Therisk Stories

Her or nothing... is a lie.

Conor Edwards is a good player on the ice when it comes to hockey and an even better talent in the bedroom. No girl is a challenge. Until Carter Miller. When an emergency leaves Briar U's hockey team down a player they're forced to improvise. Surprising both themselves and their competitors, Coach Jensen recruits from the girls hockey team. It takes the boys a while to adjust and it takes Conor even longer. Conor wants to sleep with her, but Carter wants to knock the self proclaimed hockey fuckboy down a notch. So they make a bet; she believes Conor can't go without sex for more than once a week, but Conor bets that Carter won't be able to stand being around him without sleeping with him post-sex.

Seventeen year old Sadie thought she had everything figured out for her life. She had it all, amazing grades, popularity, good looks, colleges lining up, sports, but one thing kept holding her back, her boyfriend Mathew. Constantly putting her down and convincing her she wasn't good enough, Sadie is left with a low self esteem and little trust in men, but after finding him with several other girls, she finally makes herself leave him. After that, Sadie's life took a dramatic turn for the worst. Unable to control her life anymore, Sadie begins getting in trouble more and more often. Drinking, smoking, and partying lead her mother to make the decision to have Sadie move away from sunny Florida, and in with her Aunt in southern Oregon for her senior year of high school. But on her Aunts ranch works twenty two year old Clinton Adams, a quiet ranch hand that lives in the small cabin behind her aunts house, and he might just be worth the risk.

Ella Grace Graham has spent her entire life learning how to survive pressure. As the younger sister of Garrett Graham, Briar University's hockey golden boy, expectations follow her everywhere. On the ice, she's one of the fiercest forwards in women's college hockey. Off the ice, she's exhausted from carrying the weight of a last name tied to talent, perfection, and a father who only knows how to love conditionally. Control is the only thing keeping her together. Then there's Beau Maxwell. Briar's star quarterback is everything Ella avoids: charming, reckless, social, impossible not to notice. She's known Beau for years through Garrett and the hockey house chaos. He's always been there in the background of her life, all easy smiles and late-night parties and sarcastic comments thrown across crowded kitchens. Until suddenly he isn't background anymore. Somewhere between shared classes, early morning practices, brutal family expectations, and conversations that stretch too long after midnight, Ella starts realizing the most dangerous thing about Beau Maxwell isn't his reputation. It's how safe he makes her feel. But friendships like theirs come with rules. Don't stare too long. Don't touch too much. Don't wonder what kissing your best friend would feel like. And definitely don't fall in love with someone capable of ruining you. As Briar's hockey and football worlds collide, relationships deepen, secrets unravel, and the line between friendship and wanting becomes impossible to ignore. Ella and Beau find themselves trapped in the terrifying space between almost and actually. Because some people become part of you quietly. And some loves arrive like a car crash: fast, beautiful, and impossible to survive unchanged.