UNDER CONSTRUCTION hockey player x. actress

~libby toffoli has spent most of her life being watched. watched by doctors, teachers, nutritionists, and strangers trying to figure out why she never seems hungry. born with a rare condition that leaves her without the feeling of hunger, libby grew up in and out of hospitals and treatment centers while the rest of the world assumed they already understood her story. by eighteen, she's exhausted of being "the sick girl." so when she moves to san jose to live with her older brother, tyler toffoli, she decides this is her chance to start over. new city, new people, new life. no treatment center schedules. no school counselors watching her every move. just hockey, ocean air, and the freedom to finally figure out who she is outside of her illness. then she meets macklin celebrini. quietly intense, frustratingly observant, and impossible to ignore, mack sees through her faster than anyone ever has - and that terrifies her more than it should. because liking someone means letting them close enough to leave. and libby already knows how these stories end. but between late nights, growing feelings, and a future she's never allowed herself to imagine, libby starts to wonder if surviving is the same thing as living. and for the first time in her life, she might actually want more.

When Jade got a new job at Boston college for the men's hockey team, she was planning on getting paid and going home. But what she didn't plan on, was falling in love with the captain. THE Will Smith.

Ivy Reynolds has her life mapped out-college, future career, and a boyfriend she's been with long enough to feel safe. Then Will Smith walks into her world stealing her coffee, flashing a goofy smile, and somehow making her forget the rules she's always followed. He doesn't know she has a boyfriend. She doesn't know he's an NHL player. What starts as accidental encounters and awkward flirting slowly becomes something neither of them expected. But some mistakes are harder to walk away from than others...

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.

Logan Romano didn't just enter the NHL. He tore through it. Dark. Brooding. Untouchable. With brutal talent and a reputation as cold as the New York winter, Logan dominates both the ice and every room he walks into. He doesn't lose. He doesn't bend. And he certainly doesn't fall in love. Not after the last time. Not until November Levine crashes into his life like a beam of sunlight he never asked for. She's warmth where he's storm clouds. She's soft where he's jagged edges. A walking contradiction to everything Logan swore he needed. When a deal forces the polar opposites under one roof, tensions ignite fast. Teasing turns to feuds. Feuds turn into something dangerously close to desire. And Logan is forced to confront the one promise he's never broken. Because once you step into the light- it's impossible to return. ✩ Grumpy x sunshine • forced proximity • slow burn Will the hockey captain cross that line? ✩ "Nova." I whisper, my voice low and hoarse against her neck. "Stop it." "Stop what." She whimpers back innocently as her thighs tighten around my hips. My teeth nip at the skin on her jaw in warning. "Either stop teasing, or put me out of my fucking misery." November pulls her head back from mine, resting it against the wall, and bats her lashes up at me. "Say please."

Resilience (adj): the ability to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened Elizah has always been quiet, watching the world from the sidelines. But she had always been friends with Aiden, for as long as she can remember, he has always been the boy next door and her best friend. He held secrets she wouldn't tell a soul and with those secrets he also held her heart. Sophomore year of high school changed everything, Aiden became popular, became the hockey captain. Elizah however remained the quiet girl she's always been. With popularity comes status, suddenly Aiden was packing and heading to build himself a hockey career. Elizah found herself losing the one person she thought she'd always have. Fast forward three years, Elizah got accepted into Boston university to study the one thing shes always wanted to, Medicine. Imagine her surprise when she finds out the hockey superstar everyone's calling 'Arés' is non other than Aiden, her childhood sweetheart. And now imagine her shock when her rooming gets mixed up and she gets assigned in a room with non other than Arés himself But time has passed, Elizah is no longer the girl shes always been instead Aiden finds himself coming across a different girl, a girl who's no longer quiet but cocky, outgoing and confident. What happens when her new demeanour cracks and Aiden is the only one to see through her act?

Mason Harrison is the captain of the hockey team, undeniably good-looking, and always knows just what to say. But he doesn't come without his flaws... After a traumatic relationship leaves him unsure and fearful, Mason doesn't know when he will be ready to date again. If ever. Riley Adams is a ball of sunshine who radiates good vibes. The only problem is that her boyfriend isn't so nice. She's hopelessly in love with a boy who constantly mistreats her, even though all of her friends tell her she deserves better. What happens when Mason and Riley are introduced and their worlds collide? When Mason realizes that Riley deserves more than her hometown boyfriend?

I began to squeeze her even tighter. "Do you notice that you don't call Hawai'i home anymore? When you were over there and you'd talk about home, you'd always be referring to back here." She placed her palms on either side of my body and lifted herself up. Looking directly into my eyes, she confidently said, "No. I was always referring to you. You and Cayleigh are my home." ***** Cayden Jourdan is the guy every guy wants to be and every girl wants to be with. Everyone believes he not only has what it takes to lead his team to the Championships for the first time in school history but also to make it to the NFL. His skills on the field are extraordinary, but it has nothing on his skills in the bedroom. Just ask any girl on campus. Most of them are willing to do anything to get into bed with him. Some of them want even more. But unfortunately for them, he's not the relationship type. Never has been. And even if he were, his heart's not his to give away. It's completely owned by his four year old daughter, Cayleigh. But what happens when his little princess asks him to get her a real mommy for Christmas? What's the playboy to do? Brooke Kahele just made the biggest decision of her life...transferring to an out of state college. Can she survive being on her own for the first time when her whole support system is all the way on the other side of the Pacific Ocean? Well, ready or not, she's about to find out. CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS ***** Side note: The image used as my cover is not my own and I am in no way claiming it to be.