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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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31 May 2026
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“She really couldn’t stand her. Garcia was cocky, sarcastic, brash, her constant remarks and stupid nicknames annoying, if not slightly offensive. Unfortunately though, she was also hot as sin, extremely skilled with her hands - both in surgery and in bed -, and had a smile that - though not often present - could light up a room. And Baran was only a woman, after all.
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The only thing Baran was able to do in that moment was holding on to the surgeon's shoulders, fingers maybe a touch too rough, hoping in some part of her to leave marks with her nails on the surgeon’s perfect skin, a reminder that she was the one Garcia couldn't seem to stop coming back to, that it was Baran who got her to her knees. It takes two to tango, and all that.”
or: Baran Al-Hashimi and Yolanda Garcia can’t stand each other. Unfortunately, they also seem completely unable to stay away. Inevitably, chaos ensues.
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02 May 2026
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“If you bite me I’ll tell my mom who did it,” Victoria said as Santos scraped her teeth along the outline of her collarbone.
Santos groaned. “Oh my god, do not talk about your mom right now.”
In which Santos is a surgical resident and Eileen Shamsi's protege. Victoria tries to hate her for it.
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06 Apr 2026
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Five years.
Twenty matches.
One hotel, different floors and the kind of tension that has been mislabeled competitive awareness for far too long. Francesca and Michaela are the greatest rivalry in women's tennis — and, it turns out, each other's most inconvenient problem.
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26 Mar 2026
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“For what it’s worth…” Trinity says. “I didn’t kiss you to mess with you.”
Victoria should probably be embarrassed of how fast she turns around. “Really?”
It starts on the night of Victoria's twenty-first.
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