Second Half Hearts: A Clean YA Comeback Romance
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- $55.00
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- $55.00
Descripción editorial
After a public breakdown on the court, a guarded point guard gets one last season to reclaim her game—until a steady transfer with his own scars makes comeback feel less like pressure and more like home.
She thought the gym would always remember her worst moment.
Celia has one last season to survive before Maple Ridge changes forever. After a public collapse turned her name into gossip, stepping back onto the court feels harder than losing ever did. She can handle drills, noise, and even the pressure of a final season. What she can't handle is being seen too clearly.
Then Matteo arrives.
He is a transfer with a calm voice, a taped wrist, and his own private history with rooms that ask too much. He doesn't try to rescue her. He just keeps showing up in the exact places where fear used to speak first. In the side gym before the crowd comes in. In the hallway after bad moments. At the line, when staying matters more than looking fearless.
As their final season pulls the school toward goodbye, Celia and Matteo build something steadier than easy confidence. One hallway. One game. One room at a time. And when the whole school is watching, they will have to decide whether a comeback is only about winning back the court—or about learning who you become when you stop leaving the room.
Second Half Hearts is a clean YA sports romance about pressure, trust, first love, and the kind of courage that doesn't always look loud.