Lola ✔
Lola Morin has been the Warriors hockey team's unofficial thirteenth member since freshman year, taping sticks, running drills, and keeping the boys together after her older brother Connor (their former captain) died in a car accident. Senior year in Sudbury, Ontario, she's still showing up at 6 a.m. practices in his old jacket while juggling an empty house, a mom who works endless nursing shifts, and grief that never quite leaves.
The twelve current players (and one female goalie who's more honorary sister than teammate) have watched Lola hold everyone else up for years. When the weight finally starts to crack her, they refuse to let her sink alone. What starts as grocery runs, driveway shoveling, and late-night study sessions quietly turns into something deeper: a fierce, protective love that doesn't ask her to choose between them.
A slow-burn, polyamorous romance set against the ice rinks and frozen lakes of Northern Ontario, this is a story about grief, found family, and thirteen hearts learning that sometimes the strongest line on the ice isn't four players and a goalie; it's the people who refuse to let you face the dark by yourself.