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False Start: A Sapphic Rivals-to-Lovers Sports Romance
Paperback
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two rivals. One queen bed. A strip of painter's tape down the middle.
Sloane Mitchell runs on fury and grit. After growing up poor, she knows that speed is her only currency. She's fought her way to become the second-fastest 200-meter sprinter in America, and she won't let anything stop her from claiming Olympic gold.
Her biggest obstacle? Harper Chen.
Harper is the golden girl of American track and field. Sponsored, polished, and perfectly composed, she has beaten Sloane by a razor-thin .02 seconds in four straight finals. Sloane hates her. She hates her effortless stride, her perfect media smile, and the way Harper's mere presence makes her blood run hot.
When a flooded dorm at their high-altitude Olympic training camp forces them into the same room-and the same bed-Sloane draws a strict line of painter's tape right down the middle of the mattress. The rules are simple: stay on your side, don't touch, and keep the rivalry on the track.
But as the pressure of the Olympic Trials looms, the tape line begins to blur. Late-night arguments turn into breathless, tension-fueled encounters, and Sloane realizes the Ice Queen has a fire underneath her perfectly managed exterior.
Harper has spent her entire life hiding her true self to appease her parents and corporate sponsors. But Sloane demands the real Harper, and their explosive connection in the dark threatens to dismantle the carefully constructed architecture of Harper's life.
With a multimillion-dollar sponsorship on the line that demands a clean, family-friendly image, Harper has a choice to make. When the starting gun fires, will she run toward the safe path she's always known, or will she risk it all for the woman she can't stop touching?
False Start is a steamy, high-stakes, standalone sapphic sports romance featuring forced proximity, intense rivalry, and guaranteed happily ever after.
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