Some secrets are written in ink.
Others are written in the dark.
Mayson Valentino has spent years burying who he really is.
Forced into his father's brutal soccer world, he hides behind cleats and forced masculinity by day. By night, in the quiet sanctuary of his late mother's art room, he becomes Miss Valentine - the sharp-tongued, wildly loved online romance writer who mends broken hearts with nothing but words.
Jamie Lee is everything Mayson isn't allowed to want.
The golden star goalie. The volunteer firefighter. The straight-A student with the perfect smile and the even more perfect life. Everyone wants him. Everyone envies him.
No one knows the truth that haunts him.
One desperate midnight letter changes everything.
When Jamie anonymously begs Miss Valentine for help winning the untouchable Rebecca Cedars - the girl who calls him too safe, too predictable - he has no idea he's pouring his deepest longings straight into the hands of the boy who's been quietly in love with him for years.
But Miss Valentine sees more than Jamie realizes.
She sees the hunger behind his perfect mask.
The way his gaze lingers too long in the locker room.
The storm he's trying so hard to keep buried.
As the anonymous letters grow hotter, more vulnerable, and dangerously intimate, the line between advice and obsession begins to blur. Mayson knows he should stop. He knows the truth could destroy them both - his father's rage, the team's cruelty, the secret identity he's built his entire fragile world around.
But some desires refuse to stay hidden.
And some letters... are impossible to unread.
A slow-burn, heart-wrenching "MM" romance about secrets, identity, first love, and the terrifying courage it takes to let someone see the real you - even when you're still learning who that is.
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