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She built her empire by letting no one in. Then Zoe Aspen walked through the door and forgot to read the warning signs.
Margaux Justin doesn't do warmth. She does results. As LA's most feared sports agent, she's spent a decade building an empire on precision, control, and the iron-clad refusal to need anyone. It works. Perfectly. Until she hires a sports psychologist to fix her star client's mental game — and ends up with Zoe Aspen.
Zoe is everything Margaux doesn't trust. Warm. Instinctive. Completely unbothered by a reputation that makes industry veterans step carefully. And maddeningly, impossibly good at her job.
What starts as a strictly professional arrangement unravels in the most inconvenient way. Late nights dissecting match data turn into real conversations. Real conversations turn into something neither of them has a framework for. And when a rival agent launches a calculated campaign to dismantle everything Margaux has spent ten years building — weaponising an insider leak, a fabricated complaint, and the one moment of vulnerability she allowed herself — Margaux is forced to confront the question she's never had to ask before.
What, exactly, is she protecting?
Because the walls that kept her empire standing are the same walls keeping Zoe out. And Zoe, it turns out, is the one thing Margaux never thought to build a defence against.
Playing Her is a slow-burn, ice queen/sunshine sapphic romance set in the high-stakes world of professional tennis. Enemies-to-lovers. One soft woman vs. one woman who swears she doesn't do soft. Prepare for walls. Prepare for cracks.
Standalone read in the LA Ice Queen series.
Genre: Gay Romance
Margaux Justin doesn't do warmth. She does results. As LA's most feared sports agent, she's spent a decade building an empire on precision, control, and the iron-clad refusal to need anyone. It works. Perfectly. Until she hires a sports psychologist to fix her star client's mental game — and ends up with Zoe Aspen.
Zoe is everything Margaux doesn't trust. Warm. Instinctive. Completely unbothered by a reputation that makes industry veterans step carefully. And maddeningly, impossibly good at her job.
What starts as a strictly professional arrangement unravels in the most inconvenient way. Late nights dissecting match data turn into real conversations. Real conversations turn into something neither of them has a framework for. And when a rival agent launches a calculated campaign to dismantle everything Margaux has spent ten years building — weaponising an insider leak, a fabricated complaint, and the one moment of vulnerability she allowed herself — Margaux is forced to confront the question she's never had to ask before.
What, exactly, is she protecting?
Because the walls that kept her empire standing are the same walls keeping Zoe out. And Zoe, it turns out, is the one thing Margaux never thought to build a defence against.
Playing Her is a slow-burn, ice queen/sunshine sapphic romance set in the high-stakes world of professional tennis. Enemies-to-lovers. One soft woman vs. one woman who swears she doesn't do soft. Prepare for walls. Prepare for cracks.
Standalone read in the LA Ice Queen series.
Genre: Gay Romance