Safe at Home - Marz

Safe at Home - Marz

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In the cutthroat world of elite college showcase softball, winning is everything-and for Manon Bannerman, it's her only way out. A nationally ranked shortstop with college scouts watching her every move, Manon has spent years chasing the one thing that could finally free her: a Division I scholarship. But behind her polished image and perfect stats is a life controlled by fear, pressure, and bruises she's learned to hide too well. One scholarship could mean freedom, and she refuses to let anyone take that from her. Especially Lara Raj. The star pitcher from their biggest rival team is everything Manon hates-intense, infuriating, and impossible to beat. Lara plays with the kinds of hunger that make people nervous, like losing simply isn't allowed. Unlike the girls surrounded by private coaches and expensive travel teams, Lara has fought for every inning she's ever played. She's worked 2 jobs to afford lessons, used severely worn-out equipment, and clawed her way onto elite teams her family could never pay for. To her, softball isn't just a passion-it's the only shot she has at escaping poverty and building a future beyond survival. When tournament season throws them into each other's orbit over and over again, rivalry quickly turns personal. Between brutal matchups, college scouts, mounting pressure, and lives unraveling behind both sides, the girls begin to see the parts of each other nobody else does. Manon sees the exhaustion Lara hides beneath her confidence. Lara sees the fear behind Manon's perfection. And somewhere between competition and resentment, they become the one thing the other can't afford: a distraction. But what happens when the one girl determined to beat you becomes the one person you need most?
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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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