Soreyamay12
"I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive"❤︎
Elizaveta Moldava has spent her entire career perfecting the art of appearing untouched.
Whether she wins, falls, or makes history as the first woman to land a quintuple jump in competition, Liza wears the same unreadable expression. To the public, she is arrogant, reckless and impossible to control. To those who know her, she is a girl who learned long ago that pain becomes powerless when no one can see it.
For almost nine years, Plushenko understood her-or at least understood when to let her run.
Then one impossible jump changes everything.
Taken from the only coach she has ever trusted and transferred to Sambo-70, Liza finds herself under the unforgiving eye of Eteri Tutberidze, a woman famous for creating champions and breaking anything in them that refuses to bend. Eteri calls Liza difficult. Liza calls Eteri unbearable. Neither is prepared for how quickly their battles become personal.
Because beneath every punishment, argument and act of defiance lies something far more dangerous than hatred: the desperate need to be understood by the one person determined to see through her.
In a world where affection is conditional, pain is praised as discipline, and one mistake can end a career, Liza must decide how much of herself she is willing to destroy for greatness-and what happens when being chosen begins to feel more frightening than being alone.