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She Drives Me Crazy

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She Drives Me Crazy
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Basketball player Scottie and cheer captain Irene strike a fake-dating deal after a car accident forces them to spend time together. Start here for the slow turn from sharp banter to trust, and a court where Scottie's ex is a real opponent.
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Finding Her Edge

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Finding Her Edge
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Ice dancer Adriana and new partner Brayden play up their connection in public while she still has feelings for former partner Freddie. Choose it if you want ice-dance practice, a partnership under pressure, and the question of whether chemistry on the ice needs to carry into a skater's private life.
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The Passing Playbook

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The Passing Playbook
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Spencer makes the soccer team after transferring schools and starts to fall for teammate Justice. A rule threatens his eligibility as a trans athlete, so deciding whether to stay in the lineup has consequences he never meant to share with the entire team.
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You Don't Have a Shot

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You Don't Have a Shot
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Valentina and Leticia have a history as soccer rivals before a summer league makes them co-captains. Pick it if you want the route from rivalry to attraction to run through an actual team problem. They have to agree on how to lead even when they disagree on nearly everything else.
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Home Field Advantage

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Home Field Advantage
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Amber wants to be cheer captain and Jack wants to quarterback a team that treats her as a teammate. Their romance costs them different things in the same school. Read it for two leads whose ambitions make how they act in front of the stands matter.
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Playing for Keeps

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Playing for Keeps
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June wants to keep pitching in a baseball program that is already scrutinizing her. Getting close to young umpire Ivy means dealing with a conflict of interest on the field. Pick it when you want sports rules to put pressure on the relationship as directly as the competition does.
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Icebreaker

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Icebreaker
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Mickey and Jaysen are teammates and rivals for the top NHL draft spot. Mickey is trying to make a place for himself apart from his hockey family while managing his mental health. Choose this if the potential relationship has to change how the guys compete, even when neither wants to back down.
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Throw Like a Girl

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Throw Like a Girl
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After losing a spot at her old school, Liv needs a way to show her new softball coach she can be a teammate. Injured quarterback Grey recruits her for football. Try it if you like an athlete translating a skill into a new sport and then having to decide what she owes the person who helped her in.
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Fake Skating

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Fake Skating
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Dani reconnects with childhood friend Alec after he has become a local hockey star. Their fake relationship gives them each a reason to be seen together. Pick it when you want a funny fake-dating setup in a town where his roster status makes keeping anything private feel improbable.
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Furia

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Furia
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Camila plays soccer in Rosario while hiding how far she wants to go, and longtime friend Diego has already made it to professional soccer abroad. Try it for a romantic thread that makes Camila's ambitions sharper as she tries to claim her own route out.
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Running with Lions

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Running with Lions
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Goalie Sebastian is looking forward to another stretch of soccer camp when former friend Emir joins the team. Try it for a summer training story in which knowing how to have someone's back on the field and knowing how to speak to him off it turn out to be different skills.
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Smash or Pass

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Smash or Pass
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Ellie goes to beach volleyball camp after a breakup and ends up playing with Sierra, whose family has a history in the sport. Pick it for a romance where learning to rely on a doubles partner changes how both girls approach the court.
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Catching Jordan

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Catching Jordan
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Jordan Woods plans to play quarterback in college. Ty, another talented quarterback, arrives at her school and makes her think about recruitment and a crush at the same time. Try it for a football romance in which losing the starting job would mean losing something she has spent years building.
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Game, Set, Matched

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Game, Set, Matched
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Billie wants to reach the junior Wimbledon doubles final. When her twin brother Tom cannot compete, she has to team up with Harley, a neighbor she has disliked for years. Pick it for a romance where different attitudes to practice have immediate consequences for a pair's play.
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The Knockout

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The Knockout
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Kareena wants to fight Muay Thai at a higher level and has kept that ambition from people who expect her to do something more conventional. Getting closer to Amit puts another relationship on the line. Read it for combat training, family expectations, and a romance that gives the athlete space to compete.
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Coming Up for Air

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Coming Up for Air
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Swimmer Maggie and her longtime friend Levi already know each other's rhythms at practice. Things grow less predictable when Maggie asks him for help exploring what she has missed socially. Choose it for friends-to-lovers with meet schedules and training that leave both leads short on spare time.
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It's a Love/Skate Relationship

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It's a Love/Skate Relationship
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Hockey player Charlie teams up with figure skater Alexa after things fall apart with their usual partners and teammates. Choose it for two kinds of skater learning to work together on the same ice, with attraction changing what they notice about one another at practice.
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Some Girls Do

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Some Girls Do
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Morgan's track career gets a new start after she transfers, while Ruby wants room to make choices apart from beauty pageants and her mother. Start here if a runner with ambitions and a love interest who prefers working on cars sound like a more interesting match than two identical team stars.
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Racing Savannah

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Racing Savannah
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Savannah wants a chance to ride racehorses, and Jack has obligations as the owner's son. The choices they can make on a farm depend on who owns the horses and who gets to train them. Try it for a romance with riding ambition and class barriers built into the same setting.
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Breathe, Annie, Breathe

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Breathe, Annie, Breathe
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Annie begins marathon training to honor the boyfriend she lost and becomes drawn to Jeremiah, her coach's brother. Choose it if you want long runs and recovery days to provide structure for a slow romance that leaves space for grief.
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Fence: Striking Distance

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Fence: Striking Distance
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The Kings Row fencers train to earn respect on their school team while Harvard and Aiden's friendship starts to feel different. Try the prose novel if you want training and interschool rivalry alongside romance, or start with the graphic series for more time on the piste.
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