Deep End
Multiple explicit scenes with detail; sex is a real part of the plot.
Graphic. Crude, explicit vocabulary throughout the scenes.
Estimated from the blurb · 0 reader votes · Ending HEA
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Blurb
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! This special first edition will have striking cover effects, beautiful interior cover art, and stenciled edges! A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself. Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes. So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...
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Love on the Brain
Same author's banter-heavy academic slow burn with forced teamwork, just fade-to-black-ish heat instead of the pool's explicit tension.
Abaixo de zero
Another Hazelwood rival-scientists pressure cooker with only-one-bed proximity; lighter and less spicy than the diving forbidden-romance.
The Ship of Brides
Shipboard forced proximity and a forbidden attraction burning very slowly, but historical, chaste, and far more melancholy.
Maybe someday
College-set forbidden attraction with intense slow burn and close quarters; heavier emotionally, with cheating and grief instead of sports rivalry.
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Keeps the forbidden bargain and aching restraint, but trades athletic realism for fae curses and near-zero spice.
Attachments
Workplace slow burn built on secret longing and awkward ethics; sweeter, funnier, and far tamer than the pool-deck heat.