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    612-822-4611

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Ground Truth

Ground Truth

Vey, Tyler

Paperback

Series: Ignite Miami

RomanceGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798194641260
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Marcus Vale has spent most of his life knowing exactly what to do when a man gets close. A former Division II wrestler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu purple belt, he can put people on the floor, keep them there, and make difficult grappling look simple. Then a cash fight in a Miami warehouse gives him the win he wanted-and a videotape that shows how much of the fight he never understood.

At IGNITE, thoughtful grappling coach Cal Hayes refuses to let Marcus confuse a spectacular finish with a complete game. Gruff boxing coach Vic Sokolov and Muay Thai coach Nate Rourke help strip his habits down and rebuild the connections between them. Marcus does not need twenty new techniques. He needs his hands, feet, wrestling, and jiu-jitsu to keep working when somebody hits him, stuffs the first shot, changes the angle, or makes the safe position useless.

Nadine Baptiste has returned to Miami with her own structure under load. An architect risking her savings and reputation on an industrial conversion, she knows that strength means more than looking solid from the outside. She and Marcus have years of friendship, attraction, and unfinished history between them. The chemistry is still easy. The future is not. Nadine will not keep accepting whatever part of Marcus is left after work, training, coaching, and the next fight take their share.

When Marcus accepts a legitimate fight at 185 pounds, eight weeks of camp turn confidence into evidence. Every round asks the same question in a different form: can he see what is actually happening before pride chooses the answer for him? The better he becomes in the ring, the harder it is to ignore the same problem outside it. Winning a fight is one thing. Building a life that can hold pressure without sacrificing the people inside it is another.

Ground Truth is a gritty, open-door friends-to-lovers and second-chance sports romance about a gifted wrestler learning to become a complete mixed martial artist and an ambitious architect who refuses to settle for an unfinished relationship. The fights are technical, the training is hard, the chemistry is adult, and every victory costs enough to reveal what Marcus actually values.

IGNITE Miami is a gritty combat sports romance series where hard training, bruising fights, passionate relationships, and earned happily-ever-afters build a gym into a community with a code. Read the other IGNITE Miami novels to follow the coaches and fighters who bring their own scars, strengths, and hard-won lessons to IGNITE.

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