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Playing With Fire
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Complete, First published Jul 28, 2025
She broke every rule to feel something real... even if it burns her whole world down.









Nika Mühl doesn't do drama. As a rising star with the Seattle Storm, she's worked too hard and sacrificed too much to let emotions get in the way. She plays smart, lives quiet, and follows one unspoken rule: don't get involved - not with teammates, not with staff, and definitely not with their families.

But when her teammate goes down with a season-ending injury, her younger sister Noa is called up on a hardship contract. Noa is everything Nika avoids: bold, reckless, and dangerously charming. Their chemistry ignites instantly, and before long, stolen glances turn into secret nights and blurred boundaries.

As the Storm fight for a playoff spot, Nika and Noa fight something even riskier - the temptation to fall. But if their relationship is discovered, Noa could lose her shot at the league forever... and Nika could lose the team that saved her.

In the game of secrets and desire, how far are they willing to go before they get burned?
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Full-Court Pressed

12 parts Ongoing Mature

Responsibilities-pressed together by someone always nearby, by constant nudges forward, by a camp that never really gives them space to be alone... or apart. For Nika, the pressure comes from everywhere: being watched, being responsible, and being stuck with Kate-the too-warm, too-likable, and relentlessly cheerful rival tied to years of college competition. Someone she's been trained to guard, to read, to shut down. Someone she knows how to keep in front of her. Until defense wasn't just strategy anymore-it was a shield she raised to keep her heart from getting too close. For Kate, it's quieter but heavier. Nika's presence lingers in the small moments: shared silence, deliberate closeness, late nights no camera ever catches. She's spent years learning how to break through defenses like Nika's-how to cut, how to draw fouls, how to force openings. What she wasn't prepared for was realizing she didn't have to drive past her anymore-for once, she could let the rivalry go, let herself stay. She didn't realize she was breaking through a different kind of defense now, one that wasn't drawn on a court, one Nika had built carefully around her heart, until it was already too late to pull back. Time slips by. Days blur. Feelings stack up. That's the full-court press. Not a game-but the constant closeness, the lack of escape, the emotional pressure of being pushed toward someone you're meant to compete against, not fall for. Full-Court Pressed is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers summer romance about what happens when college rivalry doesn't end at the buzzer-when you're pressed from all sides by proximity, history, scheming teammates, and unstoppable little ones, on camera, off camera, and in the quiet spaces where feelings grow whether you're ready for them or not.