Dawn relay practice. Lane four. The captain steps into his shower and doesn’t look away.
Caleb has spent four years perfecting one skill: how to want Dex without anyone noticing. Three weeks of dawn practice sharing a lane — every flipturn brushing skin, every breakout stroke close enough to feel the wake off Dex’s body. He’s managed. Barely. Then the pool deck empties and Dex walks into Caleb’s shower stall, no towel, no hesitation, steam curling between them.
“You’re staring again,” Dex says. His hand finds Caleb’s hip under the water. The tile is cold against Caleb’s back. The captain’s mouth tastes like chlorine and Caleb stops breathing for reasons that have nothing to do with swimming.
HEART RATE (Locker Room Book 17) is a scorching teammates-to-lovers MM swimming romance featuring straight-to-gay awakening, dawn practice tension, and a shower stall with no room for pretending. Standalone. No cliffhanger.
Content Note: Explicit MM scenes, first-time gay experiences, and intense pool and locker room encounters between teammates. Maximum heat. No fade to black.
