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Playing Wide: A Sapphic Sports Romance Novella
She was supposed to be just another player on the scouting report.
She became impossible to ignore.
Mara Behrens lives by logic, not impulse. As Hoffenheim’s data analyst, her job is to see the game before it happens — to find space where no one else is looking. But when the club’s newest signing, Swedish star Freja Lindström, steps onto the pitch, Mara sees more than tactics. She sees possibility.
Freja has always played in the center, where control is hers. But Mara wants to push her wide — on the field and, slowly, into her carefully guarded life. What begins as professional tension sharpens into something late-night video reviews that turn personal, stolen moments off the pitch, and the kind of chemistry neither can reduce to numbers.
But ambition comes with consequences. Freja is destined for bigger stages, and Mara knows better than anyone that love and football rarely play by the same rules.
Playing Wide is a slow-burn sapphic sports romance about ambition, vulnerability, and the spaces we choose to open — or protect.
Slow-burn sapphic romance with moderate heat. Emotional intimacy and chemistry build gradually, culminating in sensual but not overly graphic scenes.
She became impossible to ignore.
Mara Behrens lives by logic, not impulse. As Hoffenheim’s data analyst, her job is to see the game before it happens — to find space where no one else is looking. But when the club’s newest signing, Swedish star Freja Lindström, steps onto the pitch, Mara sees more than tactics. She sees possibility.
Freja has always played in the center, where control is hers. But Mara wants to push her wide — on the field and, slowly, into her carefully guarded life. What begins as professional tension sharpens into something late-night video reviews that turn personal, stolen moments off the pitch, and the kind of chemistry neither can reduce to numbers.
But ambition comes with consequences. Freja is destined for bigger stages, and Mara knows better than anyone that love and football rarely play by the same rules.
Playing Wide is a slow-burn sapphic sports romance about ambition, vulnerability, and the spaces we choose to open — or protect.
Slow-burn sapphic romance with moderate heat. Emotional intimacy and chemistry build gradually, culminating in sensual but not overly graphic scenes.
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2025
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