Graysen Miller is spending the summer home from college with her best friend, Macklin Celebrini, and his hockey friends in Michigan. Falling for Will Smith was a terrible idea. Keeping it a secret is even worse. Dear God.

She was music's newest obsession: the bold voice behind Miss Possessive, the heartbreak anthem of the year. A pop powerhouse with glitter in her lyrics and venom in her smile, she had the industry wrapped around her finger-and a string of famous exes trailing in her wake. He was the NHL's golden boy: Cole Caufield, fast on the ice and faster with a smile. Charming. Determined. Impossible to ignore. When asked about his celebrity crush during a locker room interview, he didn't hesitate. He said her name. Now, the pop world and hockey fandoms collide when a viral clip brings them face to face. She thinks he's just another guy looking to ride the wave of her fame. He thinks she's everything no one else has taken the time to understand. She's used to writing songs about boys who break her heart. He wants to be the one who never gives her a reason to. But when your entire life is on stage, and your exes are all chart-toppers, falling for someone new isn't just risky-it's headline-worthy. He called her his crush. She wrote a song about it. Now the game's on.

elaine evans is twenty years old, a once-in-a-generation voice, and the newest name etched into grammy history. macklin celebrini is hockey's golden boy, built from discipline, pressure, and the kind of focus that never cracks on the ice. they come from worlds that aren't supposed to overlap-until one night in los angeles, surrounded by flashing cameras, expensive champagne, and people who only know how to be famous, they find each other in the quiet spaces between it all. she doesn't want to be another headline. he doesn't know how to want something that isn't hockey. and neither of them expects a connection that feels like music-soft at first, then impossible to ignore.

Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

❛❛ live now, think later, i do it so well❜❜ ✮♪🎤 🏒

STELLA JEAN was a natural born figure skater. She would skate for hours without a worry in the world. And that, she destined would be her future. JACK HUGHES could handle a puck since he was born, the rink calling his name at all hours of the day. Hockey, hockey, and hockey were the only things that mattered to him. His reputation digs deep, known for having the puck bunnies chase after, even driving hours just to attend one of his games: When Stella is caught between Jack Hughes and his friend, Matt Boldy, will he do everything to prove he is the right choice?

When Natalie Brockman leaves her quiet Southern hometown for the bustling streets of Newark, New Jersey, she's ready for a fresh start and the challenges of Law School at Seton Hall. She is determined and prepared for the demands of criminal law and life in a new city. What she's not prepared for is the enigmatic neighbor next door. Nico Hischier seems polite but distant, a man of few words with a quiet intensity that only piques Natalie's curiosity. She doesn't know that Nico isn't just any neighbor- he's the captain of the New Jersey Devils, trying to balance the weight of leadership, public scrutiny, and his own private struggles. As their lives slowly begin to intertwine, Natalie discovers there's more to Nico than his guarded exterior. But will the secrets he keeps and the pressures he faces keep them apart, or can they find common ground in the most unexpected of places?

Sloane Bennett has been chasing gold since she was sixteen. A silver medal at her first Olympics nearly broke her. A gold at twenty proved she belonged. Now, at twenty-four, the New York Sirens superstar returns to the Olympic stage for the third time-stronger, sharper, and no longer the prodigy people whisper about. She's inevitable. Across the ice, so is he. Jack Hughes has spent his entire life under a spotlight-first overall pick, franchise cornerstone, the golden child of American hockey. But there's only one person who has ever matched him stride for stride. Only one who never looked impressed. Only one who stripped him clean at eleven years old and grinned when he asked for again. Now, for the first time, they wear the same flag. With both Bennett siblings and two Hughes brothers anchoring Team USA, the Olympics become more than a tournament. They become collision. History. Proximity neither of them is prepared for. Between shared family sections, late-night Village conversations, bruised ribs, and unbearable tension that stretches across two gold medal games, longing that began in childhood finally demands to be acknowledged. But gold doesn't make life simple. When the Games end, reality waits: • Media frenzy. • Headlines that write themselves. • Separate leagues. • Separate cities. • Careers that don't slow down for love. And for two people who have spent their lives chasing greatness, the question isn't whether they can win. It's whether they can choose each other without losing themselves. Because some rivalries are built on competition. And some love stories are built on the same word that started everything: Again.

You've known Luke Hughes since middle school - back when his hair was too long, his braces gleamed under cafeteria lights, and he was all gangly limbs and awkward laughter. He was just "Jack's little brother" or "that tall kid in your math class." But years pass, and when you bump into him again - older, broader, with that same boyish grin now paired with an NHL jersey and six-foot-two frame - you're floored. You don't remember him looking like this. And suddenly, you can't stop looking. What starts as a shocked double take spirals into something much riskier: flirty banter, the kind of tension that builds in stolen glances, and late-night confessions that you should've seen coming years ago. Luke's not the kid you remember. He's a man who knows what - and who - he wants. And it turns out what he wants... is you.