The one thing you can't train for…
Ashar Ellahi has earned his place on the Norwegian national biathlon team the hard way, with precision, control, and years of work that left no room for anything else. In a sport like biathlon, in a country like Norway, he's spent his entire career proving he belongs there on his own terms.
Magnus Vik has spent his career being the face of Norwegian biathlon; wild, magnetic, and reliably controversial in ways that make sponsors nervous and audiences love him anyway. What nobody knows is that he's also carrying a hip injury that could end his career much sooner than he wants to admit.
They want the same thing. The Olympics are coming, and neither of them can afford to fail. The problem is they go about everything differently, and the spark between them is as inconvenient as it is undeniable.
Stuck in the same facility, training toward the same Games, and professionally dependent on each other in ways neither of them asked for, distance stops being an option. Magnus has spent years building a public life that leaves no room for something real, and Ashar has spent years building a private one that leaves no room for anything unpredictable.
Falling for each other is both so right and so wrong.
Set in the competitive world of Norwegian elite biathlon, this is a story about two men who are very good at controlling everything, and what happens when they meet the one thing they can't: each other.
