This semester, they’re done drifting, it's time to go all in.
Earlene ‘Earl’ Drayton has spent four years skimming across the water at her HBCU, Crum University, chasing sunrise practice and the quiet kind of glory that doesn’t come with medals. A senior with no roadmap for life after graduation, she knows only one thing for certain, she refuses to become a carbon copy of her legendary mother whose shadow stretches across every boathouse in the country. Earl wants something different, something hers. But when Rashard Vance, stroke seat, campus golden boy, and freshly crowned Olympic champion, returns for his final year, the crush she’s been nursing surges back with a force she can’t outrun. And suddenly, the start of the school year feels like the beginning of something she’s not sure she’d ready for.
Rashard Vance returns to campus with two gold medals in his duffle bag and a heart full of unfinished business. The world sees an Olympic darling, America’s newest rowing phenom with a smile for magazine covers, but all he could think about on the podium was Earl, his best friend and quiet anchor who kept him steady long before fame found him. Now, with cameras trailing and recruiters circling, Rashard is finally ready to tell her the truth he’s been carrying for years. But navigating sudden celebrity, unexpected opportunities, and the pressure to choose between a risky professional career or the safer path won’t be simple. And confessing his feelings to Earl might be the bravest, and most uncertain, stroke he’s ever taken.
Genre: New Adult Romance
Earlene ‘Earl’ Drayton has spent four years skimming across the water at her HBCU, Crum University, chasing sunrise practice and the quiet kind of glory that doesn’t come with medals. A senior with no roadmap for life after graduation, she knows only one thing for certain, she refuses to become a carbon copy of her legendary mother whose shadow stretches across every boathouse in the country. Earl wants something different, something hers. But when Rashard Vance, stroke seat, campus golden boy, and freshly crowned Olympic champion, returns for his final year, the crush she’s been nursing surges back with a force she can’t outrun. And suddenly, the start of the school year feels like the beginning of something she’s not sure she’d ready for.
Rashard Vance returns to campus with two gold medals in his duffle bag and a heart full of unfinished business. The world sees an Olympic darling, America’s newest rowing phenom with a smile for magazine covers, but all he could think about on the podium was Earl, his best friend and quiet anchor who kept him steady long before fame found him. Now, with cameras trailing and recruiters circling, Rashard is finally ready to tell her the truth he’s been carrying for years. But navigating sudden celebrity, unexpected opportunities, and the pressure to choose between a risky professional career or the safer path won’t be simple. And confessing his feelings to Earl might be the bravest, and most uncertain, stroke he’s ever taken.
Genre: New Adult Romance
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