A regular comes to the bakery across the street from the ice rink, the more she gets to know Savanah the more she thinks shed be perfect for her son.

When star hockey player Macklin Celebrini accidentally confesses having a longtime celebrity crush on rising pop star Samira Valance, the internet loses its mind. The video went viral, reaching millions of views. Everyone seemed to know about it. Everyone except Samira herself. Burned out by fame and pressure, Samira finds herself trying to find a way to get rid of her writer's block with peace. The singer decided to start a road trip to San Jose. Hoping to finally get the inspiration she needed to write the second album that her label was so desperate about. However, she finds herself standing outside a certain hockey player's front door. Begging him, for the love of God, to turn the music down.

Some people meet the love of their life in the most extraordinary way. Nora Bennett met hers because her best friend fell for his teammate. As an aspiring author and devoted single mom, Nora has spent years building a life for her son, convinced that her own happily ever after had already passed her by. Macklin Celebrini knows what it means to play in front of thousands of fans. He has no idea how to let just one person truly know him. Between hockey games, bedtime stories, coffee runs, and a little boy with endless questions, two strangers slowly discover that sometimes the family you've been searching for is the one you never expected to find. - Tropes :) Hockey Romance Slow Burn Single Mom Aspiring Author Chaotic Toddler Sunshine x Reserved Found Family Friends to Lovers (Adjacent) He Falls First Happy Ending

When Will Smith takes his best friend Macklin Celebrini on Vacation with his family, Macklin falls pretty hard for Y/N Smith.

When Lila Brooks starts working for NHL Media at eighteen years old, she thinks she's beginning a career. Instead, she's collecting memories. Some are big. Most aren't. A birthday surprise from people she didn't know cared. A phone call after a bad day. A seat saved on a plane. A nickname that somehow sticks. The kind of moments that seem ordinary while they're happening and become the ones you hold onto years later. Through changing seasons, growing careers, and a team that slowly becomes something much more than coworkers, Lila learns that home isn't always where you start. Sometimes it's who you find along the way.

Macklin Celebrini is an attention-hating, humble hockey player who carries the weight of the future of the NHL on his shoulders. Miley Carter is a billionaire with the weight of her self-made company on her shoulders. A simple brand ambassadorship quickly blurs into a complicated charade, forcing them to cross the line between a carefully staged public relationship and very real, private emotions.

Eliana Arellano and Will Smith have always been close, best friends with a complicated past and feelings that never seem to go away. From high school prom night and almost-kisses to college breakups and quiet heartbreaks, their story is full of missed chances and unspoken words. Years later, Eliana becomes a sports reporter and ends up covering the NHL team Will just got drafted to. He's distant, and she's still hurt. But old feelings don't just disappear.. and neither do the "what ifs." For the Record, I loved you is a story about love that doesn't go away, timing that never feels right, and two people who keep finding their way back to each other. ___ Beginning is end of high school then there's a time skip to their time in Boston, and ofc the NHL.

Sabrina Celebrini was on skates since she was two years old, her twin brother, Macklin Celebrini, was on the ice with her everyday. Growing up a figure skater, the pressure was always something Sabrina had excelled in dealing with... at least infront of cameras and a sold out crowd on the ice. Now at 19 years old, Sabrina continues her training in California with her twin brother, the new star of the San Jose Sharks. Will Smith, the 4th overall pick in the 2023 NHL draft, knew that sisters were off limits, especially ones who are related to his best friend. Will knew of Sabrina but never wished to cross the line of becoming anything more than acquaintances, not until tonight. New years...the start of something new or the continuation of something that in reality is nothing?

ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴀ ɢʟᴏʙᴀʟ ᴘᴏᴘꜱᴛᴀʀ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴀ ꜱᴀɴ ᴊᴏꜱᴇ ꜱʜᴀʀᴋꜱ ʜᴏᴄᴋᴇʏ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ɢʀᴏᴜᴘ ᴏꜰ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴀꜱ ᴀ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʜᴇʀ ᴛᴏᴜʀ. ᴏʀ ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴀ ʀɪꜱɪɴɢ ɴʜʟ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɢᴏᴇꜱ ᴏᴜᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ɪɴ ꜱᴀɴ ᴊᴏꜱᴇ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴄᴏʀɪɴɢ ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀ.

when famous pop star Lila Hughes falls for the NHL's pretty boy, Will Smith