Downloading Sucker Punch (Wrestling Girls #1)
I wanted to say,
I would rather have you for a little time
than no time at all.
I will remember you perfectly.
My memory will touch your skin, your lips.
The memory will hurt,
but it will be mine.
― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie
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Pam is happy. She's a professional wrestler, surrounded by friends and co-workers who adore her and a doting Mexican aunt who has been spoiling her since she was a child. She and her cousin Sean run their own wrestling club, the Beatcave, in Camden Town, and her life is basically perfect. Emphasis on basically.
Lea, known to the world as AJ Käss, is a world-wide famous influencer and journalist coming back to London after living in Los Angeles for the past couple of years. She's popular among her acquaintances in LA, but has always been a loner. Family business suddenly brought her back to England and she's already looking forward to going back to the California sun.
Their paths cross one night in the dim lights of the Beatcave, and that is all it takes for their stories to become their story.
OR
A bunch of queer disasters wrestling in London.
Tags & tropes: POC protagonists; meet cute; strangers to friends to lovers; slow burn; they don't know they're dating; idiots in love; plain girl/hot girl; romantic comedy