Sign-In
Cart
Holding The Line
Paperback
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 18 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Lakeview Valkyries have been losing for so long that hope feels reckless.
When Claire Hawthorne goes first overall, she knows exactly what she's being asked to carry. A broken franchise. Impossible expectations. A team desperate for someone steady enough to hold it together. Leadership has always come naturally to her, but this time, it comes with nowhere to hide.
Then the Valkyries make a second pick no one sees coming.
Rowan Vega is chaos sharpened into talent. Fierce, volatile, unapologetic. Claire's longtime rival. The last person she ever expected to share a locker room with, let alone a future. Their history is built on opposition, resentment, and the kind of competition that leaves scars.
Forced together, the two women ignite something dangerous. On the ice, their chemistry threatens to change the fate of the franchise. Off it, tension blurs into desire, rivalry into connection, and control into vulnerability neither of them is prepared for. As the Valkyries claw their way from irrelevance to contention, every win raises the stakes, and every loss threatens to expose what they're risking by choosing each other.
In a league that punishes weakness and devours distraction, Claire and Rowan must decide what matters more: protecting themselves, or trusting the one person who sees them clearly.
Holding the Line is a story about pressure, power, and partnership. About what it costs to believe in something again. And about how love, like winning, is built not through domination, but through choosing the same direction and refusing to let go when everything tries to pull you apart.
Also from
Lovely, Lukas
Also in
General GLBTQIA Fiction
That's What Friends Are for: A Hilarious, Tender Story Based on the Golden Girls
Rouse, Wade
Hardcover
Heap Earth Upon It: Exclusive American Edition with Additional Material
Howarth, Chloe Michelle
Paperback
The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne: A Cozy, Sapphic Romantasy with Gardens, a Quest, and Lots of Spice!
England, Summer N.
Paperback
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan CI Fu (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 1
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Hardcover
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta de Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 11 (Special Edition)
Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
Paperback
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo DAO Zu Shi (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Vol. 5
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Hardcover
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Deluxe Hardcover Novel) Box Set
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Hardcover