THE WAREHOUSE
Description
The Warehouse doesn't forgive.
It's a brutal, windowless facility where players are optimized like machines and referees enforce a system designed to break them. Leo Santos has three months to prove he belongs-or lose his spot forever. His knee is failing. His temper is a liability. But he refuses to quit.
Sloane Miller has spent six years inside the system. The blazer. The clipboard. The whistle. She keeps the Warehouse running so she doesn't have to ask what it's doing to her.
When a late-night practice session traps them in the empty building, the line between official and player dissolves. The scouts are watching. The cameras are always on. And the only thing more dangerous than the game is what happens when two people stop playing by the rules.
The Warehouse is the first book in a dark, propulsive literary thriller about surveillance, survival, and the cost of walking away.
Heat Level: 4/10 (Slow burn tension, one intimate scene in close quarters)