The Point Guard

The Starting Five Series, Book 1

By Maeve Sullivan

She controls every play on the court—until one woman makes her question the game she thought she had mastered.

She controls the game. She was not prepared for her.

Veteran point guard Megan Walsh has built her career on control. She sees the pass before it opens, the mistake before it happens, and the story before someone else tries to tell it for her. After a bitter trade sends her to the Nashville Reverb, an ambitious women’s professional basketball expansion team, Megan wants one quiet season to prove she is still elite.

Jules Baptiste is the Reverb’s rookie shooting guard: brilliant, openly queer, wildly marketable, and exhausted from being watched. Fans adore her. Sponsors want her. The league loves her smile. What Jules wants is to be respected for the game she actually plays.

Megan thinks Jules is reckless.
Jules thinks Megan is impossible.

Unfortunately, the team only starts winning when they learn to trust each other.

On court, their chemistry becomes impossible to defend. Off court, every glance, touch, and postgame moment turns into content before either woman has decided what it means. As the Reverb fight for a playoff spot, Megan and Jules must decide whether privacy can protect something real—or whether fear is just another way of letting other people own the story.

The Point Guard is a slow-burn sapphic sports romance about women athletes, public pressure, private longing, and the frightening relief of being seen accurately.