He was my first love. The man I thought I’d spend forever with… until my parents moved away and I lost contact with him. I’ve been back in my hometown for a while and never ran into him. The last place I expect to see him is at a hockey game… on the ice.
She’s the one I compare every woman to. The reason I don’t date even though there’s no chance of us getting back together. Yet when I’m slammed into the glass during a game and find her on the other side, I can’t stop thinking about her and what could’ve been.
Tropes: small town romance, sports romance, hockey romance, friends to lovers, second chance, meet cute, forced proximity, he falls first, closed door romance
TW: stalker and violence
I’ve been in love with my best friend for as long as I can remember. We’ve known each other our entire lives and no matter how many times I try to convince myself a relationship would be a bad idea, I can’t seem to walk away from her. It doesn’t matter that she deserves someone better than me, I can’t let her go. After one bad night on the ice, my agent demands I find a fake girlfriend to help my image. I don’t want to use her like this, but she’s the only woman I can imagine having on my arm. Maybe I can convince her to give me a real shot before this is all over.
He’s always been my best friend. The one man I go to no matter what’s going on in my life. When he became a professional hockey player, I thought I’d lose him, but he never left me behind. He’s always kept me right there with him. Close, but not quite as close as I want to be. When he needs someone to be his fake girlfriend, I jump at the chance. I just need to know what it would be like to be loved by Jax Robinson, even if I know it’s fake. This might be my only chance to see what it would be like.
Tropes: sports romance, hockey romance, closed door romance, friends to lovers, small town romance, fake dating, sister’s best friend, best friend’s brother, he falls hard, closed door romance