Kissing The Rival (eBook)

Camila Reyes and Jordan Blake have been swimming against each other since they were 16, and for 10 years the rivalry has been the only thing they agree on. He is the natural-born sprinter who always gets the last word. She is the distance swimmer who has made a religion out of the half-second she keeps missing. Now they have been put in the same training block at the Olympic Training Center, 12 weeks from Trials, and the coaches have made them train in the same lane. Drafting off each other. Matching each other's stroke. And the wire that has always been between them is no longer just about who touches the wall first. Camila has built her whole life on 1 rule: love takes the edge. She watched her father miss the Olympic team by a quarter-second and never recover, and she refuses to let a man do that to her. Jordan has spent a decade hiding behind the rivalry because it is safer than admitting what he feels. But fake kisses for the cameras and whispered confessions in the dark are not staying fake, and Trials are coming, and the half-second is not the only thing on the line anymore. Every time they swim next to each other they get faster, and every time they get faster they get closer, and the thing they were both afraid of is turning out to be the thing that might actually save them. Inside this enemies-to-lovers sports romance, you'll discover: - A slow-burn love story set between pace clocks, broken fifties, and one very long set of 20 hundreds - Two athletes who push each other faster than either of them has ever been alone - The cost of a father's missed chance, and the courage it takes to break a cycle - A championship showdown where the real race is deciding who you are when you are not swimming - A love story that proves the thing that makes you fast is the thing you were afraid to feel Because gold medals are won in seconds, but the heart takes a lifetime.