Hometown Legends

🏈 Hometown Legends

Home never felt so hot.

What happens when a national sports hero comes home to recover... and discovers the one person they never forgot? In Hometown Legends, your MC is a Major League athlete—injured, benched, or newly retired—who returns to their roots and falls for someone off-limits: their best friend’s sibling.

This shared world combines the athletic hometown hero trope with the emotional complexities of forbidden romance. With 8 sports to choose from and high-heat expectations, these stories deliver emotional depth, hometown charm, and raw passion.

✔ Submission Checklist:

• Trope: Athlete Hometown Hero (+ Brother’s Best Friend)

• Heat Level: 3.5 🌶 or higher

• Word Count: 30,000–50,000

• Ending: No cliffhangers; completed works only

• MC: Pro athlete (off-season, injured, or retired due to injury)

• Release Dates: Mar 2026 – Sep 2026

• Entry Fee: Non-refundable

• All stories: Professionally edited