«Dulce Bellum Inexpertis»

«Dulce Bellum Inexpertis»

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Dulce Bellum Inexpertis | Latin | Translation: War is sweet to those who have never experienced it __________________________________ Eleanor Pierce had never thought of herself as a hero. She was bold, hot headed, and different. She never thought of herself as a hero, because she thought heroes were fearless and she was anything but that. She was scared when her brother was drafted as a soldier. She was scared when she took his conscription papers and tore them up, deciding to go in his place. She was scared when she left her home for the first time in her entire life and traveled with a boat of strangers to a new country. She was scared when the lives of men were thrusted into her hands. She was completely terrified as she lived a six year long nightmare. Or as history books call it, World War 2. __________________________________ 'Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.' -Marl Mausou [Band of Brothers] [The Pacific]
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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