Second Position — Katherine Locke

Four years ago, a car accident ended Zedekiah Harrow's ballet career and sent Philadelphia Ballet principal dancer Alyona Miller spinning toward the breakdown that suspended her own. What they lost on the side of the road that day can never be replaced, and grief is always harshest under a spotlight…

Now twenty-three, Zed teaches music and theatre at a private school in Washington, D.C. and regularly attends AA meetings to keep the pain at bay. Aly has returned to D.C. to live with her mother while trying to recover from the mental and physical breakdown that forced her to take a leave of absence from the ballet world, and her adoring fans.

When Zed and Aly run into each other in a coffee shop, it's as if no time has passed at all. But without the buffer and escape of dance -- and with so much lust, anger and heartbreak hanging between them -- their renewed connection will either allow them to build the together they never had…or destroy the fragile recoveries they've only started to make.

Book One of the District Ballet Company

71,000 words