Curtis plans to expose Warren’s lie, take back his authority, and leave with his career restored. Warren plans to convert every victory into access, every mistake into punishment, and every sign of desire into proof that Curtis still belongs under his control.

As the spring invitational approaches, their fight moves beyond the court. Careers become leverage, bodies become territory, and the line between defeating Warren and accepting him begins to collapse.

Except Curtis has learned how Warren plays.

And this time, he has conditions of his own.

Five weeks. One public reckoning. No appeal from the terms they finally accept.

By the last match, Curtis will have his name back. Warren intends to claim everything the victory does not protect.

Neither man will mistake the result for forgiveness.

No Appeal is Book 1 in the Marden House series by Soren Blake. This pitch-black MM dark romance features former rivals, a hostile reunion, an obsessive club owner, sports-world sabotage, coercive control, surveillance, public humiliation, explicit intimacy, dubious consent, and on-page non-consensual sexual content.

This is not a redemption story. Curtis reaches a complete, deliberately unequal arrangement by the end, but do not expect apologies, a softened villain, or a traditional happily-ever-after.