Deep End
Ali Hazelwood
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 300 ratings · 464 pages · Published: 04 Feb 2025
Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.
Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.
So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...
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- college 53
- m-f romance 52
- contemporary 51
- athlete hero 48
- praise kink 47
- athlete heroine 46
- first person pov 45
- secret relationship 44
- bdsm 43
- anal sex 42
- spanking 39
- new adult 37
- other man/woman 33
- competent heroine 30
- independent heroine 28
- friends with benefits 28
- caretaking 28
- sweet/gentle hero 27
- tortured heroine 23
- alpha male 23
- hurt/comfort 22
- nerdy hero 20
- funny 17
- sweet/gentle heroine 16
- love triangle 13
- masc-dom 12
- angst 8
- height difference 6
- shy heroine 6
- tortured hero 5
- possessive hero 3
- forbidden love 1
- insta-love 1
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- past child abuse 24
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- mental illness 18
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