Unexpected Love - Garrett Graham

As the captain of the Briar U women's hockey team, Evangeline Maywell has her entire life mapped out. With professional PWHL scouts tracking her every shift and a brutal training schedule, she is entirely locked in, perfectly content with knowing everyone on campus but keeping her real circle fiercely small and distraction-free. But during a high-stakes Friday night home game, everything shifts. Standing by the glass is a certain hockey player who shares her number and title of captain, usually commands his own headlines, and the moment their eyes lock through the plexiglass mid-play, the absolute focus she prided herself on hit a massive speed bump. For the first time all season, Eva finds herself looking for a face in the crowd between shifts, realizing that the walls she built to protect her future might not be as strong as she thought.