COUNTERPUNCH: HER BOXING PRODIGY

Elowen Sterling is sarcastic, gloomy, and too tired to care what anyone thinks. Between juggling college, two part-time jobs, and keeping her twin brother afloat after their father’s death, she has learned how to survive by keeping her head down and her guard up. Then her scholarship gets pulled, and the only way to get it back is to coach the one man she swore she would never look at without killing. Lucian Langford. The golden champion of boxing who shattered her brother’s career and nearly his life. Now he is back from rehabilitation, all charm and apologies, clean-cut and sober, with the Harrington board cutting her a deal to help him revive his career, if she still wanted her scholarship and that of her brother intact. Elowen wants his head for breakfast. and she plans to keep it that way, but every punch, every stare across the ring, bounces closer to something neither of them are ready to face. Because Lucian Langford is hiding more than he lets on. And when the limelight burns too bright. Darker shadows come to light.