When star hockey player Macklin Celebrini accidentally confesses having a longtime celebrity crush on rising pop star Samira Valance, the internet loses its mind. The video went viral, reaching millions of views. Everyone seemed to know about it. Everyone except Samira herself. Burned out by fame and pressure, Samira finds herself trying to find a way to get rid of her writer's block with peace. The singer decided to start a road trip to San Jose. Hoping to finally get the inspiration she needed to write the second album that her label was so desperate about. However, she finds herself standing outside a certain hockey player's front door. Begging him, for the love of God, to turn the music down. -

It was just a dream. Until it wasn't. When a private joke goes viral, Katerina Lowes finds herself at the center of a scandal involving one of the NHL's most private players. Now she has to face the consequences of something she never meant to become public. He doesn't yell. He doesn't accuse. He just shows up. And sometimes that's worse.

When Lila Brooks starts working for NHL Media at eighteen years old, she thinks she's beginning a career. Instead, she's collecting memories. Some are big. Most aren't. A birthday surprise from people she didn't know cared. A phone call after a bad day. A seat saved on a plane. A nickname that somehow sticks. The kind of moments that seem ordinary while they're happening and become the ones you hold onto years later. Through changing seasons, growing careers, and a team that slowly becomes something much more than coworkers, Lila learns that home isn't always where you start. Sometimes it's who you find along the way.

Four years ago, Juliette Bennett walked away from Mason Brooks, the golden boy of college hockey and the only person she ever truly let in, and never looked back. She rebuilt her life in silence, burying heartbreak under long nights, hospital shifts, and the one secret she swore would never see the light again: her daughter, Maisey. Mason Brooks has spent years becoming everything he was supposed to be, star forward, team leader, the future of professional hockey, without knowing the biggest piece of his life was already missing. When fate drags Juliette back into his world, the past doesn't stay buried for long. Old sparks don't just flicker, they ignite. And the truth doesn't just hurt... it changes everything. Now there's a four-year-old girl with Mason's eyes, a love that never really died, and a history built on a misunderstanding neither of them knew they were living in. Juliette wants to protect the life she fought so hard to build. Mason refuses to walk away from the one thing he never knew he had. And when a daughter becomes the center of everything between them, one question remains- Do you forgive the past... or does it destroy the future you never got to live?

Macklin Celebrini goes to Boston with his best friend Will Smith. There, he meets someone who will change his life for the summer.. or forever.

Macklin Celebrini is an attention-hating, humble hockey player who carries the weight of the future of the NHL on his shoulders. Miley Carter is a billionaire with the weight of her self-made company on her shoulders. A simple brand ambassadorship quickly blurs into a complicated charade, forcing them to cross the line between a carefully staged public relationship and very real, private emotions.

After a terrible fall semester, Alahna Beaudette returns to campus for her final semester at San Jose State University. With a marketing internship with the NHL San Jose Sharks, she has no idea she is about to become the most talked about woman in the NHL.

Story Description Milena Crosby spent years building herself into someone untouchable. Olympic-bound figure skater. Daughter of hockey legend Sidney Crosby. Cold, composed, impossible to read. The media thinks her life is perfect - fame, money, talent handed to her before she could even skate. They're wrong. Will Smith has spent just as many years deciding exactly who Milena is without ever trying to know her. Arrogant, sarcastic, and annoyingly talented, the young Will Smith forward treats every interaction between them like a battle he refuses to lose. From the moment they met, they hated each other. Or at least that's what they tell themselves. Every season becomes the same routine: sharp comments across arenas, heated arguments in family suites, lingering stares neither of them can explain. But beneath the rivalry, both of them are hiding things nobody else sees - pressure, loneliness, expectations, and the kind of childhood wounds that never fully disappear. When Milena's skating career explodes after a history-making performance on the international stage, Will starts realizing the girl he judged for years is nothing like he imagined. And Milena begins to understand that sometimes the people who see through you the easiest are the ones you fight the hardest to push away. Set between NHL arenas, international skating competitions, and cities that feel too cold to hold secrets, Edges of Hate is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story about ambition, grief, family, and two people learning that surviving isn't the same thing as healing.

❝ 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫. ❞ ❝ 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬, 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. ❞ ❝ 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.❞ જ⁀➴ ┆In which, from childhood, will Smith and Noelle Weasley were inseparable. She was his anchor, watching him dominate the ice; he, captivated by her boundless empathy. Their bond deepened into a simmering attraction, expressed in lingering hugs and late-night confessions that ended tangled in bed. But Noelle yearned for more than just undefined casualty. She craved commitment, a future. Will, however, remained emotionally unavailable, seemingly incapable of understanding vulnerability or the sting of loss. He vanished after the hockey draft, leaving Noelle heartbroken and determined to build a life without him. But what happens he returns a fourth time, seeing Noelle with someone else, some close to home. What will Noelle do when she sees him up close. Will it become a never ending cycle again?

the invisible string theory is the belief that two souls are connected by a thread that can stretch or tangle, but never break. It's the magnetic pull that makes every detour feel temporary, because you are always, inevitably, being led back to each other Bella and Will have known each other for what feels like their whole lives. What happens when they end up at Boston College together after 2 years of being caught up in their busy lives? Book 1. 47 chapters (w.c. 100k)