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    Summer 2007: Shane Hollander arrives at a remote Wyoming summer camp with one goal: prove himself as Activities Director and secure the job permanently when current director Scott Hunter steps down at the end of the season. He needs this job: structure, stability, a future he can finally hold onto.

    What he doesn’t expect is Ilya Rozanov.

    The camp’s barn manager is sharp, self-contained, and impossible to ignore. It quickly becomes clear he’s not just a coworker, but Shane’s biggest competition for Scott’s position. Their friction is immediate, their clashes constant, and working together is impossible.

    Their chemistry is worse.

    As long days blur into charged nights and forced collaboration pulls them closer, the line between rivalry and something far more dangerous begins to erode, and a reckless decision to cross the line shifts everything, leaving Shane caught between what he wants and what he’s worked so hard to build.

    Wanting Ilya might cost him the job he came here to win. But walking away might cost him something he’s not sure he can live without.

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    08 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 48

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    Shane is an actor. It’s what he’s always wanted. Not really the fame part of it though, but to be a part of a movie or a show. That is his dream.
    Now the show he is on has become ridiculously popular and he struggles with how much his life will be scrutinized. And to make everything worse, the show has hired a new actor who is making Shane feel things he really shouldn’t be feeling.

     

    Ilya used to be a hockeyplayer. A good one. Unfortunately that career path didn’t go the way he wanted, so now he is breaking into the acting world. And when the lead of the show he has recently been hired to be in instantly hates him, Ilya is infatuated. With him, his weird habits and his adorable freckles.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    I want to wake up to you tomorrow. If you don’t want that, that’s okay, but give me my agency, Ilya. Believe me when I say I want you or let me try to pick up the pieces without you.

    Five months ago, Ilya walked out of Shane’s life and their marriage. Shane has been trying to pick up the pieces. A late night phone call could either unravel everything or be the start of a new beginning.

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    03 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 26

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    It was supposed to be casual, until Ilya saw Shane with his best friend. Now, he refuses to admit he cares, choosing to hurt Shane back instead. It is the start of a long, dark game. And both men are going to bleed.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    15 years after they got married Shane and Ilya go through a painful divorce.
    5 years on and they are both forced to attend the wedding of their daughter, Izabella, to Hayden Pike's youngest son.
    Ilya isn't sure what is worse, that Callum Pike looks eerily similar to his father, or that Shane is bringing his new boyfriend to the wedding.
    Shane isn't sure that he is going to survive a long weekend with his ex husband on a Greek island.
    One island. One long weekend. One wedding. 7 Pikes. Two secretly broken hearts. What could possibly go wrong?

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    02 Jun 2026