The Boy Who Couldn't Stay Afloat: A Steamy New Adult MM Sports Romance (The Mapleby Harbor Collection #3)
June D. Narron
Adriel Laurent and Amari Cole hate each other on sight.
Available in Kindle Unlimited.
When the disgraced heir to a collapsed fortune transfers to Mapleby High Preparatory, everything about Adriel screams wrong—the designer clothes that don’t match his new reality, the cold arrogance that keeps everyone at arm’s length, and the unmistakable air of someone who’s fallen hard from grace.
Amari Cole, the school’s star swimmer working two jobs to stay afloat, has zero patience for rich boys who think poverty is temporary.
Until the day Adriel nearly drowns in the lake.
Amari saves him, only to discover that the untouchable, infuriating Adriel Laurent is terrified of the water. Desperate to conquer a fear he refuses to explain, Adriel strikes a deal with the one person he can't stand: Amari will teach him how to swim.
But what begins as hostile lessons in the pool quickly turns into something far more dangerous. Beneath Adriel’s icy façade is a boy drowning in pressure and secrets. Secrets like the money disappearing from family accounts, the late-night calls he won’t explain, and a shadow from his past that refuses to let him go.
The deeper Amari falls, the clearer the truth becomes: Adriel isn’t just hiding something—he’s being destroyed by it. Now, Adriel must choose between the legacy that defines him or risking everything for the one person who finally sees him.
He’s the star swimmer. The other is a disgraced heir terrified of the water.
Discover a gritty, heart-wrenching MM sports romance featuring:
- Enemies-to-Lovers Tension
- Opposites Attract & Class Difference
- "Teach Me" Swimming Lessons
- Trauma Healing & Deep Secrets
- A Hopeful HFN (Happily For Now) Ending
Because learning to swim might save Adriel’s life... but learning to trust could cost him everything.
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