All Nyra wanted was to get through the charity gala without a crisis.
What she got was six feet of Korean-American hockey player who'd been asking her out for months—and who just saved her event by improvising centerpieces when everything fell apart.
Worse? He wasn't just helpful. He was good at it. Suspiciously good.
Even worse? He's been secretly studying her entire profession. For months. Because of her.
Nyra Moss is a designer with a struggling studio, a flower shop landlady who slips cash under her door, and zero interest in becoming another athlete's quarter-life crisis experiment. She's been burned by charming creative types before. She doesn't need a twenty-two-year-old winger who thinks learning typography will impress her.
Sterling Matthews is a forward for the Hartford Hawks and he's been gone for the brilliant designer since he watched her arrange a centerpiece and thought: I want to know everything about what makes that work. Now his apartment looks like a design textbook exploded, his teammates think he's losing his mind, and he's waking up at 6 AM mentally categorizing morning light as "warm amber with cool blue undertones."
She has boundaries. He has dog-eared copies of Thinking with Type. Neither of them planned on improvised centerpieces, Christmas market kisses, or building a charity campaign that makes them Hartford's newest power couple.
He tells himself showing up for her work isn't falling in love.
It's definitely falling in love.
Somewhere between the mood boards and the partnership meetings, Sterling stops trying to impress Nyra and starts actually seeing her. And Nyra's starting to realize that maybe the persistent hockey player who learned her entire profession just to understand her world isn't like anyone she's dated before.
She's terrified he might be exactly what she needs.
This could cost her everything she's built—or become the greatest design of her life.
Genre: Romance
What she got was six feet of Korean-American hockey player who'd been asking her out for months—and who just saved her event by improvising centerpieces when everything fell apart.
Worse? He wasn't just helpful. He was good at it. Suspiciously good.
Even worse? He's been secretly studying her entire profession. For months. Because of her.
Nyra Moss is a designer with a struggling studio, a flower shop landlady who slips cash under her door, and zero interest in becoming another athlete's quarter-life crisis experiment. She's been burned by charming creative types before. She doesn't need a twenty-two-year-old winger who thinks learning typography will impress her.
Sterling Matthews is a forward for the Hartford Hawks and he's been gone for the brilliant designer since he watched her arrange a centerpiece and thought: I want to know everything about what makes that work. Now his apartment looks like a design textbook exploded, his teammates think he's losing his mind, and he's waking up at 6 AM mentally categorizing morning light as "warm amber with cool blue undertones."
She has boundaries. He has dog-eared copies of Thinking with Type. Neither of them planned on improvised centerpieces, Christmas market kisses, or building a charity campaign that makes them Hartford's newest power couple.
He tells himself showing up for her work isn't falling in love.
It's definitely falling in love.
Somewhere between the mood boards and the partnership meetings, Sterling stops trying to impress Nyra and starts actually seeing her. And Nyra's starting to realize that maybe the persistent hockey player who learned her entire profession just to understand her world isn't like anyone she's dated before.
She's terrified he might be exactly what she needs.
This could cost her everything she's built—or become the greatest design of her life.
Genre: Romance
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