Two roller derby leagues, one borrowed floor, and a woman who has kept every note her rival ever left beside the penalty clock.
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Maz Cabrera knows exactly how it feels when Corinne puts her on the floor. She’s less sure what to do when Corinne takes her hand after practice and holds on. Their rival leagues have to share a track, and a play that used to be a dare is suddenly an act of trust.
On the same oval, a substitute opens her locker to a gift from a secret admirer, two childhood friends stretch their last lap past midnight, and a retiring captain gets another chance with the woman who got tired of coming second to derby. The free prequel starts at the fitting bench, where Jo has been waiting years for Etta to lace up again.
A Sunday open skate brings the neighbours inside. Two rivals earn the first joint-team victory, a loaned pair of wheels makes an overlooked skater visible, and the late shift finds its own crowd. By the championship the captains can give up the star and still belong on the track.
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Etta has been lending out her old skates for so long that everybody assumes she has retired. Jo notices that Etta still oils the bearings. When a Sunday open skate needs one more adult demonstrator, Jo offers to rebuild the boots over four Friday nights. Etta can cope with badly behaved wheels. It’s the end of each fitting, when Jo takes her hands off Etta’s ankles, that is getting difficult.
Maz keeps a tally of every time Corinne has put her on the floor. Corinne keeps the little notes Maz leaves beside the penalty clock. Neither collection is strictly professional. When two leagues field a combined travel squad, the women have six weeks to learn a star pass together. Maz can flirt her way through most things. Handing Corinne the star means letting the whole hall see exactly how much she trusts her.
Somebody keeps leaving the perfect wheels in Pip’s cubby. Soft ones for the polished hall, hard ones for the sticky away floor. The unsigned notes are better than most dates. Pip would like to find the writer before she falls for her. Unfortunately the woman she already wants is Sal, the visiting skater with a beautiful mouth and the expensive gear Pip can barely bring herself to touch.
Lenka knows three reliable things about midnight practice. The floor sticks by the exit, the vending machine owes her six dollars, and Tish always saves her the last dance under the ancient mirror ball. They’ve been friends since they wore plastic skates. When their overnight scrimmage draws its first paying crowd, Lenka realises that Tish has been treating their last lap as a date. Now she has to decide what she wants the lights to come up on.
Dot has been threatening to retire for eleven seasons. This time the notice is on the board, signed in ink. Val, the woman who once begged her to pick a weekend that didn’t belong to derby, comes to collect her old gear. Neither expects to spend the championship teaching their replacements how to take a hit. Dot knows how to leave the track. She has never learned how to ask Val to stay.
The novella’s open skate puts rival skaters Maz and Corinne on the same floor. Their merger vote opens Book 1.
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