Edge of the Rule
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Masen Gray is twenty-two, brilliant, and wildly out of place.
After finishing her doctorate in psychology at record speed, she expects a future built on research, prestige, and control. Instead, a favor from her well-connected father lands her in the last place she belongs, working as the newest publicist and media specialist for the International Skating Union.
Masen knows human behavior.
She knows pressure, image management, ambition, and ego.
She knows nothing about skating.
She can't tell a lutz from a loop, refuses to step on the ice after a childhood fall, and enters the elite figure skating world armed with sharp wit, sharper instincts, and a South African accent no one ever places correctly.
Then she meets Ilia Malinin.
Olympian. Three-time world champion. Global sensation.
On the ice, Ilia is fearless, commanding, and untouchable. Off the ice, he is shy, reserved, unexpectedly soft, and far more playful than the world sees. As Masen manages interviews, scandals, travel, and the constant circus surrounding elite competition, she finds herself drawn to the one person she absolutely cannot want.
Because ISU personnel are forbidden from dating skaters.
What begins as teasing glances and accidental tension grows into a dangerous secret neither of them knows how to stop. Across packed arenas, late-night flights, world championships, Olympic pressure, and the relentless spotlight of international sport, Masen and Ilia must choose between the rules that protect their careers and the feelings threatening to destroy their restraint.
She was hired to protect the image.
She never expected to risk her own heart.
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