The Dating Deal
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Hannah Reed has a plan.
Make Ethan Cross notice her. Stop being the invisible girl with the color-coded notes and the hopeless crush. Finally become the kind of girl who gets chosen instead of overlooked.
Nate Wilder has a problem.
After one too many public scandals, the Northwood hockey star is officially on thin ice. His coach wants clean. Stable. Respectable. Which is unfortunate, considering Nate's reputation is built on parties, bad decisions, and never taking the same girl home twice.
So when Nate realizes Hannah wants Ethan's attention, and Hannah realizes Nate needs a fake girlfriend to fix his image, they make a deal.
She'll help him look like a reformed campus playboy.
He'll help her make Ethan jealous.
No feelings. No complications. No crossing lines they can't uncross.
Simple enough.
Until fake dates start feeling real. Until Nate becomes the one teaching Hannah how to be touched, wanted, and confident. Until the boy who never dates starts looking at her like she's the only thing on campus worth risking his heart for.
Hannah wanted Ethan to finally see her.
She never planned on Nate being the one who couldn't look away.
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