Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

Steamy College Sports Romance with Forbidden Love and Olympic Stakes. From The Love Hypothesis author Ali Hazelwood comes Deep End—a sizzling, emotional college romance that pairs a fiercely focused diver with a golden-boy swimmer in a high-stakes, slow-burn arrangement that turns dangerously real.

From the back cover:

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water....

What you'll love about it:

Tropes & Themes: Slow-burn chemistry, enemies to lovers tension, college setting, fake dating, elite athlete romance
Spice Level: 4/5

Product information:

Format: Paperback
Page Count: 464