HOTTER THAN ICE

Ava Bennett has one rule at Frostbridge University: stay focused, protect her scholarship, and stay far away from Ryder Cole.Unfortunately, Ryder has other plans.As the university's star hockey captain, Ryder is used to getting whatever he wants. Girls chase him, professors admire him, and his teammates follow his lead. But Ava is different. She doesn't care about his popularity, his money, or the army of girls waiting for his attention.She can't stand him.And Ryder can't seem to stay away from her.What begins with constant arguments quickly turns into an attraction neither of them can control. One stolen kiss leads to secret meetings, late nights, and a relationship they're determined to keep hidden from the entire campus.For Ava, Ryder is supposed to be temporary.But the more she gets to know him, the more she discovers the man behind the confident smile—a man carrying the weight of his family's expectations and a future he isn't sure he wants anymore.Then Ryder's past comes back to destroy everything.His jealous ex refuses to let him go. Rumors spread across campus. Their secret relationship is threatened, and soon Ava's scholarship and Ryder's hockey career are both hanging by a thread.With Ryder's father demanding that he choose his future over Ava, she makes the painful decision to walk away before she becomes the reason he loses everything.But Ryder refuses to let her go. For the first time in his life, the hockey captain has found something he can't win with talent, money, or determination.Ava's heart. And if he wants her back, he'll have to prove that she's more than a secret, more than a temptation, and more than the girl who made him break every rule.retr