Hate. Oh yes, I fucking hate Chase Hartley. I mean he's... cocky, a college hockey star, and to top it all, he's my soon-to-be stepbrother. Because my dad decided to get married and have me trapped under the same roof with him for the entire summer. But everything changed the day we kissed. Everything turned forbidden. WARNING: THIS NOVEL IS SPICY. LESS HOCKEY. MUCH SEX

BOOK ONE OF THE NORTHBRIDGE WOLVES --- **He broke my brother. Now he's paying to fix him.** Wren Castellano has hated Knox Hollis since the night he put her brother Eli in a hospital bed. So when her father, head coach of the Northbridge Wolves, signs "the Butcher" as his new star center, Wren wants blood. Instead, she gets a clinical assignment: rehab his shoulder. Every day. Hands on his skin. Then a viral photo makes them the internet's favorite scandal, and Knox's agent makes an offer Wren can't refuse. Three months of fake dating to rescue his reputation. In exchange, a foundation pays for the neuro clinic that could give Eli his life back. No real kisses. No sleeping together. No questions about that night. But Knox has nightmares that scream her brother's name. Wren has a secret about that night she's never told anyone. And someone out there has the video that could destroy them both. **Rule one of hockey: what happens on the ice has consequences. Rule one of Wren's heart: it was never supposed to be him.**

She's the team's new sports psychologist. He's the captain she's forbidden to touch. NOVA CALLOWAY thought she'd put her past behind her when she accepted a job as the Chicago Glaciers' sports psychologist -- a dream position that could launch her career. What she didn't expect was to come face-to-face with COLE HARRINGTON, the NHL's most dangerous, devastatingly gorgeous captain... and the man who shattered her heart five years ago without ever knowing she existed. Cole Harrington is two seasons away from retirement, carrying a shoulder injury he's hiding from the team, a gambling debt his dead brother left behind, and a media scandal threatening to tear his legacy apart. When a gossip blogger threatens to expose his reckless past, his PR team hatches a plan: fake-date someone wholesome, stable, and trustworthy. Nova is the last person he'd choose. She's his employee. She knows all his psychological weak points. She challenges him at every turn. And she's hiding something from him -- something that could blow up not just their arrangement, but the entire Glaciers organization. What starts as a calculated arrangement ignites into something neither of them can control. But between a forbidden clause in her contract, Cole's dangerous entanglements with organized crime (courtesy of his brother's debt), a rival who wants Nova for himself, and a secret paternity revelation that will rock the entire league -- falling in love was never part of the deal. And when the truth finally comes out, it won't just break two hearts. It will burn everything down.