PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2025 * * * * * With senior year well underway, Cali's plan to get into Fenton University's elusive Masters of Nursing program is set into motion. The competition is stiff, but she has a sure-fire way to get her where she wants to go. That is, until Cali's success lies in the prized member of the boxing team-Lincoln Pierce. Now tasked with tutoring the brooding fighter to secure a letter of reference from her professor, Cali launches herself at the opportunity. But she soon realizes that Lincoln is a hell of a lot more than she bargained for. Lincoln Pierce has no idea what he's doing or where he's going. One thing is for sure-he wants nothing to do with tutoring and even less to do with Cali, especially when her determination soon threatens to expose secrets he's purposefully left in the dark. But with his grades slipping, there's more than just Lincoln's full-ride scholarship on the line. Lincoln must accept Cali's help or lose everything he's fought for. And as it turns out, she may end up getting more than a little extra credit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Copyright of Luisa Dituri © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. ONLY AVAILABLE ON REAM!

[COMPLETE] Lydia and Dustin share the fact that they are boxers. However, the two lead very different lives. Lydia Dunst was raised in the life of boxing by retired boxing star Kirkland Dunst. She strives for greatness in the ring and tries to please the coach, her father. Dustin King leads a double life. At home he's neglected, but in the underground boxing ring he's a star with a big secret. When Kirkland takes an interest in Dustin and goes out of his way to coach him, he must keep it a secret from his daughter. Dustin will risk his security to box and Lydia will risk her father's trust to help Dustin. To become better boxers, Lydia and Dustin must fight it out in the ring while also fighting for their own hearts. One thing rings true, as they will soon discover: secrets can hurt more than hits. ╱╲╳╱╲ Co-written with @NayaRS Cover by @witchoria