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Each book in this series features a different couple and a complete happily ever after.

Kirby Tannenbaum is the US team's most marketable player — photogenic, quick-witted, brilliant in every press conference, the face of the federation's Olympic media campaign. She is also having the sexuality crisis of her entire life and her primary coping strategy is pretending it isn't happening, which is not working because Palmer Reyes keeps existing in their shared apartment while wearing those fitted suits to team events.

Palmer Reyes has been in love with Kirby for two years. She's made her peace with it. She has absolutely not made her peace with it, but she is functional, the on-ice chemistry is the best in the program, and she only thinks about it at night and occasionally during every drill they run together. When Kirby's agent arranges a fake-dating situation with a male hockey player for brand optics, Palmer watches it happen from across their living room and says nothing, because what would she say.

When the arrangement implodes publicly and Kirby spirals, she asks Palmer to help her figure out what she's feeling. Just between them. Doesn't have to mean anything.

Palmer says yes because she is a complete idiot who cannot say no to Kirby Tannenbaum. It means everything immediately.

The comedy of Kirby's internal disaster as she realizes exactly what she wants is peak chaos. But underneath the rationalizations and the panicked observations and the this-is-fine energy while everything is clearly on fire: the real cost of the closet in an Olympic year, the weight of being the team's uncomplicated face, and a love between two women that has waited two years to be loud.

How long can Kirby keep pretending she doesn't know exactly what she wants — and how long will Palmer let her?