Cassia Voss is the most hated woman in figure skating. Six years after a collision ended another skater's career, she remains the villain of the story everyone loves to retell. Only one person knows the truth about that day: Rhea Calloway, her Canadian rival, her opposite on the ice, and her secret wife of eighteen months.

Then Cassia's blade fails during an Olympic-season practice. She wakes in hospital with four years of memory gone, certain that Rhea is still her enemy and that the woman at her bedside cannot be trusted. Rhea must care for a spouse who does not remember loving her, hide a marriage their federation would destroy them for, and watch Cassia fall for her all over again without knowing she already has.

Someone tampered with that skate, and the fall was not the end of the plan. Behind the competition stand a controlling mother and manager, rival coaches who see the marriage as a liability, an equipment manager being blackmailed, and a wealthy patron whose obsession has been patient for years. As Cassia rebuilds her skating and her memory in fragments, she and Rhea hunt for who wanted her off the ice for good.

Inside, you will find:
• Rival Olympic figure skaters who are secretly married
• A heroine who wakes with four years of memory missing
• A wife forced to earn her own spouse's trust again
• Sabotaged equipment and a fall that was no accident
• Controlling families, coaches, and federation pressure
• A patron's long obsession behind the sabotage
• A second falling in love, harder than the first

Cassia has always believed she must earn love by winning, and Rhea has always protected people by withholding the truth. Both habits are breaking. To survive the season and the saboteur, they must choose honesty over performance, even when the truth could cost them their careers, their medals, and the quiet life they built in secret.

Sweeping, sharp, and deeply romantic, this is a story about being known instead of merely forgiven. It promises elite skating, real danger, and two women who choose each other twice: once in secret, and once where it counts.

Avery Lorne

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