Match Point

By: Juno Reardon

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Marisol Veracruz holds Immy Trier's right calf in both hands and counts to thirty in her head. The thirty seconds are clinical. They are also the only thirty seconds of the day Sol does not have to pretend she is not in love with her. She has been doing this for two and a half years. Immy has not noticed.

Immy is British, world #7, and ninety days from losing her largest endorsement unless she can convince a mega-brand sponsor she is a stable, marriageable, photographable young woman. Her solution is a fake marriage. Her physio is the only person in her life who has ever refused to want anything from her, which makes Sol the obvious — and only — candidate.

Sol cannot say no to Immy about anything, ever. She has known this about herself for two and a half years.

The Wimbledon flat. The room across the landing. The engagement-party photo ops. Sol moves into the performance of a relationship she would have killed for if anyone had ever offered, watches Immy come home from dates Sol believes she is still going on, and does not say a word.

The reader knows from page one. Immy will get there last. The cost of figuring it out is what makes the trilogy end here.

Tour Year, Book 3 — sapphic marriage of convenience, forbidden physio-client pining, the slowest burn paying off the absolute fastest. The trilogy ends here.