Between Pogues and Kings

Between Pogues and Kings

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Born into money, Avery Dalton has always been expected to play the part of a perfect Kook. Perfect clothes. Perfect friends. Perfect boyfriend. And for a while, she does. Dating Rafe Cameron makes sense. Their families approve, they rule every party, and on the outside they look untouchable. But Rafe's temper is getting worse. His grip on her life is getting tighter. And the more time Avery spends pretending everything is fine, the more she feels like she's drowning. Then she meets JJ Maybank. JJ is everything she's been taught to stay away from-reckless, loud, and a Pogue through and through. At first, they can barely stand each other. But JJ is also the first person who notices the things Avery tries to hide. The bruised wrist she covers with bracelets. The way she flinches when Rafe raises his voice. The way she looks at the ocean like she wants to disappear into it. And once JJ starts paying attention, he can't stop. Caught between the world she was born into and the one that finally feels real, Avery Dalton finds herself standing on the line between Pogues and Kings-and realizing that crossing it might cost her everything.
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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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