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She leaves behind cornfields and quiet nights for neon lights and second chances, chasing a journalism dream she's not sure she's brave enough to claim. New York is louder, faster and far less forgiving than anything she's ever known. By day, she's a scholarship student fighting to prove she belongs. By night, she hides between the shelves of a tiny downtown bookshop, where stories feel safer than real life.
Then Matthew walks in.
Rich, reckless, and captain of the university hockey team, he's everything she's been warned about and everything she can't seem to ignore. He doesn't do commitment. She's never even been in love. But what starts as stolen glances and sharp-tongued banter turns into something neither of them planned... and neither of them knows how to handle.