Deep End by Ali Hazelwood Summary
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Ali Hazelwood's #1 NYT Bestseller dives into forbidden Olympic dreams with Stanford athletes navigating intense competition and unexpected love. Featuring rare asexual representation, this steamy sports romance has readers declaring "if I could rate this 6 stars I would."
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When Passion Meets Control: The Collision of Two Worlds
Scarlett Vandermeer lives her life with precision. As a twenty-one-year-old Stanford diver with Olympic potential, every movement must be calculated-until a catastrophic accident fifteen months ago left her physically healed but mentally blocked. The "twisties" or "yips" as they're known in diving circles have stolen her ability to perform inward dives, the very ones she was executing when her world shattered. Though her therapist Sam gently probes about this psychological barrier, Scarlett resists acknowledging what's happening inside her mind. What makes her situation more complex is the perfect storm that preceded her fall. Her controlling father contacted her against a court order. Her boyfriend of three years dumped her right before competition. Then came the accident, captured on video for all to witness-though mercifully, she remembers nothing of those thirty seconds that divided her life into before and after. Her approach to recovery has been relentless forward motion, refusing to acknowledge emotional trauma. "You need to acknowledge that what happened was terrible," someone will eventually tell her, "that it gave you pain, and that you deserve time to heal in more ways than just physical." But first, she must confront what's truly holding her back-not fear of injury, but something far more fundamental.
Unexpected Confidences: The Power of Vulnerability
The Proposition: When Chemistry Ignites
Finding Freedom Through Surrender
Diving Back Into Life
Rising From the Depths
The Courage to Trust
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