Defending 14
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At Astoria Heights University-an elite academy where brilliance and privilege collide-sixteen-year-old Liliana Dylan Elara Rhodes has everything: popularity, beauty, brains, and undeniable talent on the soccer field. But behind her flawless image lies a name she can't escape and a boy who once owned her heart.
Theodore Hayes, only fourteen, is the prodigy everyone's talking about: freshman captain of the varsity soccer team, heir to a powerful family, and the kind of boy people admire from a distance but fear up close. Cold, untouchable, and impossibly gifted, Theo thrives under the pressure of perfection. To everyone else, he's a mystery. To Dylan, he's a memory she can't erase.
They were inseparable once-until their breakup left Dylan reeling and Theo hardened. Now, with soccer drawing them back into each other's orbit, old wounds reopen, and the line between rivalry and longing blurs.
As Dylan fights to prove herself on the girls' team and Theo shoulders the weight of leadership, their worlds collide in ways neither of them can control. But at Astoria Heights, where image is everything and secrets run deep, love can be as dangerous as it is undeniable.
Because no matter how hard Dylan tries to defend her heart, she can't seem to stop defending the boy who broke it.
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