Sharkshockey Stories

Hockey royalty was never supposed to have secrets. But Sidney Crosby has one. At the end of his rookie season in 2006, before the championships, before the dynasty, before the captaincy truly defined him, Sidney Crosby became a father. Her mother left before the ink dried on the birth certificate. From that moment on, it was just the two of them. Raised between locker rooms, road trips, and Stanley Cup celebrations, she grew up surrounded by hockey's biggest names. Marc-André Fleury taught her how to skate. Evgeni Malkin taught her Russian swear words. The Pittsburgh Penguins raised her almost as much as her father did. But she never wanted to be known as Sidney Crosby's daughter. So when she graduates and takes a media job with the San Jose Sharks, she does it quietly. New city. New life. No famous last name attached. What she doesn't expect is the Sharks' newest star rookie. Macklin Celebrini. The first overall pick. The future of the franchise. And a guy who grew up idolizing Sidney Crosby. At first they're just friends. Late night food runs, team dinners, inside jokes with Will Smith. But somewhere during Macklin's rookie season, friendship turns into something neither of them planned. And she hasn't told him the truth. Because falling for a rookie is complicated enough. Falling for someone who worships your dad? That's a disaster waiting to happen. Book One of the Bloodlines & Blue Lines Series

You've been touring stateside for months. Sold-out arenas. Flashing cameras. Headlines that dissect your love life more than your lyrics. Your boots hit stage floors in New York, Nashville, LA - and every night you end up in a dim dressing room, phone propped against a makeup mirror, whispering goodnight to a boy thousands of miles away. Your Swedish boy. William Eklund wasn't supposed to be more than a summer thing. A training camp charity event. A night that blurred into laughter and a stolen kiss under California fairy lights. But now? Now he's the one you call when the adrenaline fades. The one who watches you through a screen and says, "You don't have to be that girl with me." Opening up makes headlines. Missing him makes songs. And somewhere between FaceTime kisses and cross-country flights, you both have to decide- Is love strong enough to survive being stateside?

She met him as a fan in the stands of San Jose-just another face in a sea of teal, watching a boy who skated like the world was still something he could win. He noticed her anyway. What begins as a quiet, accidental connection grows into something consuming: late nights, shared dreams, and a love that feels inevitable long before it feels safe. She falls for him before the world does-before the pressure, before the expectations, before hockey stops being just a game and starts becoming everything else. They build a life in the in-between moments. They promise forever when forever still feels simple. They get married, believing love will be enough. It isn't. Told through a series of fractures disguised as memories, If I Loved You Less, I Might Have Stayed unravels a marriage one apology at a time: Something he did. His apology. Her forgiveness. The damage that never actually healed. Because love doesn't disappear all at once-it erodes. Quietly. Repeatedly. Until the weight of what's been forgiven becomes heavier than what remains. And when the apologies stop, it isn't because things got better- It's because she finally learned how to live without them.

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You and Will Smith grew up side by side in your small Massachusetts town-best friends who became everything to each other. But when he left for the big leagues and you stayed behind, life took you both in wildly different directions. Years later, grief pulls you back to the surface when your dad dies, and the last person you expect to call is Will. But he shows up. And suddenly you're back to sharing silence, laughter, pain, and the old promise that maybe you'd find your way back to each other someday. It's messy. It's honest. It's holding onto the people who know you when you don't know yourself.

Allegra "Alley" Hartley has always kept her guilty pleasures off her public feed - especially her obsession with hockey. As one of Hollywood's fastest-rising stars, she's got a brand to protect and a team of PR reps who'd faint if they saw her fangirling over game highlights at 2 a.m. But one clumsy Instagram post changes everything. When her not-so-private story praising a certain NHL rookie goes viral, Alley's thrown into a whirlwind of speculation - especially when that same rookie, Macklin Celebrini, reveals in an interview that she's his ultimate celebrity crush. Suddenly, the whole world is watching as their lives collide under the spotlight.