Kiss Me, Captain
by itsvlada
🏳️🌈 A steamy campus romance with an LGBTQ+ trope and plenty of passion…
- Genre
- Romance
- Chapters
- 165
- Status
- Completed
- Reads
- 30K
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Emily transfers to Lakeview University with a goal in mind, to be a competitive figure skater and skate at the Nationals. She is focused on her goal and does not expect to meet Maddison Reyes, her childhood best friend, who meant everything to her.
The problem is that the Maddy she meets now is completely different. She is confident, guarded, and the team captain with a chip on her shoulder. Old memories come back, and old wounds resurface. It starts as hostility because of their past and turns into something complicated.
There is rivalry, attraction, and feelings that have not gone away. Emily questions her past and her sexuality. With the social pressure and high stakes of competition, both girls must decide what matters more: protecting themselves or risking everything for a second chance.
Themes Discussed in Kiss Me, Captain
🩹 Vulnerability and healing
🕊️ Lost friendship and second chances
🍓 Sexuality & self-discovery
Reasons to Read Kiss Me, Captain
🚀 Identity exploration with personal growth
👩❤️👨 Enemies to lovers romance
⛸️ Sports competition with an edge
😢 Tension and heartfelt moments
Meet The Main Characters
♀️ Emily
She is a talented figure skater looking to escape her painful past. Emily is introspective and has a barrier to prevent getting hurt. She is struggling with her identity and unresolved feelings.
♀️ Maddison
An elite figure skater and captain of the team. Maddison seems confident, sharp, and untouchable from the outside. But within, she carries emotional baggage from her past. She uses her attitude as her defence mechanism to protect herself.
👩❤️💋👩This story is stuffed with conflicts and steamy moments you will not want to end. If you like a book that explores chemistry between main characters, Kiss Me, Captain is the one you can’t miss.
Kiss Me, Captain synopsis
Emily transferred to Lakeview University for one reason: a scholarship to a figure skating program that could launch her to Nationals. She came for the ice, the opportunity, and the eight hundred miles of distance from her mother's endless attempts to set her up with "nice boys." She didn't come for Madison Reyes.
She was her best friend once—inseparable from ages eight to twelve, the kind of friendship that felt permanent. Then Maddie's family moved away, the letters stopped, and Emily buried that loss somewhere she didn't have to look at it. The Maddie waiting for her at Lakeview isn't the girl she remembers. This Maddie is polished, untouchable, and team captain—and she greets Emily with a smile and words sharp enough to cut.
Their hatred curdles into charged glances, dangerous games, and encounters that leave Emily questioning everything she thought she knew about herself and her sexuality.
With Nationals approaching, scholarships on the line, and a vicious social hierarchy ready to destroy them both, Emily and Maddie must decide what matters more: the walls they've built to survive, or the terrifying possibility that the person who threatens everything might also be the only one who truly sees them.
Read Kiss Me, Captain – Chapter 1
[Emily’s POV]
The thing about starting over is that nobody tells you how exhausting it is to pretend you know what the fuck you're doing.
Two hours ago, things were simpler and I knew what my day held.
First practice, new team, fresh start in a new city. The motel’s bedspread had a pattern that seemed designed to hide stains of unknown origin and I chose not to investigate.
I'd been there almost a week, waiting for dorms to open. Plenty of time to memorize every water stain on the ceiling and develop a complicated relationship with the vending machine down the hall.
Coach Marquette recruited me specifically. A scholarship, a way out of my old program which wasn’t bad, but opportunities here are better.
A way away from my mother.
She thought I was making a mistake, she usually does. But she also drove me to the airport and told me to call when I landed.
We're complicated like that—like her sending me to learn ice skating at the age of four, and years later trying to find me a ‘nice guy’ to settle down with because apparently my head got into the game a little too much.
Typical mother-daughter stuff. Not even worth mentioning.
Just like the endless guys she’s trying to set me up with.
I'm standing in the Lakeview University’s ice rink, trying to look like I belong here. The rink itself is beautiful. Cold and bright, the ice freshly resurfaced and gleaming under the fluorescent lights.
"Don't stretch there."
I look up to find a girl with wild curly hair pointing at the spot I'd been eyeing. She's got the kind of face that makes you want to trust her immediately—open, amused, slightly chaotic.
Tropes
- Enemies to Lovers
- Campus Romance
- LGBTQ+
- Power Couple
- Forced Proximity
- Opposites Attract
- Bully Love