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Playing Poole
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Ongoing, First published May 23, 2025
Mature
Sports journalist Emerson Gregory has worked her entire career to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of professional basketball. The last thing she needs is to complicate her hard-earned position by getting involved with a player-especially Jordan Poole, the Washington Wizards' star who's been her teenage crush since she was fifteen.

But when a career-defining opportunity forces them into close proximity, the attraction she's spent years suppressing becomes impossible to ignore. Jordan seems just as drawn to her, but with his complicated dating history and her precarious position as one of the few Black women in sports media, Emerson knows better than to believe in fairy tales.

When a vindictive colleague threatens to destroy everything she's built, Emerson discovers that some people will do anything to keep her from getting what she wants. Now she must decide: is Jordan worth risking everything she's worked for, or should she protect her career from a love that might never be real?
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