After graduation, you moved away while Garrett stayed at Briar to focus on hockey. The two of you make long distance work with nightly FaceTimes, surprise care packages, and counting down the days until school breaks. But when the distance starts weighing on both of you, Garrett has no idea you’ve been secretly planning the ultimate surprise with his teammates. Seeing you in the stands at one of his games might just break the star hockey player’s heart…in the best way possible
John Logan needs a girlfriend. Or at least, someone convincing enough to stop his teammates and his sister from constantly setting him up. You need the money. A few fake dates, family dinners, and hockey games should be easy…until pretending starts to feel a little too real.
In a televised charity experiment known as Love On Ice, Briar University’s hockey team and a group of strangers enter a revolutionary dating show where connection begins without sight. Separated into private pods, they must form relationships built on voice, personality, and emotional honesty alone. Every conversation is broadcast to the world, raising money for children’s charities with each milestone reached. But as laughter, vulnerability, and late-night confessions blur the line between performance and something real, the question becomes unavoidable…how do you fall in love when you’ve never seen the person on the other side of the wall?
For years, John Tucker has been your best friend. The person you call when life gets hard, the voice you fall asleep listening to, and the first person you want to share good news with. After months of late-night phone calls and unspoken feelings, you buy a plane ticket to Briar and show up on his doorstep unannounced. The problem? Neither of you has ever admitted what you really mean to each other.