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Ella Collins has a plan for sophomore year at Belmont University: become a staff writer for The Belmont Chronicle, spend every spare moment with her best friends, and absolutely, under no circumstances, fall in love.
Then she spills an iced coffee all over Cole Walker.
Cole is Belmont's hockey captain, fresh out of a relationship that left him questioning everything he thought he knew about love. The last thing he wants is another relationship-especially with the journalism student assigned to cover his team.
When campus rumors, jealous exes, and unwanted attention start making life difficult, they come up with the perfect solution.
Fake date.
It has rules.
No catching feelings.
No mixed signals.
No crossing the line.
Simple... until late-night football stadium conversations, movie nights, pumpkin patches, stolen hoodies, and one unforgettable rainstorm make pretending feel a little too real.
Because sometimes the hardest rule to follow...
is the one that says you can't fall for the person who was never supposed to matter.
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"We were only supposed to fake the relationship. Nobody warned us about falling in love."