The plan has always been simple. Finish college and open my own bakery while supporting my best friend in his journey to the NHL. After a not-so-good experience last year, I've been avoiding most of the hockey team. That is until I finally met their newest teammate whose green eyes have been stuck in my brain ever since. Did I mention he's also my best friend's roommate?

Sugar's addicting. So is she. Graham Davis has two addictions: Hockey-and Gracie Daniels. (Not that he knows it yet.) At St. Brown University, Gracie Daniels is the golden girl. Blonde ponytail, perfect smile, always saying yes. So when she's asked to manage PR for the hockey team, she agrees-hoping to help thaw their notoriously icy captain. But Graham Davis doesn't melt. He's distant, guarded, and doesn't need help from a pink-sweater-wearing perfectionist... until he starts noticing things he shouldn't. Skipped meals. Covered bruises. Flinches too small to be accidental. Gracie is sweet, bright, and hiding more than anyone knows. And Graham can't stop looking.

Sebastian Reed has everything he ever wanted: dream career, dream lifestyle, dream girl. For the last year, his life has taken the best turn. Sebastian has been living the life he wanted all along. Until he wasn't. Because he didn't have the dream girl anymore. Sebastian Reed left home with his dream girl at home, only to come home to be greeted with a breakup. Bash has been in love with a girl since the age of sixteen, and after eight years, he imagined he would marry her. Do not be broken up with her. He has been with Hannah Nelson for a long time, and of course they have broken up a few times. But not like this. Not when it seems so serious. Bash's life had turned upside down, his girl had shown up with a date. Bash is thrown off by it, and when he interacts with the girl, she sees right through him. Not wanting to accept pity from the girl he has loved for 8 years, he blurts out a lie. A lie that could only change everything in his life. Jennifer Kinley has been friends with her best friend, Andrea Brennan, for the last 5 years, and since then, she has been acquainted with people she wouldn't have expected to meet. Now, a full year later, she hasn't thought the first time she would speak to the best friend of Andrea's future husband would be to be roped into a deal. A deal that requires lies. A deal that starts off with, "Can you please be my girlfriend for the next few months?" Jen was shocked, but even then she she couldn't seem to throw the chance away. Not when she had things she had been trying to bury. This could be her ticket to redemption. Fake dating wasn't supposed to be on the table, but it is now. For the next few months, after the wedding of Miles Alvarez and Andrea Brennan, the two need to show Hannah that Bash is over her. But as time goes on, Bash will need to make a decision. Whether he is working on this deal to get over his ex-girlfriend or a ploy to get her back? Will his first love ever be something he can give up?

Sloan DiLaurentis didn't mean to find a home in Briar's hockey house. But somewhere between the midnight kitchen conversations, shared hoodies, and Beau Maxwell showing up at her door every night asking to cuddle, the house-and the people inside it-started feeling like hers. Beau was never supposed to be more than harmless flirting. Except now he knows her coffee order, sleeps better beside her, and looks at her like she's his favorite thing in the world. And Sloan's starting to realize she might feel the same way. Too bad keeping secrets in a house full of hockey players is almost impossible. Especially when everyone already knows they're in love. Everyone except Dean.

After a traumatic incident forces Avery Quinn to leave her job at a major airline, she takes a position with a private charter company hoping for something simple: quiet, routine, and a chance to feel safe again. She doesn't know anything about hockey, and she definitely doesn't expect to become a familiar face aboard the Chicago Blackhawks team plane. But somewhere between late-night flights and quiet conversations at 30,000 feet, Avery and Connor Bedard slowly become each other's safest place-right before the rest of the world starts paying attention.

Quinn Hughes has the world watching him and no one actually seeing him. New captain of the Vancouver Canucks. Golden boy on the surface. But behind the press conferences and perfectly tailored suits is a man unraveling slowly, quietly. The kind of man who smiles like it hurts and doesn't let anyone close enough to see. Until her. She barely remember the night. But he's spent every night since remembering only her. Michigan. A country festival. She walked wearing denim shorts and a don't-fuck-with-me smile, smelling spicy. She didn't give him her name. She barely gave him a second look. But Quinn? He's been building fantasies around her ever since. All-consuming ones. Elizabeth Woods. Pediatric intern. Raised in the shadows of a mother who loved like a loaded gun. She's gentle in a way that feels dangerous, like she's trying to undo years of damage with one soft look and steady hands. She's the kind of woman who tucks blankets around strangers but doesn't flinch when someone screams. She's standing across from him, stunned, breathless, just as fucking shocked. Because this city's too big. Too full. And still, somehow they found each other again. She thought he was a bartender. A finance guy. A pretty face with a sharp jaw and nothing behind the eyes. She had no idea he was him. The name on every screen. The jersey hanging in every bar. And now he's in her orbit again, asking questions with his eyes, tugging at threads she's spent years trying to stitch shut. She carries her past like a diagnosis, incurable. And Quinn sees her. He wants her in a way that has nothing to do with love. This is concussion-level craving. A full-body, penalty-box, scream-into-the-wall obsession. She's the one thing that makes him forget the rules. But the closer he gets, the more the past starts bleeding into the present. She's not just a girl he can't forget. She's the trigger to everything he's spent years burying. "You don't even remember me." "Bullshit. You ruined me."

*COMPLETED* Ravenna Blackwood is the personification of chaos. She's loud, she's funny, she's reckless and Reed Hawthorne's last straw of restraint. Known as "The Hawk" for his watchful intensity, he has spent years guarding his heart against the one person he's forbidden to touch. But when a disaster forces Ravenna into his home, the distance between them collapses into a dangerous game of pining and provocation. And, as if that wasn't messy enough, her family threatens to marry her off to a stranger. Reed offers the ultimate escape: a contract, a ring, and a vow. Now, they're playing "husband and wife" in a house built on secrets and silent obsessions. In a world where every touch is a transgression, the most dangerous lies are the ones they tell themselves. He's watching her every move. She's waiting for him to break. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #5 IN LOVERS

You never asked for the roses. You never wanted the diamonds. And yet somehow, Luke Hughes gives you everything you've ever needed without even trying. When you move to Michigan for graduate school, crashing at your cousin's lake house before classes begin, the last thing you expect is Luke Hughes-NHL defenseman, golden boy, and Quinn's little brother-watering plants barefoot in the morning sun. You're drawn to him, not for his name, not for the spotlight, but for the way he remembers your coffee order, brings you wildflowers from the trail, and never forgets your favorite record. This is not a story about grand gestures. It's a story about the kind of love that lives in the silence- in the quiet mornings, the homemade pasta, the wind-chime laughter, and the smaller acts that change everything. But with his season looming and your past chasing you down, you'll both have to decide if the softest kind of love can survive the loudest parts of life.

What happens when the guy you can't stand becomes the solution to all your problems? --- Xavier Cole is a man-whore. A womanizer. A complete player. And on most days? A walking red flag. Unfortunately for me, he's also charming, reckless, and very publicly unattached. The kind of guy no one would ever question suddenly having a girlfriend... and the last person anyone would expect to be faking it. Which makes him the perfect solution when my ex shows back up in town, convinced he deserves a second chance. I didn't mean to kiss Xavier at the annual hockey team New Year's Eve party. I really didn't! But it happened. And now everyone thinks we're dating. That he's my boyfriend. Which might be my fault too... because I may have told people we were together. And he might be going along with it. The problem? Xavier Cole and I don't flirt... we spar. And apparently, we're supposed to be convincing as a couple. Which means we're going to have to make this work. Because if our cover gets blown, I'm screwed. - A fake dating, enemies-to-lovers hockey romance at Henley University - ****The Henley Boys is a set of standalone novels. Against the Boards is the second book in the series, but you can choose to read in any order!*****

Reid Blackwell is the perfect stereotypical Ice Hockey player: cocky, always wears his hat backwards, and is in love with the idea of himself. He is the reckless bad boy every puck bunny dreams of calling their own, but when his future with the NHL is looming over his head, his team step in to save him from himself. Emiliana Beckett, raised by her famous, World Champion MOTOGP racer brother, is an ambitious law student who has to spend her year abroad working for the University of Michigan's Ice Hockey team, specifically, their star goalie-Reid Blackwell. To make matters worse, she is forced to live mere inches apart from him in the hockey house. She hides her body dysmorphia behind academic perfection, he hides his pressure and pain behind charm and chaos. What will happen when they are forced to find a way to understand one another?