When Y/N transfers to Briar U, she doesn't expect to be instantly adopted by Allie and Hannah—and she definitely doesn't expect to fall for the hockey team's resident heartthrob, John Logan, after seeing his iconic on-ice archer pose. She's perfectly fine keeping her crush a secret, but a wild night out at a karaoke bar changes everything. Pushed onto the stage by her friends, Y/N catches Logan’s eye and sings Taylor Swift's "The Archer." Now, the boy who shoots arrows on the ice has his sights set directly on her.
To me, John Logan was entirely untouchable. He was a Briar University hockey legend, and despite sharing a couple of classes, I was convinced I wasn't even a blip on his radar. We were the definition of "friends but not friends"—knowing each other's faces but never crossing the line. Until the night the entire campus grid went black. With Hannah out in Boston with Garrett and Allie away with Dean, I’m left entirely alone in a pitch-dark dorm room. Panic sets in, and before I can stop myself, my thumb hovers over the one number I never thought I’d actually dial. I thought he wouldn't answer. I thought he wouldn't care. But when the lights go out, the rules change—and it turns out Logan has been noticing me all along.
Y/N's summer physical therapy internship at a deserted Briar U campus gets complicated when she catches the eye of star player John Logan. Terrified of his instant attraction, Logan hides behind a cold, strictly professional attitude. But when a sudden on-ice injury sidelines him, Y/N is assigned as his personal therapist. Forced into close daily contact in an empty arena, his icy walls completely melt—proving he wasn't keeping his distance because he didn't care, but because he wanted her too much.
Ninety years ago, Bucky Barnes left a piece of his heart on the Coney Island boardwalk, promising to return to the woman he loved. Days later, HYDRA took them both. While the Winter Soldier became a legend of shadows and blood, Y/N was kept in a different kind of silence—frozen, experimented on, and forgotten by time. When a desperate escape leaves Y/N wandering the overwhelming, neon-lit streets of modern-day New York, she is a living relic. She still looks exactly as she did the night Bucky proposed, but the world is no longer a place she recognizes. She thinks she’s alone, but a shadow is following her. Bucky Barnes has spent years trying to wash the red from his ledger, but he never expected to see the one person who reminds him of who he used to be. Too afraid to approach her and shatter her new-found freedom, he watches from the rooftops—protecting her from the HYDRA cells still hunting their "lost asset" and trying to find the courage to face the woman who still wears his ring on a chain around her neck.