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Should've Kissed You Anyway: The Starting Five: Book 2
Paperback
Series: The Starting Five, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Anna has always known who she is on the court. Now a sophomore guard for the UCLA women's basketball team, her life has been built around discipline, routine, and one unbreakable rule: no dating during basketball season. No distractions. No complications. Just the game. It's a rule that's carried her through high school, through recruitment, through the pressure of playing at the highest level.But when her parents make the sudden decision to move back to Italy, the foundation she's built her life on begins to shift. UCLA was never just a school-it was home, chosen because it kept her close to family. Without them nearby, Anna finds herself untethered for the first time, balancing the weight of expectations with a loneliness she doesn't know how to name.
Tyler thought his future was already mapped out. A highly recruited baseball player with Division I offers lining up, UCLA made sense-his sister Ella was already there, his uncle worked on campus as a coach, and there was his uncle's beach house just outside campus waiting for him. What Tyler didn't expect was how crowded his life would become. Since he was staying in the house with Ella, the house was always full-teammates, friends, laughter, noise. Most of them were basketball players, orbiting around Ella and her girlfriend, the team captain. Tyler didn't mind the chaos. Not until a certain girl walked through the door.
Anna and Tyler clicked instantly-two fiercely competitive athletes from opposite coasts, bonded by sports and divided by lifelong team loyalties. Boston versus LA. Trash talk comes easy. So does understanding each other in ways no one else quite does. Falling for each other is effortless. Staying is not.
Between long practices, packed schedules, cross-country travel, and a rule Anna refuses to break, what begins as something simple turns into something complicated. Because love doesn't care about timing, and rules only work until they don't. In a world where everything is measured in wins and losses, Anna and Tyler must decide what they're willing to fight for-and whether some risks are worth taking.
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