Bruise Season

Ash was never supposed to see Jude clearly.

Jude Oban is St. Rowan's lead photographer for the Winter Athletics Campaign, by day.
By night, she fights underground to afford the cameras the university assumes talent should magically pay for.

Ash Brant is Number Ten-football star, campus golden boy, and trained to perform until no one notices the damage.

Everyone sees the athlete.
Jude sees what it costs him.

Their campaign should be simple: photographs, training schedules, professional distance.
Then stolen images surface. Old rivalries return. Someone inside the campaign starts controlling the frame.
Ash's restraint begins to crack. Jude's secrets stop staying buried.

Neither of them wants to be saved, owned or fixed.
They only want to be seen correctly.

Seen.

Mature content: underground fighting, violence, blood, injuries, public exposure, online leaks, strong language, sexual tension and explicit intimacy in later chapters. Additional warnings are included when needed.

All characters, institutions and events are fictional. Promotional visuals are aesthetic representations only.