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Before the Applause
Marie Lewis-Alvarez knew Tyler Wright before the world did.
Before the stadium lights. Before the interviews. Before his name became one fans shouted from the stands. Back in college, Tyler was just the talented athlete with a quiet smile and a dream bigger than himself. Marie was the one person who saw past the ambition and understood the heart behind it.
They were young, inseparable, and convinced they had forever.
Then graduation came, and life took them in different directions.
Years later, Tyler has become a celebrated MBL player, surrounded by fame, pressure, and expectations. His career is everything he worked for, but the one person he never managed to forget is the woman who knew him before the applause.
When Tyler and Marie cross paths again, old feelings resurface, along with the memories of the love they left behind. But their second chance comes with challenges: the demands of his career, the weight of public attention, and the question of whether the people they've become can still fit together.
Marie fell for Tyler before the world was watching.
Now they have to find out if their love can survive after everyone starts looking.