Book 1 in the Fenton Falcon Series When Ella Gillard finds her high school sweetheart across the country and in bed with another girl during her freshman year, she makes a promise to herself to never date another hockey player--no matter how tempting it may be. Law school is complicated enough without the distraction of a relationship. But her plan proves to be difficult when she's met with the very persuasive goalie of the Fenton Falcons. Fenton University's hockey team is full of pre-game rituals, and their starting goaltender, Hendrix Tate, is as superstitious as they come. When the team's losing streak is broken after he finds Ella's bracelet minutes before a vital mid-season game, Hendrix is adamant on keeping his good luck charm around. Especially with his position being threatened by the team's new pickup. The question is will Ella break her promise to herself or shut him out? CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Copyright of Luisa Dituri © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD, RADISH AND REAM!

[actively editing] With her nose in books and his brawn getting him nowhere on or off the ice, they find themselves drawn together, sharing their baggage and learning what it might mean for each of them to love again. Jake Bryers is no stranger to the pressures of being a professional hockey player. It's something that he's dealt with consistently for the past fifteen years. Throughout his career, he's experienced it all-the electric thrill of winning divisions and conference titles, and even making it to the Stanley Cup Finals on more than one occasion. His dream was always to skate the cup at least once, but as he enters the late stage of his long, tumultuous career, he finds himself struggling to perform like he once had as a younger, inspired player. Harper Clark has been proficient at one thing throughout her life-constantly moving forward without really going anywhere. After having moved to the Big Apple to pursue a better life outside of the dangerous one she found herself leading in the Midwest, she finds herself stagnating after getting her degree from Columbia. She quietly enjoys her job at the public library, treading water while the undeniable feeling of discontent grows stronger within her. It's nothing short of fate when Jake and Harper happen to cross paths at the library, and though their lives couldn't be any more different, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another as they try to navigate mending each other's wounded hearts.

Marical Bacques fell apart. The star hockey player known for being personable, sly, and fun was suddenly deep into a therapist's office, taking anti-depressants and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Although he was no longer in the sin bin on the ice it feels like he is in life off the ice. During his recovery, his therapist recommends that he pick up a hobby outside of hockey, as he can only view himself as a hockey player after the emotional abuse of his father. In his pink eyeshadow and red hair, Dallas Smith is there to teach Marical how to paint. Somewhere along the way, while he's working on bettering himself, Marical finds himself being taught many other things by Dallas. In a time of his life when the ice is uneven, and everything feels like a punishment in the sin bin, Marical is learning how to love himself and others.

Logan Klicker, a backup goaltender in the NHL, is traded teams shortly after coming out as a rare gay professional athlete. Alone in a new city, in a new team, and trying to navigate being out, he meets his blunt neighbor, Kane Jenkins. Kane Jenkins usually doesn't filter himself, which he applies to his journalism. He has never been a sports guy, so having a professional hockey player as a neighbor is fun. After an incident involving a fat cat, enchiladas, and kindness, the two get close. Follow Logan and Kane as they develop themselves, their relationship, and a call out to the toxic culture of sports when it comes to queer players.

Alexander Sullivan had his heart shattered by Neo Bartosz for revenge. Still in love with Neo, Alexander has tried desperately to move on, starting a new relationship. When Neo comes back into his life after several months, both boys realize how much everything has changed. But the one thing that hasn’t changed is their feelings for each other, and the pain that comes along with those feelings.

Alexander Sullivan has money, looks, charisma, a cunning mind, and constant boredom. When feisty Neo Bartosz catches his attention, he decides to make Neo his next source of amusement. But Alexander is unaware of just how complex, stubborn, and perceptive Neo is. And Neo, out to avenge a friend Alexander had hurt in the past, finds his perfect chance for revenge as Alexander gets closer to him.

Rio Snyder believes in love- he just doesn't believe it fixes anything. It certainly didn't fix his drug addicted brother, or his heartbroken parents. Ezra Carelli is a happy-go-luck guy with secrets lurking just beyond his smile. When Rio and Ezra meet and began to grow closer, their anger and secrets began to collide. And the two will quickly come to learn that sometimes, all it takes is a tiny spark to ignite a burning flame.

A lot has changed since Kiri has left to go back home, and Asher finds himself struggling to move on. Tired of battling his demons he secludes himself from everyone else, promising to never let someone get that close again. Not finding peace at home, Kiri makes the sudden decision to come back and spend the summer with his dad - unaware that he is signing himself up for a lot more trouble than he has already been through. | Sequel to Misfits, not a stand-alone book |

Life is full of surprises - and not all of them are good. Kiri Yan has learned that the hard way when his parents announce their sudden divorce and that they need time for themselves, sending him off to live with his biological father for a year. What starts as a temporary solution to a permanent problem turns out to be one of the biggest challenges Kiri has ever faced: with his father being a depressed loner and his new school filled with competitive kids who like to cause trouble, he's quickly caught up in the small town's business. Left is right, up is down and good is bad when he discovers just how important one year can be. Highest ranking: #3 in lgbt

Everybody knew Paxton Flynn was gay. Nobody knew anything about Sebastian Crown. Everybody had a crush on Sebastian. Paxton, well he has had his moment. Paxton's the popular nerd. Sebastian's the loner Jock. Paxton finds it hard to stop talking. Sebastian's always quiet chewing on a bubblegum. When these two worlds collide for a chemistry assignment. There can either be A plus results or an F disaster. Either way, Chemistry is Chemistry. ©CriticallyIntense