The Last Pirouette

Name: The Last Pirouette
Author: Leigh Duncan

45 pages

Seventeen-year-old Harper Quinn lives and breathes ballet. It’s in her bones, in the precise arch of her foot, in the future she’s meticulously planned—a future that evaporates the moment a car accident shatters her leg and her scholarship dreams. Now, instead of soaring across a stage, she’s trapped in a world of sterile physical therapy rooms, consumed by a bitter grief for the life she can no longer live. Her perfect discipline has been replaced by sarcasm and a fierce determination to keep everyone at a distance.

Enter Liam Hayes. As the school’s star hockey captain, he’s all easy smiles, charismatic confidence, and annoying optimism. He’s also the newest member of Harper’s physical therapy group, recovering from a shoulder injury that could permanently bench him. He hides his own terror behind a golden-boy mask, but he sees the cracks in Harper’s armor with an unnerving clarity she can’t stand.

When their therapist pairs them up for a new peer-recovery program, their worlds collide in a clash of ice and hardwood, grace and brute force. They are each other’s polar opposite and the only person who might understand. As they trade barbs and challenge each other’s limits, the friction between them sparks an unexpected connection. But for two people who have built their entire identities around their physical prowess, learning to be vulnerable is the hardest move of all. They might not be able to get their old lives back, but together, they might just learn to dance again.

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