It started with a dare. It ended with a departure gate. The deal was simple. Fake the romance. Keep it professional. Walk away clean.
Nobody said anything about catching feelings.
He is the loudest player on the ice and the last man she should have kissed at a house party at two in the morning. But the dare happened. The photo happened. And now the whole campus thinks they're together.
She is a nursing student with a crumbling GPA, a mother who just subpoenaed her own daughter, and a reputation she can't afford to lose. He is a hockey player on a borrowed year, hiding failed courses and a lie he told his mother about a girlfriend who doesn't exist.
He falls first. He falls loud. He falls the way he does everything, without a backup plan and without apology.
She falls slower. She falls like a woman who knows this is the worst possible idea and chooses it anyway.
But when a professional hockey contract arrives with his name on it, he has to choose: the dream he's chased his entire life, or the woman he didn't know he needed until she was already his.
THE TROPES YOU CAME FOR:
◇ Fake Dating
◇ Only One Bed
◇ He Falls First (and keeps falling)
��� Opposites Attract
◇ Mutual pining
◇ Grumpy Heroine / Sunshine Hero
◇ Forced Proximity
◇ Compete for the Championship
◇ Hurt/Comfort
◇ Found Family
◇ No Slow Burn - Fast Burn - Very Fast Burn
◇ "Touch her and die" energy
◇ Grand Gesture
◇ Happily Ever After
Cold Case is a spicy, full-length fake dating college hockey romance with opposites attract chemistry, a hero who refuses to give up, and a happily ever after that earns every page.
Book 2 in the Cold-Blooded series. Can be read as a standalone.
Perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Peyton Corinne, and Kandi Steiner.
NB: The couple from Cold War makes appearances throughout. You do not need to read Book 1 first, but you will want to.
Genre: New Adult Romance
Nobody said anything about catching feelings.
He is the loudest player on the ice and the last man she should have kissed at a house party at two in the morning. But the dare happened. The photo happened. And now the whole campus thinks they're together.
She is a nursing student with a crumbling GPA, a mother who just subpoenaed her own daughter, and a reputation she can't afford to lose. He is a hockey player on a borrowed year, hiding failed courses and a lie he told his mother about a girlfriend who doesn't exist.
He falls first. He falls loud. He falls the way he does everything, without a backup plan and without apology.
She falls slower. She falls like a woman who knows this is the worst possible idea and chooses it anyway.
But when a professional hockey contract arrives with his name on it, he has to choose: the dream he's chased his entire life, or the woman he didn't know he needed until she was already his.
THE TROPES YOU CAME FOR:
◇ Fake Dating
◇ Only One Bed
◇ He Falls First (and keeps falling)
��� Opposites Attract
◇ Mutual pining
◇ Grumpy Heroine / Sunshine Hero
◇ Forced Proximity
◇ Compete for the Championship
◇ Hurt/Comfort
◇ Found Family
◇ No Slow Burn - Fast Burn - Very Fast Burn
◇ "Touch her and die" energy
◇ Grand Gesture
◇ Happily Ever After
Cold Case is a spicy, full-length fake dating college hockey romance with opposites attract chemistry, a hero who refuses to give up, and a happily ever after that earns every page.
Book 2 in the Cold-Blooded series. Can be read as a standalone.
Perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Peyton Corinne, and Kandi Steiner.
NB: The couple from Cold War makes appearances throughout. You do not need to read Book 1 first, but you will want to.
Genre: New Adult Romance
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