Y/N and John Logan were inseparable from childhood until one painful decision shattered everything. Three years later, Y/N transfers to Briar and discovers the boy she never stopped loving is now a guarded, commitment-free hockey star who wants nothing to do with her. Forced back into the same friend group, old habits, jealousy, and buried feelings refuse to stay dead. Y/N wants to prove she has changed. Logan wants to protect what is left of his heart. Neither is prepared for how impossible it is to stop loving someone who once felt like home.
John Tucker has always been Y/N’s best friend—her neighbor, her safe place, and the boy who left for Briar with feelings he never confessed. Two years later, she finally transfers to Briar, and slipping back into their old closeness is easy. Ignoring how different every touch feels now isn’t. Best friends were safe. Wanting each other isn’t.
A flooded dorm leaves Y/N with one option: six weeks in Briar’s infamous hockey house. She expects noise, chaos, and way too many shirtless hockey players. She doesn’t expect Tucker—or how quickly late-night dinners, stolen sweatshirts, and shared routines start feeling dangerously like something more. The problem? Her room is only temporary. Falling for her roommate wasn’t supposed to be.
Y/N only went to the hockey house party to prove she wasn’t as fragile as everyone thought. Kissing Dean Di Laurentis—the biggest playboy at Briar—was supposed to be one reckless decision she’d never repeat. Then she meets Hannah Wells, gets pulled into the hockey team’s orbit, and finds herself face-to-face with Dean again. Now Dean knows her name, Y/N wants nothing to do with his reputation, and neither of them is prepared for the secret friendship that slowly becomes something much harder to hide. He falls first. He falls harder. And for the first time in Dean’s life, getting the girl means earning enough trust for her to choose him.
Garrett Graham’s sister has always been off-limits. At least, that’s what Logan tells himself when she transfers to Briar, moves into the hockey house, and suddenly becomes impossible to ignore. She’s smart, stubborn, gorgeous—and way more than just his best friend’s little sister. One almost-kiss turns into a secret neither of them is supposed to keep. Because sneaking into each other’s rooms is one thing. Figuring out what happens when Garrett finds out is another. Best friend’s sister. Secret romance. One very broken rule.
Elite figure skater Y/N has one goal: make it to the Olympics. Garrett Graham has one goal too—the NHL. Forced to share the ice, they clash instantly. But after a breakup leaves Y/N doubting herself, Garrett becomes the safe person she never expected. What starts as private “lessons” and fake dating turns dangerously real when broken rules, jealousy, and late-night practices blur the line between pretending and falling in love just one more time.
At twenty-nine, {Y/N} is starting to wonder if she’s been playing life too safe. After an ex moves on suspiciously fast, she creates a bucket list meant to push her outside her routines, take more risks, and finally figure out what she actually wants. There’s only one person she trusts enough to help her do it: Bennett Keating, her best friend’s twin brother, oldest friend, and safest person in the world. What {Y/N} doesn’t know is that Bennett has been in love with her for years. And somewhere between crossed-off list items, hidden artwork, flirting lessons, kisses that stop feeling like practice, and boundaries that begin to blur, {Y/N} starts to realize that maybe life was never about getting everything right. Maybe it was always more about the art of trying.
Y/N is used to being the smartest person in the room. Then Dean Di Laurentis beats her by two points. What starts as an academic rivalry turns into late-night study sessions, constant arguments, and a semester-long project neither of them can afford to screw up. But somewhere between competition, chemistry, and one very dangerous kiss, they might be breaking more than the curve.
Y/N only needs one great story to help launch her journalism career. Unfortunately, that story is Garrett Graham. He’s Briar’s cocky hockey captain, her most frustrating interview, and very good at avoiding every question that actually matters. She’s supposed to uncover the man behind the headlines—not fall for him. But somewhere between arguments, off-the-record confessions, and one very unprofessional kiss, the biggest story of her career becomes the one she might not be willing to tell.
