Nineteen-year-old Skyler is stepping onto the world's biggest stage: her first Olympics in Livigno Snow Park, competing in halfpipe and big air snowboarding. Talented, determined, and fiercely independent, she's accustomed to carrying pressure alone-but the Olympics are different. Between media scrutiny, high expectations, and the relentless mountain slopes, Skyler struggles to find her footing. Skyler notices a quiet figure in the crowd of Team Canada hockey players: Macklin Celebrini, also nineteen, shy, reserved, and facing his own first Olympic debut. Skyler can't help but notice the similarity in the weight they both carry-expectations, pressure, and the desire to prove themselves.

Story Description Milena Crosby spent years building herself into someone untouchable. Olympic-bound figure skater. Daughter of hockey legend Sidney Crosby. Cold, composed, impossible to read. The media thinks her life is perfect - fame, money, talent handed to her before she could even skate. They're wrong. Will Smith has spent just as many years deciding exactly who Milena is without ever trying to know her. Arrogant, sarcastic, and annoyingly talented, the young Will Smith forward treats every interaction between them like a battle he refuses to lose. From the moment they met, they hated each other. Or at least that's what they tell themselves. Every season becomes the same routine: sharp comments across arenas, heated arguments in family suites, lingering stares neither of them can explain. But beneath the rivalry, both of them are hiding things nobody else sees - pressure, loneliness, expectations, and the kind of childhood wounds that never fully disappear. When Milena's skating career explodes after a history-making performance on the international stage, Will starts realizing the girl he judged for years is nothing like he imagined. And Milena begins to understand that sometimes the people who see through you the easiest are the ones you fight the hardest to push away. Set between NHL arenas, international skating competitions, and cities that feel too cold to hold secrets, Edges of Hate is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story about ambition, grief, family, and two people learning that surviving isn't the same thing as healing.

in which alexa celebrini moves to san jose after a career-ending skating injury and accidentally finds a new version of herself between early morning rinks, tiny girls in sparkly dresses, and her twin brother's best friend. or, will smith falls in love with a girl who thinks she's already lost everything - and stays long enough to prove she hasn't.

They were best friends before he became Formula 1's future. Now the cameras are everywhere, the pressure is unbearable, and falling for each other was never part of the plan. A slow-burn friends-to-lovers Formula 1 romance about growth, fame, and choosing love anyway.

"You... are like a thorn! So excited to get the rose, yet when you go to pick the damn thing, you get pricked and it makes you bleed!" "Only an idiot would wrap their whole palm around the stem of a rose." 𒀭 She had been poached from her position, brought in and locked in a cage to tame a lion in exchange for stacks of cash, if she made it out alive. He was the lion, making sure she never touched that stack of cash waiting for her. ✈︎Enemies to lovers ✈︎Slow burn romance ✈︎Forced proximity 𒀭 MATURE CONTENT. 18+ ONLY. ADULT CONTENT. LANGUAGE. MINOR VIOLENCE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. 𒀭 Started August 7th, 2024. Finished August 14th, 2025.

Will Smith has never had trouble getting a woman's number. Until Camille Foster. She rejected him once. Then again. And somehow... keeps showing up everywhere he goes. Each encounter is more irritating than the last. Camille is sharp, unimpressed, and completely immune to his charm. Will should forget about her. But the more their paths keep crossing, the more impossible that becomes. And the last thing he expects... is that Camille is about to become a permanent part of his life.

Sugar's addicting. So is she. Graham Davis has two addictions: Hockey-and Gracie Daniels. (Not that he knows it yet.) At St. Brown University, Gracie Daniels is the golden girl. Blonde ponytail, perfect smile, always saying yes. So when she's asked to manage PR for the hockey team, she agrees-hoping to help thaw their notoriously icy captain. But Graham Davis doesn't melt. He's distant, guarded, and doesn't need help from a pink-sweater-wearing perfectionist... until he starts noticing things he shouldn't. Skipped meals. Covered bruises. Flinches too small to be accidental. Gracie is sweet, bright, and hiding more than anyone knows. And Graham can't stop looking.

"The Underground Fighter and His Childhood Best Friend" ❦ Sasha "Kayo" Sokolov is a Russian fighter who was sent to America at a young age. One day, he met a young girl by the name of Everleigh Wilson, who taught him how to speak English, and helped him with his studies. They bonded so easily and became the best of friends. Years passed, and Sasha disappeared. Everleigh had to go on with life without her best friend. Until one lonely night when she saw the one man she loved more than anything beating another man to death. - "What happened to the boy I used to know?" she questioned, shutting her eyes at the feel of his hand traveling up her dress. He was so close to her throbbing core, and she hated how much she wanted him to touch her, enter her, ruin her. Sasha smirked sadistically. "He's gone, kitten. And he's never coming back." ❦ 𝐁𝐖𝐖𝐌, 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.

Even if the ice he plays is hard, her feisty attitude would melt down his walls until he loves her again... **** Blonde with natural small hint of light brunette by the top of her head, ocean blue eyes, hotshot yet dangerous enough to draw blood, Gwen Mildred stands between the life and death of her patients. Born to be a psychiatrist, forced to become a nurse, Gwen knows the way to keep her patience and composure cool in a way a person couldn't; except for Xayl Marlowe. Green eyed, perfect skin, with a dimple to hypen the touch, Xayl Marlowe was the ice hockey player any woman could ever want. Born to the world and fed with a golden spoon, Xayl has it all. But Gwen was the opposite; living her life with a secret she wouldn't dare to trigger or everything would be destroyed. Yet even if in the darkest shadows, the slightest light would reveal the ugliest secrets the past had dirt. What's the twist? I don't know either. Both hatred and desires rise to the surface with tension as they meet again after almost a decade. Girl said it's just a coincidence, but boy says it's the sign for his revenge he had longed to commit. Would she run? Would he haunt her? Or would she fight for the future who would mud every single wall she had built to keep her safe?

He's the NHL star with a cold reputation--she's the spark that could melt it all. All Lilah wants to do is keep her head down, finish her online college course, chase her dreams of becoming a baker, and survive. But when a photo caught at the wrong time with the NHL's newest star, Cole Becker, goes viral, she's suddenly thrust into the limelight--exactly where she doesn't want to be. And when the person she tried so hard to escape from resurfaces because of her new popularity, Lilah has no choice to run to the safety of fame and Cole Becker as his fake-girlfriend. Because no one can lay a finger on the newest sweetheart of hockey, can they? But Cole makes her feel things she's never felt before and she wants nothing but to be loved by the boy that makes her feel beautiful and safe. Cole Becker needs an out, and fast. A stupid rumor built on absolutely nothing is threatening to destroy the reputation he's barely built. He's only a few games into his rookie NHL season and already he's been nicknamed the NHL's "Ice King;" scary, domineering, and arrogant. So when Lilah crashes her way into his world, he has no choice but to fake-date her, to both help his reputation, and to help the girl who's already got him wrapped around her finger. He wants to show her she's worthy of love. She wants to be loved by him. And when the lines between real and fake start to blur, Lilah has to let go of the secrets in her past holding her down and let herself love the goalie. But someone is lurking in the shadows, ready to steal Lilah away from the life she's tried so hard to build. Past Rankings: #1: cinderellastory #1: hockeyromance #4: loveatfirstsight #2: minnesota #2: waitress #1: slowburn #1: shygirl