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Olivia never planned on writing about ice hockey.
She joined the university newspaper to chase real stories - the kind that changed people's minds, not just match scores. But when her editor assigns her a weekly feature on the men's hockey team, she's stuck shadowing their star winger: Noah Carter.

Noah is everything she doesn't write about - confident, athletic, a little too sure of himself. The kind of boy who always seems to know where he's going. Until she realises he doesn't.

Between late-night interviews, quiet coffees, and lessons on a frozen rink, Olivia starts to see the cracks in his composure - and the warmth underneath. He listens. He remembers what she says. And when she falls (literally) on the ice, he's the one who reaches out a gloved hand to catch her.

But feelings don't fit into deadlines.
And when friendship starts to blur into something else - something deeper, passionate and terrifyingly real - Olivia has to decide whether the story she's been writing is really about hockey... or about the boy who makes her heart skip every time he looks her way.

A passionate, university romance about friendship, ambition, and the quiet moments that turn into love - when the ice finally melts.