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Breathing Room by Rachel Matteo (Rachel_Matteo)
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV)
26 May 2026
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Shane Hollander arrives in Vegas with a question he hasn’t spoken out loud.
It isn’t complicated, exactly. It’s just the kind of question that requires honesty he isn’t sure he’s ready for - about what he and Ilya Rozanov have been doing for the past few years, about what six months of silence after Sochi actually meant, and about whether any of it is worth staying close to or whether he finally needs to go.
He gets his answer in a locked bathroom at the NHL Awards.
Ilya spends the summer convinced that Shane is fine. Upset? Yes. Angry? Definitely. But Shane always felt things fiercely despite what everyone said about him when he had his back turned. He’d calm down over the summer and then he’d be there like he always had been. He fills the silence with discipline and routine and the comfortable certainty that later is still available to him.
He’s wrong.
By the time Ilya understands what he actually lost, Shane is already gone; and Ilya is left trying to find a way back to someone who closed the door long before Ilya had ever thought to just walk through it.
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22 Jul 2026
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The Ballad of Boston Blues by Beachan
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
20 Jul 2026
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A freezing Boston sets the stage for a case that shouldn’t exist: a young man from the city’s elite found dead in the slums, under circumstances far too neat to be real. Detective Shane Hollander - methodical, unyielding, sharp enough to read a crime scene like a coded message - needs only a glance to sense that someone is steering the investigation off course.
Every lead points to the Raiders and their leader, Ilya Rozanov: a master of high‑stakes robberies, arrogant, unpredictable, dangerously magnetic. The perfect suspect, maybe too perfect. The deeper Shane digs, the clearer it becomes that a powerful hand is shaping the narrative, deciding who gets blamed and who stays untouchable.
As he follows trails that never make it into official reports - underground cage fights, glittering galas, unlikely alliances - Shane finds himself pulled into a maze of corruption and buried truths. And at the center of it stands Rozanov, a man who should be just a name on a file but the closer Shane gets to the truth, the more he feels another pull - dangerous, unexpected, and impossible to ignore.
or: Detective Shane and Gangster Ilya. A hard-boiled detective story. Rivalry, smuttyness, romance.
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20 Jul 2026
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There is something wrong with Asa that Pastor John cannot cure her of. No matter what they do, the Devil still has his hooks in her and won't let go. Her family is desperate, and Asa is terrified.
Jack doesn't understand how someone could look at this kid and put her through the ringer time and time again, when she's only a child and never asked for any of this.
They make an unlikely duo, but somehow it works, and Robby can only find himself going along with them.
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01 Jul 2026