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About the book

Kiera needs a personal best. Naomi needs to stay in control. Neither planned on falling.

At twenty-six, Kiera Voss should be entering the prime of her weightlifting career. Instead, a shoulder injury and a public meltdown have left her one failed comeback away from becoming the athlete everyone remembers for almost making it.

Her new coach, Naomi Serrat, is a forty-one-year-old former world champion whose reputation rests on medals, records, and an ability to keep every athlete at a distance. Kiera is everything she finds difficult: loud, stubborn, and inclined to hear criticism in every correction.

Training camp leaves little room to avoid each other. Dawn sessions, shared travel, and a demanding comeback plan force them to find a way to rebuild Kiera’s strength without sacrificing her confidence. Mutual frustration turns into respect—and then into an attraction neither woman’s ambitions have made room for.

When federation politics threaten Kiera’s place at Olympic trials and Naomi’s past becomes public, silence begins to look like the safest option. But Kiera is tired of lifting for everyone else’s approval, and Naomi is learning that control isn’t the same as protection. Their next choice could change far more than a competition result.

Book details

Author: Blair Lennox
Genre: Sapphic contemporary sports romance
Pairing: FF; protagonists aged 26 and 41
Sport: Weightlifting
Tropes: Athlete/coach, age gap, comeback story, plus-size heroine, rivals to lovers, bisexual awakening, forced proximity, slow burn, praise kink, body worship
Ending: Happily ever after

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Content notes

For readers 18+. Contains explicit sexual content, strong language, sports-related injury, body-image discussions, institutional misconduct, anxiety, and professional pressure.