Y/n is determined to prove herself as a serious journalist, and covering Blackwood University’s hockey team is supposed to be her big break. But working alongside Ethan Hayes - the teams captain, campus favorite, and the most frustrating person she’s ever met - quickly turns the semester into a disaster. After a past media scandal destroyed Ethan’s trust in reporters, he makes it very clear that he wants nothing to do with y/n. Unfortunately for both of them, late-night interviews, away games, and chaotic hockey house parties keep throwing them together. The more they clash, the harder it becomes to ignore the tension building between them. Because somewhere between arguments, jealousy, and lingering stares, hatred starts feeling dangerously close to something else.
Y/n has one rule: stay focused. Between early mornings on the ice and the pressure of chasing something bigger then herself, she doesn’t have time for distractions-especially not the kind that come with complicated feelings and even worse timing. Logan Pierce doesn’t do distractions either. As captain of Ridgeway University’s hockey team, his life is built on discipline, control, and not giving anyone a reason to question him. He keeps things simple. Structured. Predictable. They were never supposed to get involved. But between shared spaces, late nights, and moments that last just a second too long, distance becomes harder to maintain- and walking away isn’t as easy as it should be. Because the problem isn’t just that this could ruin everything. It’s that neither of them is sure they want it to stop.
One viral photo. One fake relationship. One hockey player she can’t stand. After a photo of volleyball star Y/N and hockey captain Easton Sullivan leaving a party together sends campus into a frenzy, the university’s publicity team gives them one solution: pretend to date. Six weeks of staged dates, game appearances, social media posts, and convincing the world they’re in love. Easy enough—except they’ve been enemies for years. But between jealous teammates, an ex-girlfriend, an overly friendly baseball player, and an anonymous account determined to expose them, their fake relationship starts feeling dangerously real. They agreed to fake it for the cameras. They never expected to fall for each other when no one was watching.
He needed a tutor. She needed a fake boyfriend. Neither of them expected to fall in love. Y/N has spent years learning how to live with her past, keeping her walls high and her heart carefully guarded. At Briar University, she’s focused on her music, her future, and taking life one day at a time. Then there’s Garrett Graham—Briar’s hockey captain, campus heartthrob, and the last person Y/N wants complicating her life. When Garrett’s failing grade threatens his hockey career, he makes Y/N an offer she can’t ignore. She’ll tutor him, and in return, he’ll help her win over her longtime crush, football star Justin Kohl. Simple enough. Until Garrett and Y/N decide that pretending to date might be the perfect way to make Justin jealous. Suddenly, fake dates become late-night study sessions. Fake kisses become something neither of them wants to stop. And the lines between pretend and real start disappearing. But Garrett isn’t the only one falling for Y/N. His best friend, John Logan, finds himself secretly pining for the girl he believes he can never have. And Y/N? She’s beginning to wonder if the guy she thought she wanted was never the one she was meant to fall for. Between hockey games, college parties, complicated friendships, buried trauma, and a relationship that was never supposed to be real, Y/N and Garrett are about to discover that sometimes the biggest risk isn’t falling in love. It’s letting someone close enough to see all the parts of you you’ve spent years hiding. It was supposed to be a deal. It was never supposed to be love.
When your parents move overseas, you’re forced to leave your life behind and spend your freshman year living with your Aunt Claire in Stars Hollow, Connecticut—a town where privacy doesn’t exist, coffee is considered a necessity, and everyone somehow knows your name before you’ve introduced yourself. You tell yourself it’s temporary. Just one year. Then you’ll leave. At least, that was the plan. Between movie nights with Lorelai and Rory, music-filled afternoons with Lane, endless coffee runs to Luke’s Diner, and a town that slowly starts to feel like home, Stars Hollow becomes harder to leave than you ever imagined. Especially after meeting Ethan Hart. The quiet bookstore employee with messy hair, sharp wit, and enough secrets to fill every shelf in Hart’s Books. Neither of you are looking for anything serious. Neither of you are interested in getting attached. But somewhere between late-night conversations, stolen glances across crowded rooms, and the feeling of being understood for the first time, everything begins to change. Maybe some people are only meant to be temporary. And maybe some people feel like autumn—warm, familiar, and impossible to forget.
Y/n moved to New York for a fresh start—not to become the girl who keeps crossing paths with Spider-Man. After a chance encounter on a rainy night, her life is anything but ordinary. The city’s masked hero seems to appear everywhere she goes, always disappearing before she can ask the questions she’s desperate to have answered. Meanwhile, Peter Parker is doing everything he can to keep his double life a secret from the people he cares about, especially the girl he’s slowly falling for. As villains close in and feelings grow stronger, Peter must decide if protecting Y/n means keeping her at a distance—or trusting her with the truth behind the mask. Because in New York, every secret comes with a price.
Y/n thought she had left Hudson Miller behind until she returned to Manchester University and found herself working alongside the boy who once owned her heart. Now she’s forced to capture every moment of the hockey captain she never truly forgot. Because some people aren’t just a chapter in your life—they’re the whole story.
