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Kiara Russo thought she had left the ice behind for good.
After a career-changing knee injury and the loss of her mother, the one thing she once loved became impossible to face. Trading early mornings at the rink for quiet shifts at a local cafΓ©, Kiara convinced herself that moving on meant never looking back.
Then Brayden Elliott arrives.
Focused, disciplined, and determined to make his new skating partnership with Adriana Russo work, Brayden comes to town expecting a fresh start and a clear path forward.
Instead, he finds Kiara.
What starts as a coincidence quickly turns into something neither of them expected. Because when they step onto the ice together for the first time, everything feels effortless - as if her body never forgot and as if he had been searching for the wrong thing all along.
But Kiara already has a life she built away from skating. She has a boyfriend who stayed when everything else fell apart. And returning to the ice means reopening parts of herself she promised would stay buried.
Caught between who she used to be, who she is now, and the connection she never saw coming, Kiara begins to realise that sometimes the hardest thing isn't starting over-
it's admitting you never truly let go.