What happens when the one person you can't have... becomes the one you can't resist? --- I've lived my entire life under the spotlight. First, as the daughter and sister of hockey legends Joseph and T.J. Murphy. Then, as the youngest American in history to win Olympic gold in figure skating. Since forever, my world has been early mornings at the rink, medals, and a future I never thought I'd have to question. Until one fall at last year's World Championship ended my career... and destroyed every plan I had laid out in front of me. I came to Henley for a fresh start. I was going to be just Ollie. Your run-of-the-mill college student trying to figure things out. It was a solid plan... until Josh Jackson came skating into my life at full speed. Josh is quiet, intense, and impossible to figure out. The kind of guy who keeps everyone at arm's length, yet somehow still makes you want to get closer. Unfortunately for me, he's also my TA, chem tutor, and the one person I keep ending up skating with when the rink is empty every morning. Josh doesn't care about my last name. He doesn't treat me like I'm broken. And when he looks at me, I almost forget the girl I lost. The problem? This isn't allowed. If anyone finds out, Josh could lose everything. And no matter how badly I want him... I can't be the reason that happens. - A forbidden, grumpy x sunshine, slow-burn hockey romance - ****The Henley Boys is a set of standalone novels. Playing Offside is the third book in the series, but you can choose to read in any order!*****

Delancey Grey has never considered herself extraordinary. Despite her beauty, she's always blended quietly into the world, collecting crushes but never real love. That all changes the night of a junior-year party, when she meets Gage Ryan the wealthy, reckless golden boy who seems completely out of her reach. A year later, Delancey walks into a new version of herself, and suddenly the boy who never noticed her... can't look away. By senior year, what grows between them is more than a crush, more than a fling... but one choice, one secret, one moment, shatters everything. Their almost-love twists into miscommunication, unfinished feelings, and a tension neither can escape. Some love stories aren't about perfect timing. Some love stories linger. And some follow you for years, refusing to be forgotten. 🥇Popularboy

Serena never meant to notice him. She was only trying to help a friend find her crush. But somewhere between stolen glances, school events, Spanish lessons, and countless misunderstandings, one boy kept appearing in her thoughts. Kevin never paid much attention to Serena-until one incident made him believe she was secretly watching him. So he decided to look back. Sometimes, the best love stories don't begin with a confession. They begin with a glance.

Sadie's secretly in love with her best friend Connor. When the lights go off at a party, she kisses him in the dark. The next day, Connor enlists her help to find his mystery kisser. Sadie is stuck in the middle, will she ever be able to tell him how she feels?

Sterling Carter's life is built on control-perfect grades, perfect form, perfect trajectory straight to the Olympic volleyball team. At twenty-two, she's the star outside hitter at the University of Michigan and top of her class in dentistry, the golden product of an old-money family that only loves success. One game, one bad landing, and one opponent's foot hidden under the net is all it takes to blow it apart. With a torn ACL and PCL and a nine-to-twelve-month recovery, Sterling's dream is suddenly on life support. The scouts stop calling. Her parents pull away. For the first time in her life, there's no plan she can grind her way through, no version of "try harder" that will fix what's broken. Enter Maddox King-twenty-four, captain of Michigan's D1 hockey team, human freight train on the ice, and soft-hearted menace off it. He has everything Sterling doesn't: a loud, loving family, a stupidly loyal group of friends, and the unshakable belief that people are worth more than what they can do. When a twist of timing and one overinvested best friend pull Sterling into Maddox's orbit, he becomes the one person who refuses to treat her like she's ruined. As the season she was supposed to dominate turns into a year on the sideline, Sterling has to learn how to exist without the one thing that's always defined her-and decide whether letting Maddox in is one more risky play she can't afford... or the first choice she makes entirely for herself. Book #1 in the 'Carter' series

Fracture - Too close to stay Book 1 of the Fracture Series by Fiona Jule One night. No names. No promises. Just a mistake neither of us can forget. I didn't know he was my brother's best friend. He didn't know I was the sister he was never supposed to touch. Now we share an apartment, a secret, and rules we're already breaking.

She wears lipstick in the lab and high heels to class. He chases pucks on the ice and dreams across oceans. She's in Sweden. He's in Canada. But distance never dulled their love - it only made it sharper. Between video calls, hockey games, glitter pens, and science dreams, this is the story of how love grows, even an ocean apart. And trust us-this love is anything but ordinary.

Eighteen-year-old hockey prodigy Elliot Wexler has three goals for senior year. One: somehow graduate with a 3.5 GPA. Two: hide his bipolar disorder from his peers. And three: make it into the NHL with no scandals. Piece of cake. What he doesn't expect is to find Lucy, a homeless girl, hiding from the winter frost in his dad's shed. Elliot's busy, complicated life doesn't permit room for error, and falling in love with a girl from a totally different world sounds like the opposite of a good idea. But Elliot can't help but be drawn to Lucy and her elusive ways--even when she seems to vanish from his life non-stop, each time leaving him with a bigger hole in his heart. But Elliot is determined to break down Lucy's barriers. And when he does, he discovers that her life is more complicated--and dangerous--than he could have imagined. With drafting season approaching, and Elliot's fragile mental health deteriorating, he's forced to face a difficult question: Is first love supposed to hurt so much? *** PLEASE DO NOT ADD THIS STORY TO GOODREADS.

Sequel novella to You Are the Shell to My Tortoise ----- Nolan and Chelsea go through their first year in college as high school sweethearts, finding time to make their relationship work despite their conflicting class and sleep schedules. Having been together for over two years, they are closer and more comfortable around each other than ever. However, off-hand comments and remarks about their relationship bring to light the potential challenges they may have to face sooner than they had thought. Unbeknownst to Chelsea, while she attempts to hide her inner turmoil over the unknown future of their relationship, Nolan is forced to battle the surfacing fears he has been ignoring over the past two years. Out of the sight, out of mind doesn't work anymore when you can't rip your eyes away from it. ----- Complete. (first person, past tense)

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