She runs the cheer squad like a general—sharp tongue, sharper wit, and zero tolerance for anyone who thinks being captain of the hockey team makes them untouchable. As senior year hits its breaking point, the last thing she needs is him: the school’s golden boy hockey captain—smug, rude, devastatingly charming, and notorious for leaving a trail of broken hearts from the locker room to the parking lot. He’s everything she hates… and somehow everything that keeps pulling her in.
Y/N built her life on observation, not participation. As a sports journalism major, she knows how to stay behind the scenes—asking the sharp questions, catching the quiet details, never becoming the story herself. On weekends, she lives a second life no one on campus knows about: coaching a ragtag group of six-year-old hockey players who can barely skate straight, let alone shoot. It’s the one place she feels grounded. It’s also the one secret that could destroy her carefully curated distance from the chaos of college hockey.
Senior year at North Ridge High is supposed to be about traditions, titles, and surviving until graduation—not about falling into a war of wills with the one boy Y/N can’t stand.