Breakaway

First Love. Second Chances. A Choice.

Sloane Callahan was seventeen when she met Carter Beckett. One perfect summer of stolen kisses, midnight conversations, and promises that felt like forever. Then Ethan-her protective older brother-told Carter to stay away, and everything fell apart.

Eight years later, Sloane is back. A doctoral candidate in sports medicine, she lands an internship with the Toronto Raptors-the same team where Carter now plays as a professional center. Seeing him again ignites everything she thought she'd buried: the passion, the pain, the desperate desire to rewrite their ending.

But Carter isn't the only one who sees her anymore.

Ben Hartley is steady where Carter was chaotic. He's present where Carter was absent. And he loves her not as a perfect summer fantasy, but as a complicated, brilliant woman learning to stand alone.

As Sloane navigates the collision of her past and present, she discovers that real love isn't about being wanted-it's about being chosen. And that sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is choose yourself first.

A contemporary romance about first love, second chances, and the strength it takes to become whole.