Noelle Mercer arrives at Harlow University with a 4.0 mindset, a pre-law major, and a plan she's been building since she was sixteen. She is not here for parties or hockey players or the kind of college experience her strict, achievement-obsessed upbringing never allowed her to want. She is here because the Whitmore family destroyed hers.The Whitmore Industries lawsuit dissolved her parents' marriage, gutted her father's business, and reduced a family that once had everything to a mother who works too hard and a father who barely gets out of bed. The evidence that the lawsuit was fabricated exists somewhere. Noelle intends to find it. Getting hired at the Harlow University ice rink — where Cole Whitmore, star hockey player and heir to the Whitmore name, trains every day — is not a coincidence.The problem is Cole Whitmore in person. He is charming, yes, in the reflexive way of someone who has always been looked at. But he is also, unexpectedly, someone who listens. Someone who shows up differently without an audience. Someone who is quietly suffocating under his own family's name in a way Noelle recognizes from a different angle.Eli Navarro, her oldest friend and the only person who knows the full truth, offers her everything she always wanted before she started wanting things she didn't plan for. He is safe and certain and real, and choosing him would cost her nothing except the thing she is already losing to Cole.Cold Puck, Warm Lies is about what happens when revenge and feeling occupy the same body — when the mission and the mistake are the same person, when justice and love pull in opposite directions, and when a girl raised to be perfect finally decides to be honest with her feelings