The Wax Room at Nationals
A Cross-Country Ski Romance

About this book:

In the brutal cold of a Utah December, former racer turned ski tech Miles Brody knows friction is the enemy—and he's built a reputation for eliminating it. When elite skier Maya Brooks walks into his wax tent with five pairs of ruined skis, a World Cup spot on the line, and zero patience for anything less than perfect, Miles sees just another high-maintenance athlete. But Maya doesn't just want fast skis; she wants to understand why they're fast. As they trade technical precision for late-night testing runs and the chemistry between them burns hotter than a fluorocarbon iron, the line between professional partnership and something far more dangerous begins to blur.

Maya Brooks has fought for every start gate, every equipment contract, every second on the clock. She doesn't have a factory truck or a team of techs—she has Miles, a man who reads snow crystals like poetry and treats her gear like it's his own Olympic shot. With the Senior National Championships looming and the temperature dropping, every wax layer, every structure pattern, every split-second decision on the hill becomes a gamble they're taking together. But in a sport where margins are measured in millimeters and careers end on a single bad wax job, trust is the scarcest resource of all.

From the toxic glamour of the wax tent to the silent, screaming speed of a perfectly tuned descent, *The Wax Room at Nationals* is a love story written in the language of physics—where the only thing more unforgiving than the cold is the truth about what you're willing to risk to win.