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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.
- GenresLesbian
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2025
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March 19, 2026
Same issues as the other book I’ve read. Too low on the details.
The breakup scene was unclear. Why did Freya try to stop Mara out of nowhere? It felt like scene was supposed to be Mara telling her they were breaking up, then started walking away, and then Freya tries to stop her, but you accidentally deleted the first half of that breakup scene. Freya didn’t know Mara was the one to send that email. At least you never wrote that she found out about it. She didn’t know Mara was about to dump her. As far as she was supposed to know, everything was dandy, so her behaviour was extremely weird. And wasn’t that an ethical violation to send that email if she’s working for another team?
Several other moments alluded to events that never show up in the story. There was one scene where Freya said something that made it seem like their thing continued between the first time they slept together in the hotel room and the moment when Mara suddenly appeared at her door, but it’s not in the book at all.
It’s full of plot holes, but not in the scene where they’re logical fallacies or inconsistencies. It feels more like certain scenes were just randomly deleted…
It’s all so confusing…
Anyway, I tried to find a way to reach out and offer my services as a professional giver of unsolicited opinions with too much time on their hands (see how many books I’ve read this year so far and you’ll get an idea of just how much time that is), alas there doesn’t seem to be any contact info anywhere, so reviews till then it is 🤷♀️
Jag pratar lite Svenska und ein bisschen Deutch if that convinces you to listen to my advice more lol
The breakup scene was unclear. Why did Freya try to stop Mara out of nowhere? It felt like scene was supposed to be Mara telling her they were breaking up, then started walking away, and then Freya tries to stop her, but you accidentally deleted the first half of that breakup scene. Freya didn’t know Mara was the one to send that email. At least you never wrote that she found out about it. She didn’t know Mara was about to dump her. As far as she was supposed to know, everything was dandy, so her behaviour was extremely weird. And wasn’t that an ethical violation to send that email if she’s working for another team?
Several other moments alluded to events that never show up in the story. There was one scene where Freya said something that made it seem like their thing continued between the first time they slept together in the hotel room and the moment when Mara suddenly appeared at her door, but it’s not in the book at all.
It’s full of plot holes, but not in the scene where they’re logical fallacies or inconsistencies. It feels more like certain scenes were just randomly deleted…
It’s all so confusing…
Anyway, I tried to find a way to reach out and offer my services as a professional giver of unsolicited opinions with too much time on their hands (see how many books I’ve read this year so far and you’ll get an idea of just how much time that is), alas there doesn’t seem to be any contact info anywhere, so reviews till then it is 🤷♀️
Jag pratar lite Svenska und ein bisschen Deutch if that convinces you to listen to my advice more lol
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