About Extra Time: The league’s hottest rivalry isn’t the one you see on the pitch — Two stars, two clubs, one secret that could cost them everything
They're the two greatest talents in Europe. No one can know they're in love.
David Brandt is German football's golden boy — striker, headline, the face sponsors adore.
Kian Berger is his playmaker, his other half on the pitch — and the only person who looks past the image and sees him.
Out of the Münchner FC 1904 academy, two boys become the most electric duo on the continent. And in secret, away from the cameras, far more than that.
But the corporation that owns them deals in assets, not feelings. When David is sold to Paris overnight, two allies become the faces of the biggest rivalry in Europe — a derby manufactured for the cameras, fought out by two men who are supposed to despise each other and can't stop loving each other instead.
Eight years. Two clubs. One secret that, in this world, ends more than careers.
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Daniel A. Thorne writes about people chasing something bigger than themselves — a crown, a championship, or the courage to love out loud.
A lifelong football (soccer) obsessive, Thorne is the first to admit the beautiful game never quite loved him back: a touch too slow on the wing, a little too stubborn on the bench, and blessed with the kind of finishing that made teammates wince. So he did the next best thing to going pro — he started writing the players, the rivalries, and the locker-room electricity he could never quite pull off on the pitch.
That obsession fuels Offsiders, his contemporary romance series where the drama off the field hits every bit as hard as the football on it — slow burns, fierce loyalty, and two people who really should know better.
When he's not pacing the touchline, Thorne disappears somewhere far stranger: the worlds of Chronicles of the Crystal Realms, a sweeping epic fantasy saga of fractured kingdoms, old magic, and characters who'd burn it all down for the people they love.
Off the page, he's usually on a bike, experimenting in the kitchen, or loudly defending his football club to anyone who'll listen. He writes the stories he always wanted to read — and hopes you'll feel right at home in them.