Burning Hearts

Steel City Series - Book 1

They say hating someone feels disturbingly the same as loving them.

But for Camila Gibson, all she feels towards hockey player Jacques Steel is hatred. And the line between love and hate is as thick as it gets for her. She's hated him since the day they first met and her feelings towards him are irrevocably irreversible.

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After an incident destroys her life and everything she thought she knew, Camila Gibson wants nothing more than to erase the past year of her life and start over. Returning to Steel after a year of absence, Camila is armed with only one goal, to keep her head down and work towards her dream of becoming an artist.

Her dreams are within reach and she can't afford to have anything else deter her pathway. She'll stop at nothing to hide the gruesome secret that destroyed her life, even if it means giving up the possibility of loving again.

Jacques Steel is a hockey prodigy. As the son of Preston Steel, one of the greatest NHL players in existence, Jacques has the weight of the world on his shoulders, pressuring him to live up to expectations. He can't afford any distractions and for the most part he's stayed true to his "no girlfriend's rule", keeping the women he's slept with at a far distance. Close enough to mess around with but always far enough to let go of.

But when the media starts calling him the "Womanizer of Chicago", Jacques is forced to take matters into his own hands to protect his reputation. He must find a fake girlfriend to date for the entire semester until he graduates in order to erase the stains on his reputation and secure himself a spot in the NHL draft. When his enemy offers to fake date him as long as he agrees to help her with her art project, sparks ignite between them that neither of them can ignore.

But with secrets hiding beneath the surface, can Camila and Jacques allow their hearts to open at a chance at love? Or will their demons threaten to tear them apart for good?