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Crossing the Line by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount

A patch of black ice is all it takes for Ryan “Preach” Armstrong’s perfectly planned future to skid out of control. The car crash shatters his hockey dreams…and injures Woodhaven’s newest student, Grace Milner. As much as this feisty track phenom gets under Preach’s skin in all the best and worst ways, she might just be his path to redemption…

Grace can’t believe that all it took was seriously bad timing and a hot but prickly hockey player to threaten her lifelong dream of joining the Air Force. Now, instead of prepping for the track season and upcoming start of basic training, she has to complete community service with the absolute last person she would ever want to be stuck with—the guy who shattered her future.
When two fierce competitors collide this hard, the only result is heartbreak…or an epic victory as they cross the finish line together.

Crossing the Line is a sweet enemies-to-lovers YA sports romance taking place in the same town as In the Penalty Box. It’s a story about grief, resilience, and learning how to move forward when life throws you a curveball. Grace and Preach start off on the wrong foot but watching the two grow closer as they learn to lean on each other was an emotional and ultimately uplifting read. Both characters were dealing with so much and I just wanted so badly for things to work out for them in the end. While this is the second book in a series, Crossing the Line can be read as a standalone so don’t hesitate to pick it up!