Chasing The Quiet
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Dean Rhodes has always known who he is on the ice.
Focused. Fearless. Built for the future everyone expects from him.
Vanessa never planned to start over - new school, new city, new life, and a past she refuses to let follow her. Art is the only place she feels safe, the only way she knows how to rebuild what was broken.
When their worlds collide, neither of them is looking for something serious.
But quiet conversations turn into late-night walks.
Careful distance turns into something real.
And for the first time, both of them find a place where they don't have to pretend to be stronger than they feel.
Until the past resurfaces.
A rivalry. A fight. A truth left unspoken.
And suddenly trust becomes harder than love.
Now Dean has to decide who he wants to be beyond hockey,
and Vanessa has to decide whether her heart is brave enough to try again.
Because sometimes the hardest thing isn't falling in love.
It's believing you deserve the life waiting on the other side of it.
A soft, emotional college romance about healing, found family, first real love, and choosing a future that's bigger than the one you planned.
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