
Rival Rackets
Sapphic Sports Romance
by Aurora North
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Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Praise Kink, Competition Kink, Secret Relationship, Slow Burn
Two women fighting for the same sponsorship deal. Their public smiles are fake. Their private chemistry is so volatile it starts changing the outcome of their matches.
Vivienne Cross is the Ice Queen of women’s tennis — a two-time Grand Slam champion whose composure is legendary and whose personal life is a fortress. She doesn’t smile for cameras. She doesn’t let anyone close. And she absolutely does not think about Talia Reyes’s forehand at two in the morning.
Talia Reyes is the rising challenger — explosive, magnetic, and the only player on tour who makes Vivienne nervous. She plays to the crowd, smiles for the sponsors, and performs confidence like a second language. Underneath the bravado, she’s never had someone want her for anything other than what she produces.
When luxury sportswear brand Elara signs them both for a six-week “Rivals” campaign — joint photoshoots, joint press, joint everything — they’re forced into each other’s space across three tournament stops. One kiss after a late-night argument becomes two. Two becomes a hotel room door opening at midnight. The sex is competitive, addictive, and absolutely against the rules.
The problem isn’t that they can’t stop. The problem is that winning against each other starts feeling worse than losing.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Rivals-to-lovers sapphic sports romance
✅ Forced proximity via a sponsorship campaign
✅ Competition as foreplay (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ Praise kink that shatters composure
✅ “I know your game / I know your body” energy
✅ Secret relationship under media scrutiny
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, depictions of anxiety, media pressure, and emotional manipulation by a family member. Intended for readers 18+.
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Rematch — Rome — A scene TOO HOT for Amazon
Vivienne and Talia share a hotel room at a tournament in Rome. The night before their semifinal rematch, competitive tension becomes something far more explosive. Praise kink at full intensity, competitive banter turned foreplay, and the kind of athletic, joyful, uninhibited sex that only happens between two women who’ve earned each other.
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