Completed • First Draft - not edited. || "You gonna sit there all night?" Luka glances at me, smirking. I glare back. "I was enjoying the last few seconds of peace before having to spend an evening pretending to like you." "That's funny," he says, unbuckling his seatbelt. "Why?" I snap. "Because I was thinking the same thing." || The rules? Easy enough. 1. Pretend to be the perfect couple. 2. Keep it professional. 3. And whatever you do, don't. catch. feelings. Simple, right? Sofia Calloway never planned on going viral for throwing a drink in Luka Mikhaylov's face. But one video, one pissed-off hockey star, and one furious university later... she's suddenly stuck in a fake relationship with the guy she can't stand. He needs to clean up his image before the NHL draft. She needs the free tuition that comes with the deal. All they have to do is smile for the cameras, hold hands at the games, and act like they don't want to strangle each other. Then come the late-night arguments that last too long. The stolen glances that feel too dangerous. The moment where "pretend" starts looking way too real. Because when you break the rules, someone's bound to lose. And this time, it might be both of them.

In the NHL, everything is measured in moments. Shifts. Periods. Overtime. Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith have always understood that kind of pressure. On the ice, they're precise, relentless, unstoppable. Off it, they have each other. They don't expect anything else, until her. Charlie never planned on being seen. She was just a fan in the stands, switching jerseys, holding signs no one was supposed to notice. As playoff runs blur into something bigger than hockey, the three of them begin to build a life that doesn't follow the rules-one shaped by choice, loyalty, and love that refuses to fit into neat lines.

"Victoria Rowe is a human metronome. Reliable. Consistent. And utterly forgettable." To the skating world, eighteen-year-old Victoria Rowe is the girl who never falls-and the girl who never wins. After a devastating twelfth-place finish at the 2025 World Championships, the critics are louder than ever: Victoria is "safe." She's a "double-jump specialist." She's a relic of an era where playing it cool was enough. But Victoria has a secret. In the quiet, midnight hours of frozen rinks, she isn't the ballerina Arthur, her controlling coach, wants her to be. She is a powerhouse landing quads that aren't supposed to be possible. Fed up with the labels and the limitations, Victoria makes a choice that shocks the skating world: she leaves the only coach she's ever known for the high-velocity camp of Tatiana Malinina. Training alongside the "Quad God" himself, Ilia Malinin, Victoria must do more than just find her technical edge-she has to find her voice. From the Grand Prix circuit to the bright lights of the 2026 Olympics, Victoria is no longer playing for a clean sheet. She's playing for a revolution. Because the only thing more dangerous than a girl who can jump is a girl who has nothing left to lose. number 1 in #figureskating on 02/09/26 number 1 in #skating on 02/10/26 number 1 in #ilia on 02/10/26 number 1 in #milan on 02/10/26 number 1 in #teamusa on 02/20/26 number 1 in #winterolympics on 02/22/26 *Please keep in mind that I myself am not a figure skater! I also do not know how the media works for Team USA, I only know how scoring and competition work because that is all I've ever watched!

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.

After livign in a romantic bubble during the Art on Ice tour, Lucia stays in Italy while Ilia Malinin focuses on the next steps of his skating career. What started as a whirlwind romance on tour now faces the reality of distance, busy schedules, and growing media attention. As Lucia tries to figure out her own future, their relationship is tested by time apart, doubts, and the pressures of the skating world.

Lucia, a shy, Italian volunteer at the Winter Olympics finds herself drawn to Ilia Malinin, even as her best friend Emma flirts boldly, sparking tension and attraction. Between competition, friendships and gossips, will Ilia still be able to bring the gold medal home ?

Jack Hughes is known for two things: his lethal talent on the ice and his icy demeanor off it. But when he abruptly walks out of a high-profile interview, he triggers a media firestorm that even his legendary focus can't ignore. Enter Katelyn Swiss. Warm, sharp, and entirely persistent, the up-and-coming sports journalist is tasked with rehabilitating the star forward's image. Her strategy? A series of deeply personal profile pieces designed to humanize the league's most elusive player. Jack expects an interrogation; Katelyn expects a brick wall. Instead, every late-night interview unravels a little more of his defenses. As the cameras fade and the headlines shift, the undeniable chemistry between them threatens to expose the one thing Jack never wanted the world to see: his heart.

SYDNEY is a figure skater who's all about that Olympic dream. She's got tunnel vision when it comes to her goals-no partying, no boys, just ice and grit. But if there's one thing she can't stand, it's the cocky hockey players who think they own the rink. Especially Luke Hughes, the campus golden boy who acts like he's too cool to care about anything that doesn't involve a puck. Luke's the type of guy who gets whatever he wants-girls, attention, a free pass to do whatever the hell he feels like. He's tall, hot as hell, and so confident it's annoying. But he's also carrying a load of pressure no one knows about, and he's damn good at hiding it. Everyone thinks he's the guy with no worries, but the truth is, he's cracking under the weight of living up to his brothers' NHL legacy. That's why Sydney hates him. They're supposed to hate each other, but the tension between them is so thick you could cut it with a skate blade. And once that tension snaps, all bets are off. It's dirty, it's raw, and it's nothing like either of them expected. They can't keep their hands off each other, but when the dust settles, they're both left wondering if this is just a fling or something that's gonna fuck up everything they've worked for.

He was the boy she used to hate. She was the girl he never forgot. Years ago, Harper Jones dismissed Quinn Hughes as just another arrogant athlete. He, on the other hand, memorized every scathing word she ever said to him. Now, they're trapped in the same wedding party. The old rivalry instantly reignites with sharp jabs and unresolved tension-until a sudden career-threatening injury sidelines Quinn. Forced to slow down, he finds that Harper is the only person who actually sees him, not just the NHL jersey. As the line between teasing and tenderness blurs, old fears and lingering exes threaten to ruin their second chance before it even begins.

Quinn Hughes is used to being watched. As the stoic captain of the Vancouver Canucks, he knows exactly how to play to the cameras-until a documentary crew embeds with the team for Face Off, shattering his carefully built walls. Behind the lens is Nathalie Rivers. Perceptive, talented, and entirely unimpressed by his public persona, she starts capturing the quiet moments the rest of the world misses. From early morning skates to shared breakfasts in the city, their professional boundaries begin to blur into something deeply personal. Quinn has spent his whole life protecting his game, but Nathalie is the first person to see the man behind the jersey. When the cameras stop rolling, they'll have to decide if their connection was just movie magic-or a love worth the spotlight.