Silent storm (Lakeshore Storm #1)

"He was everything loud. She was everything quiet. Somehow, they fit."

Mia Bennett has spent her life surviving quietly.

Moving to Lakeshore College in Chicago is supposed to be her escape-from an abusive father, from a childhood shaped by fear, and from the responsibility of caring for her twin brother, Miles. But freedom doesn't come easily when Miles is an eighteen-year-old hockey star battling alcoholism, and Mia is the one holding everything together.

Shy, guarded, and struggling with anxiety, Mia has learned how to disappear into the background. She doesn't expect anyone to notice her.

Then she meets Kai Donavon, a confident, driven hockey player at Lakeshore, Kai is everything Mia isn't-and somehow, exactly what she needs. Through Miles and the team, their worlds collide, and Kai becomes the steady presence Mia never knew she was missing. He doesn't push. He doesn't judge. He simply stays.

But storms don't stay silent forever.

When their father reappears and the truth behind their mother's death comes to light, Mia and Miles are pulled back into the danger they thought they'd escaped. As the past threatens to destroy their future, it won't be the strongest man who saves them-but the brother who finally chooses to fight for himself, and for the sister who never stopped fighting for him.

Silent Storm is a raw, emotional college hockey romance about trauma, healing, and the quiet strength it takes to survive-and to love.