The Assist

Alison doesn't like hockey.

It's not the sport itself she hates - it's the people who play it. Growing up as the daughter of a local hockey legend with a superstar brother who follows in their father's footsteps, hockey players are all Alison has ever known. After a messy breakup with her brother's former teammate, she swore off hockey players for good. She's tired of the game, tired of the reputation attached to her last name, and tired of being stuck in Maukingnen Falls.

All Alison wants is to build a career that has nothing to do with hockey. If using her father's connections can help her land a few important meetings and finally get her out of town, then so be it. But when one too many drops of her last name somehow gets her stuck in the hometown hockey team's locker room showers, she finds herself caught somewhere she definitely shouldn't be - by none other than the team captain himself.
Dylan Cavanaugh is used to attention. As the biggest name in hockey at only twenty-three, privacy doesn't exist for him anymore - especially after his very public breakup with his Hollywood actress ex-girlfriend becomes tabloid fuel. Everywhere he turns, reporters are waiting for a comment and strangers think they know everything about his life.

So when Dylan learns why Alison despises hockey players so much, he comes up with a proposition that could solve both of their problems: a fake relationship.

For Alison, dating hockey's favorite superstar could finally separate her from her family's shadow, repair her reputation, and maybe even convince her toxic ex to leave her alone. For Dylan, it's the perfect distraction from the media circus surrounding his personal life - because the one woman everyone believes he's dating would never actually fall for another hockey player.

The plan is simple.
Fake the relationship.
Ignore the chemistry.
Don't catch real feelings.
What could possibly go wrong?