Hannah Reed has a plan. Make Ethan Cross notice her. Stop being the invisible girl with the color-coded notes and the hopeless crush. Finally become the kind of girl who gets chosen instead of overlooked. Nate Wilder has a problem. After one too many public scandals, the Northwood hockey star is officially on thin ice. His coach wants clean. Stable. Respectable. Which is unfortunate, considering Nate's reputation is built on parties, bad decisions, and never taking the same girl home twice. So when Nate realizes Hannah wants Ethan's attention, and Hannah realizes Nate needs a fake girlfriend to fix his image, they make a deal. She'll help him look like a reformed campus playboy. He'll help her make Ethan jealous. No feelings. No complications. No crossing lines they can't uncross. Simple enough. Until fake dates start feeling real. Until Nate becomes the one teaching Hannah how to be touched, wanted, and confident. Until the boy who never dates starts looking at her like she's the only thing on campus worth risking his heart for. Hannah wanted Ethan to finally see her. She never planned on Nate being the one who couldn't look away.

Bella Moore has spent her life running away from hockey. Growing up in a family obsessed with the sport, she watched her father, coach of the Boston Bruins, devote himself entirely to her brother Antony's career, while she disappeared into the background. Now 26, she is a therapist who helps teenagers overcome addiction. All she wants is a quie and simple life far away from hockey. Lucas Moreau is everything Bella is not. He is the NHL's most famous bad boy, a French Canadian enforcer for the Montreal Canadiens. Charismatic, arrogant, and unapologetically aggressive, Lucas loves to dominate, attract attention, and break hearts. When their worlds collide, the rivalry between Boston and Montreal isn't the only source of tension.

Chiara Giordano was born and raised in the U.S. until her father died and her mother took her and her siblings back to her home country, France. Years later, Chiara moves back to the U.S. for her last year of her degree in a exchange program with st Cloud university in Minessota where her cousin and best friend also studies. There, she meets Adrian Vidal, from the neighbour college. One spontaneous night spent together creates a lasting bond between both of them, that can't go away. The problem? He's her cousin's biggest rival on the ice and he's in love with his best friend's sister. But they can't seem to keep away from each other as Adrian faces the pressure of family and being the team captain while Chiara tries to figure out where she belongs and what she wants to do with her life after her last year of college while playing on the college rugby team. Maybe what they need is exactly what they can't have