Nadia Reeves has three rules for fall semester: run her squad, survive the co-sponsorship arrangement the Athletic Department dropped on her without warning, and absolutely, under no circumstances, feel anything about Cole Hartley. The last one should be easy. She's had two years of practice. Cole is the Hartwell Wolves' captain, the most infuriating person in any room he walks into, and the guy who ghosted her freshman year without a single explanation. She rebuilt herself after that silence. She's fine. She's completely fine. Then the Athletic Department makes them co-chairs of a joint committee for the entire semester — same events, same appearances, same table, same suffocating proximity — and fine stops being a word that applies. When one bad night and one reckless decision leads to a deal — no feelings, no history, no complications, just this, just them, just until the season ends — Nadia tells herself it's practical. Controlled. Exactly the kind of arrangement she can walk away from cleanly. She's wrong. Because Cole Hartley has a secret that changes everything she thought she knew about freshman year. And somewhere between the hatred and the deal and the late-night phone calls neither of them planned, the line between what they agreed to and what they actually feel stops being visible at all. Offside is a dual POV enemies-with-benefits college hockey romance about two people who are terrible at lying to everyone except themselves.

Nina Manalo is out of options. Broke, bullied, and barely surviving in a run-down flat, she’s one missed rent payment away from being homeless. When a mysterious man offers her a job as a live-in nanny for a billionaire’s daughter, she jumps at the chance—despite knowing nothing about her new employer. Malachi Kane is cold, powerful, and used to getting what he wants. A single father with no time for distractions, he hires Nina out of necessity, never expecting the quiet, stubborn young woman to turn his carefully controlled world upside down. But when stolen glances turn into forbidden nights, Malachi fights to keep his distance. He can’t afford to want her. Yet, Nina has already fallen. And when her dark past resurfaces—dragging her into a deadly game with old enemies—Malachi will stop at nothing to protect her. She was supposed to be his daughter’s nanny. She became his obsession. And now, she’s his to keep.