About Carve Me Free: A Steamy Enemies‑to‑Lovers, Forbidden Ski Romance
She is ice and scandal. He is speed and sin. When they meet, they turn heat into a weapon they can’t stop using. But can that last?
Having spent her life as a decoration for her scandalously rich father, Élise Moreau finds her rebellion in a reckless downhill racer. Escaping an Olympic gala, she takes him up on his offer to be free and wild in his arms. One reckless Olympic night. No names. Just escape, freedom, and the kind of sex that brands itself into your bones.
Nico Reiner is the golden, reckless Super-G talent of Austria, hurling himself down the ice like he’s furious at the mountain and flirting his way through camera crews and fan girls. He’s used to casual hook-ups, easy worship, and being the wildest thing in any room—until one perfectly polished princess looks at him like he’s beneath her, then kisses him like she wants to burn her whole life down.
They were not supposed to meet again. But months later, Austria’s new speed hero locks eyes with his mystery girl at a World Cup sponsor party—and finds out the wild stranger from his bed is the Moreau heiress whose disgraced dynasty now quietly owns his skis.
What starts as a filthy, anonymous rebellion turns into a season-long obsession they can’t tame. As the stakes climb, they learn lust is easy; love is brutal. When crashes threaten careers, tabloids circle like vultures, and her father moves in for the kill, Nico and Élise have to face something far scarier than breaking rules: sacrifice, letting go of each other’s leash, and choosing a grown-up love they actually have to earn.
Carve Me Free is the second standalone book in the Carve series: a scorching World Cup sports romance for readers who crave enemies to lovers and a forbidden relationship that refuses to stay secret. Expect a golden boy with cracks, a black-cat heiress fighting out of her gilded cage, sharp class lines, and a season that forces them both to grow up if they want their love to survive.
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Author Bio:
Mara J. Ova writes contemporary romance that burns hot and cuts deep, where love is always tangled up with risk. She’s the creator of The Carved Heart Series — stories set in the high-speed, high-stakes world of alpine skiing, filled with dangerous slopes, fearless women, and men who know exactly how to make you weak in the knees.
All of her books connect inside the Maraverse, a universe where athletes, dreamers, and daredevils chase glory — and just as often, stumble headfirst into love.
A lifelong skier and devoted fan of the Alps, Mara brings adrenaline-soaked settings to life in her romances, from frozen mountainsides to rushing rivers. And when the writing day is over, she’ll never say no to a glass of crisp, dry white wine.