Playing for Keeps
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Lena Marlowe has always believed in control. Work hard, stay focused, don't let anything derail the life she's building at Belmont College.
It's a system that's never failed her... until Evan Rourke.
He's everything she doesn't have time for. Distracting. Unpredictable. Impossible to ignore. And somehow, despite every logical reason to keep her distance, he keeps finding his way into her orbit.
What starts as something light, something easy, quickly becomes anything but.
Because there are lines Lena can't afford to cross. Boundaries she didn't know existed until it was already too late. And the closer she gets to Evan, the more complicated everything becomes.
So they pull back. They set rules. They tell themselves they can keep things under control.
They're wrong.
Some connections refuse to stay simple.
Some choices come with consequences.
And sometimes, the hardest secret to keep... is the one you never saw coming.
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