Grip It, Rip It, Kiss Me
Sapphic Sports Romance
by Aurora North
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Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Player/Caddie, Age Gap (17 years), Praise Kink, Forced Proximity, Ice Queen, Secret Relationship, Competence Kink, Control/Surrender, Golf Romance, Forbidden Romance
The softest word from the hardest woman. The steadiest hands on the most reckless player. The shot neither of them saw coming.
At twenty-seven, Tala Sarmiento has the talent to dominate professional golf and the temperament to destroy every opportunity she earns. She swings too hard. Takes impossible shots. Argues with officials. And has fired three caddies in eighteen months.
After Tala throws away a major tournament on national television, her sponsors give her one final condition: hire Nerys Quillan.
Nerys is forty-four, silver-streaked, infuriatingly calm, and one of the most brilliant course strategists alive. She is also a former champion who vanished from competitive golf after a public collapse no one has ever fully explained.
Nerys does not flatter Tala. She does not fear her. And she refuses to carry the bag of a woman who mistakes recklessness for courage.
Their first tournament together is a disaster. Their second nearly becomes a victory. By the third, Tala is addicted to the low voice that tells her when to attack, when to wait, and when she has finally done something well.
The attraction is mutual. Acting on it could destroy both their careers. But when accusations surface that Nerys is manipulating tournament strategy to rebuild her own reputation, Tala must choose between protecting her carefully repaired public image and publicly trusting the woman standing beside her.
On the course, every shot begins with alignment. Off it, Tala and Nerys are about to discover how difficult it is to aim at the same future.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Sapphic age-gap romance with a 17-year difference
✅ Professional golf setting with real strategic tension
✅ Player/caddie forbidden workplace romance
✅ Ice queen x wildfire — “Slow down. Trust the read. Good girl.”
✅ Praise kink so precise it qualifies as course management
✅ Competency porn meets actual porn (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ A former champion learning her hands aren’t broken
✅ A star athlete learning that discipline is the bravest shot
✅ HEA guaranteed — no cheating, no miscommunication that lasts
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, performance anxiety, public career collapse, media exploitation, professional scandal, altered private documents, and temporary romantic separation. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: Tala
The smart shot is a 7-iron to the center of the fairway.
I know this because three different caddies have told me the same thing over the past eighteen months, and I fired every one of them for reasons that made sense at the time and sound increasingly pathetic in retrospect.
I pull the 4-iron.
My temporary caddie — a quiet man named Greg who I hired six days ago and who has already developed the facial tic of someone regretting a career decision — shifts the bag on his shoulder.
“Tala, if we lay up—”
“I see the gap.”
“The gap is—”
“I see it, Greg.”
He stops talking. They always stop talking.
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The Nineteenth Hole — A scene TOO HOT for Amazon
Tala wins her first major. Nerys gives her a private celebration on the practice green after midnight. Hands on the putter. Hands on everything else. The praise comes in whispers and the finish line has nothing to do with golf.
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