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Heart Check

by Emily Charlotte

Clashing assumptions, shared shifts

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Clashing assumptions, shared shifts

Luke Dawson and Harper Braedon move through the same school and diner shifts, but see each other through sharply different assumptions: he is focused on hockey, while she devotes herself to jewelry-making and resents the resources given to the team. When Dawson’s coach is fired over misallocated funds and a rumor points to Harper, their conflict gains a new stake. The after-school job keeps them working together as questions of fairness, ambition, and first impressions complicate their rivalry. The setup places a contemporary young adult romance alongside tensions between school sports and the arts, with the central relationship tested by both personal grudges and competing priorities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult romance readers interested in rivals forced to work together.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving school sports, arts, and competing priorities.
  • Readers who enjoy contemporary romantic comedy premises built around misunderstandings and reconsidered assumptions.

Themes

First impressions and assumptionsSports and arts fundingAmbition and school prioritiesRivalry and common ground

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For the first printing only! This paperback features stenciled sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts.

A star hockey player and his biggest critic must reexamine their assumptions about each other when forced to work together at an after-school job in this feel-good young adult rom-com debut about breaking the ice.

Luke Dawson and Harper Braedon could have been friends. They trade shifts at the same diner, share classes at school, and are driven by their greatest passions: hockey for Dawson and jewelry-making for Harper. But some things aren't meant to be. Dawson thinks Harper is stuck-up, too good for anything resembling school spirit. Harper thinks Dawson is a self-centered jock, a perfect fit for a hockey team that seems to absorb all the budget away from the arts departments.

When his beloved hockey coach gets fired for misallocation of funds, Dawson is terrified that all his plans for impressing scouts are vanishing before his eyes. A rumor goes around that Harper was the one who got him fired, and suddenly she's public enemy number one.

But even with their mutual dislike at an all-time high, Harper and Dawson can't escape splitting shifts forever. Can forced proximity help them find some common ground, or will long-held grudges finally succeed in bringing them both down?
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