In San Jose, Delaney Grace Walsh is a florist assistant working at a popular, social-media-loved flower shop that never feels slow for long. Her routine shifts when a young San Jose Sharks center forward walks in one morning-an ordinary meeting that doesn't feel like much at the time, but begins to linger in the smallest ways. As chance keeps bringing them back into each other's orbit, quiet moments start to build into something neither of them planned for.

They came from two completely different worlds. Imogen Trevelyan is the drummer, songwriter, and backing vocalist for the world's fastest-rising rock band, Crimson Avenue. Oliver Bearman is one of Formula 1's brightest young stars. When a luxury brand signs them both as ambassadors, one contract changes everything. Photoshoots. Race weekends. Award shows. Interviews. Neither of them wants to be there. What starts as an obligation slowly turns into friendship, stolen glances, and feelings neither of them saw coming. Because sometimes the loudest love stories begin at full volume.

"Maybe we were never meant to find each other... until we stopped looking." or "Sometimes love isn't about finding the right person. It's about finding them at the right time."

Smut/spicy At nineteen, she leaves home with two suitcases, a place at a San Jose engineering program, and one promise to herself: never depend on anyone. Raised by emotionally neglectful parents, she's learned that getting close only leads to disappointment. Falling in love was never part of the plan. Then she meets Macklin Celebrini. The rising NHL star is everything she isn't expecting-kind, patient, and impossible to ignore. What begins as an unlikely friendship grows through late-night conversations, campus coffee runs, hockey games, and quiet moments that slowly become the best part of their days. For Macklin, falling is effortless. For her, every heartbeat feels like a risk. As feelings deepen, she's forced to confront the walls she's spent a lifetime building, while Macklin must decide whether love is worth waiting for. 71 Ways to Score is a slow-burn hockey romance about healing old wounds, finding home in unexpected places, and discovering that the hardest hearts are sometimes the ones most deserving of love.

"𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺" In which, Audrey Bell never expected her life to change so fast within less than a year. She took a poetry class as a freshman just to improve her songwriting skills, somehow ended up with her credited in a song by an artist that she never thought she would meet. Now, her newly found friends are inviting her to a hockey game as a way to promote one of their upcoming albums. Audrey didn't think she'd enjoy it, but she finds herself throughout the whole game drawn towards a certain rookie. or In which, Macklin Celebrini has been drawing attention from everyone since getting drafted. The attention is slowly building more pressure on him. His dad thinks he needs a break or a distraction, to keep Macklin from losing himself in the midst of it all. He didn't think he needed anything or anyone, until seeing a girl on the Jumbotron at a game.

We were supposed to be just friends, you don't live in my part of town, but maybe I'll see you out some weekend. - The rewritten version of my very first book 'Glitch' I have grown as a writer and think you guys deserve the best version of it. I didn't give you guys enough backstory or plot, so this is me making up for it <3 I love you guys! Love, Lottie

When independent assassin Aster Hart is sent by General Ross to find and ultimately dispose of newly declared fugitive Steve Rogers, she begins to question to herself just why the US government would want him dead rather than alive and in custody. With her assassination attempt on him failing, Steve gives Aster a choice. Either join him on the run and redeem herself, or die trying to leave. The choice is obvious, and the pair soon become closer after their frosty introduction. During this time Aster and Steve do their own digging and discover that Ross is biting off more than he can chew. His allegiances lie with the enemy than to his country, and now it's down to them to stop him. Warning 18+ - Contains swearing, mature themes and eventual smut. I don't own any of the Marvel characters, just my own OC.

Book 2 of The Fine Print Series Emma Bennett has always been the fun one. The loud one. The impulsive one. The one who says exactly what's on her mind. At twenty-one years old, she's living her dream as a professional hockey player for the Toronto Sceptres, spending her off-season celebrating her best friend's wedding in Ireland. Being Maid of Honour at Parker and Macklin's wedding should be simple. Give her speech. Drink champagne. Dance. Try not to cry. Unfortunately, Will Smith is there. Twenty-two-year-old NHL forward Will Smith is charming, irritating, funny, and entirely too good at getting under Emma's skin. As Best Man, he's everywhere she is-and after one unforgettable wedding reception, neither of them can pretend there's nothing between them anymore. What starts as a secret becomes something far more complicated. Because Emma plays professional hockey. Will plays professional hockey. Their schedules are impossible. Their lives are public. And telling the truth would mean explaining everything to the two people who brought them together in the first place: Parker and Macklin. So they make a deal. No labels. No questions. No getting attached. And absolutely no one can find out. But stolen weekends, late-night phone calls, and secret flights have a way of turning into something real. The problem with keeping a relationship off the record? Eventually, someone starts reading between the lines.

Centre Ice follows Dilara Anderson, a former elite hockey player who walks away from the sport after years of bullying, harassment, and a devastating betrayal by her first love, James Carter-a charming teammate who manipulated her trust as part of a cruel game. The experience leaves her traumatised, forcing her to abandon the game she once loved and vow never to date another hockey player. After moving to San Jose with her parents for a fresh start, Dilara focuses on school and rebuilding her life, keeping her distance from the hockey world despite her father's involvement as a coach and billet host. Everything changes when she meets Macklin Celebrini, a talented young hockey star and close friend of one of her family's billet players. Although she's immediately drawn to his kindness and sincerity, Dilara refuses to let herself get close, convinced history will repeat itself.

She was supposed to leave him behind. Instead, he followed her home - with a grin and a proposition she can't seem to refuse. • • • Leon Collins has an uncanny resemblance to temptation - and Charlotte Hudson knows better than to touch it twice. As maid of honour to her best friend and sister-in-law-to-be, Charlotte's only job is to keep the wedding week flawless. But that's easier said than done when the best man is Leon: her brother's best friend, her best friend's brother, and the one mistake she swore she'd never make again. They danced too close once - too drunk, too messy, too young - but there's always consequences to dancing with temptation and Charlotte has paid the price. One she promises herself she won't ever revisit. But now they're walking down the aisle together, tension simmering under every glance, every brush of skin, every drunken confession that never should've left her lips. When the week ends, Charlotte thinks she's leaving the past - her young and stupid mistakes - and him behind for good. She's wrong. Because Leon Collins just got traded to her new team. Now he's in her office, in her space, and in her head - all charm, smirks, and a proposition that shouldn't sound as tempting as it does. One rule. No feelings. Just a physical arrangement to burn off the heat neither of them can seem to ignore. But desire this dangerous doesn't play by the rules. And the closer Charlotte gets to Leon, the more her carefully built walls begin to crack. She promised herself she'd never fall for him again. But Leon Collins has always been the one risk she can't resist.