It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

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Paperback. ISBN: 0063370875

Figure skating is elegant. Hockey is controlled chaos. Falling in love somewhere between the two? Absolute disaster.

It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson is a sparkling sapphic young adult sports romance packed with rivals-to-lovers tension, emotional growth, competitive skating drama, and enough chemistry to melt an entire ice rink.

Charlie Porter lives for hockey. Fierce, impulsive, and permanently fueled by competitive energy, she’s used to fighting hard both on and off the ice. But after a heated post-game brawl gets her suspended from school athletics, Charlie’s future suddenly looks terrifyingly uncertain. No season means no scouts. No scouts means no scholarship opportunities. And without hockey, Charlie barely knows who she is anymore.

Meanwhile, elite figure skater Alexa Goldstein faces a crisis of her own. When her skating partner is injured during the very same fight that derails Charlie’s hockey career, Alexa is left scrambling only months before a critical competition. With no viable replacement in sight, she proposes an outrageous solution:

Charlie becomes her new pairs partner.

The arrangement sounds impossible. Charlie has never figure skated before, and she and Alexa clash immediately. Charlie is loud, emotional, and reckless; Alexa is polished, disciplined, and seemingly carved from ice itself. Every practice session becomes a battlefield of bruised egos, sharp banter, and mutual frustration.

But somewhere between failed lifts, tense rehearsals, and late-night training sessions, the frost between them begins to thaw.

As competition pressure mounts and attraction grows impossible to ignore, Charlie and Alexa discover that partnership requires more than technical skill. It demands trust, vulnerability, and the courage to let someone truly see you beneath the armor.

Funny, heartfelt, and emotionally authentic, It’s a Love/Skate Relationship delivers everything readers love about young adult sapphic romance: slow-burn chemistry, lovable characters, sports rivalry, found confidence, and big feelings unfolding under arena lights.

Perfect for fans of enemies-to-lovers romance, queer YA fiction, sports stories, and heroines who crash into love at full speed wearing ice skates.

Triple axels are hard.
Teen feelings are worse.