Eighteen year old Elena has spent her entire life chasing perfection on the ice. A figure skater from Europe, she has always believed that talent could take her anywhere until her life is uprooted and she is sent to train in Russia, where everything is faster, colder, and far more unforgiving than she expected. At one of the most elite training environments in the world, she finds herself under the watchful eye of one of the most feared and respected coaches in figure skating: Eteri Tutberidze. Eteri is distant. Strict. Impossible to read. And yet, she sees something in Elena that no one else does. As pressure builds on and off the ice, Elena is pushed further than she has ever been before physically, mentally, and emotionally. What begins as admiration slowly turns into something far more dangerous, something neither of them is allowed to name. In a world where every mistake is punished and every feeling must be hidden, Elena is forced to choose between the sport she loves... and the woman she was never supposed to want.

Mel is an Olympic skater,she lived in London with her rich parents.They treat her like a spoiled daughter, giving her everything, until they gave her ice skates at the age of ten. At the age of nineteen, Mel and her group had to go to a camp, not knowing that it was run by Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze.Mel's whole life turns into something else.

Yelizaveta Irina Sofiya Volkovitch, better known as Yana, is the granddaughter of the infamous Russian figure skating coach and choreographer Maria Tatjana Volkovitch. Yana has basically been raised on the ice and knew from a young age that she wanted to win Olympic Gold for Russia. Her grandmother dominated the national and international competition podiums with her skaters between 1970 and 2005. Among those skaters was also Eteri Tutberidze, who later became a very famous skating coach at the elite Russia state funded sports school Sambo-70 in Moscow. ~please keep in mind that a lot of this will be made up by me but it will hold a touch of reality~

In the relentless world of elite figure skating, Faith fights for perfection on the ice while battling insecurities. Under the sharp eye of Eteri Tutberidze , tension simmers between discipline and desire, ambition and emotion. As pressure mounts, Faith must decide what kind of strength she wants to embody - and what she's willing to sacrifice to rise. And she must face her unwanted feelings towards the one person she should never love. Eteri. Trigger Warnings (TW) • Minor Bullying (verbal harassment, body shaming) • minor mention Body image issues • Death of a parent

This is fem reader x eteri, slow burning romance, between a skater and her coach.