Carina Rose

People rarely catch me off guard. I’m Collin St. James, after all: starting wide receiver for the Virginia Thunder. Playing football has kept me on my toes, but nothing could have prepared me to mentor our newest teammate, kicker Charlie Nicholson. I wasn’t caught off guard because I had to...

Things I hadn’t expected to happen on my birthday: 1. To go from brunette to orange when I was aiming for blonde. 2. To run into my ex and his new girlfriend, who happened to be sweeter than my favorite candy bar. 3. To literally collide with a wall of muscle belonging to Lucas Donovan, the...

Have you ever felt as though you were having an out-of-body experience? An ethereal feeling that you were floating in the atmosphere looking down on a situation? If not, let me tell you, it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Imagine you were at your best friend’s engagement party in Vegas...

Pro quarterbacks regularly face tough linemen determined to knock them down—but for one hotshot athlete, it was an infuriating blonde who stood the best chance of laying him on his back. I was one of the top quarterbacks in the league, riding high after scoring a lucrative deal with the DC...