Quake

Lark Hughes runs a non-profit veterinary clinic outside Philadelphia and can't say yes when Divine Flyers soccer player Gianni Amato-De Laurentiis asks her out during a late-night visit with his rescue dog, Pickles — not with a "crappy boyfriend" already in the picture, and not with her own father owning the team. Gianni, thoughtful and quietly struggling with long-term depression, has his whole world upended when his best friend Alex dies in an accident, and meeting Lark becomes an unexpected turning point in how he starts to heal.

Giuliana Victoria continues the Philia Players series with a forced-proximity, neighbors-to-lovers sports romance addressing depression, anxiety, and diabetes with care.