Thunder And Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir

Silver Preston was supposed to be America’s next figure skating champion. Until one devastating injury shattered her Olympic dreams and left her struggling to figure out who she is without the ice. Starting over at Yale should have been her chance to disappear. Instead, she finds herself constantly crossing paths with Eli Hayes, the university’s hockey captain. Confident, talented, and impossible to ignore, Eli seems determined to break through every wall Silver has built around herself. As old wounds, campus gossip, and the pressure of their futures threaten to pull them apart, Silver and Eli discover that healing is never as simple as walking away from the past. The closer they grow, the harder it becomes to ignore the connection neither of them expected. Set against the backdrop of elite sports, Ivy League life, and second chances, Ice is an emotional college romance about ambition, resilience, and finding the courage to choose your own future—even when your heart is on the line.

We promised forever, but his hockey fame tore us apart. Five years later, I’m the journalist assigned to cover his championship run. He’s cold during interviews, answers clipped, eyes never lingering long enough for me to read what he’s thinking. But off-camera, his burning gaze pins me down like I never left. Like we never ended, which blurs the line of love and lust. The team calls him untouchable now. A league legend in the making. I came here to tell his story, not to fall back into it. But as I dug deep, I realized everything I thought I knew was a lie. And someone is determined to make sure I uncover it, no matter who gets destroyed when I do. Including Me.

Skye Emerson has spent most of her high school years invisible, until a chance encounter lands her in the path of Knox Callahan, Stonebridge High’s golden boy and captain of the hockey team. Cold, cocky, and impossibly popular, Knox lives for the rink and hates distractions. But when Skye accidentally ruins his shot at a scholarship tryout, she becomes his biggest problem and his unexpected obsession. Forced to work together on a school fundraiser, their rivalry spirals into tension, secrets, and stolen glances. But Knox has something to prove to everyone, and Skye has scars no one sees. He’s chasing the NHL. She’s trying to survive senior year. Falling in love was never part of the plan. In a world where reputation means everything, can two broken hearts survive the pressure or will their love shatter on the ice? Find out in Iced Hearts and Halftime Kisses.

Andre Kim has a plan. To Finish his final year of university. Lead his team to a championship. Get drafted into the NHL. Only to fall catastrophically in love with his best friend's boyfriend. That last part was not in the plan. When a burst pipe floods his dorm and leaves him with one reassignment option sharing a room with Dylan, science genius, amateur boxer, and the single most beautiful person Andre has ever seen in his life he tells himself he can handle it. It's just proximity. It's just inconvenient timing. It's just the fact that Dylan doesn't even know who he is, despite wearing his name and number on the back of a custom glitter jacket.

Elena Brooks gave five years of her life to Damien Volkov — the golden king of professional hockey, the man the world worshipped, and the husband who never truly loved her back. But the night she catches Damien in bed with the woman he claimed was his cousin, something inside Elena finally breaks. Heartbroken and secretly pregnant with his child, she walks away from her marriage with one vow: no more hockey players. No more love. No more chances to be destroyed by a man who only knows how to hurt her. Then Alexander St. James crashes into her life. Cold. Ruthless. Intimidatingly powerful. As the captain of the New York Blades — and Damien’s biggest rival on the ice — Alexander is everything Elena should avoid. But when he saves her from a dangerous attack, he offers her a deal that feels impossible to refuse: Pretend to be his fiancée, and in return, he’ll help her make Damien regret betraying her. It was supposed to be simple. Fake smiles. Public kisses. A calculated revenge plan. Until Alexander starts looking at her like she’s something precious. Until his touch begins to feel dangerously real. Until Elena discovers the heartbreaking reason he needed a fake fiancée in the first place. And just when she begins falling for the one man she promised herself she’d never want… Damien discovers she’s carrying his baby. Now the husband who neglected her for years is ready to burn the world down to get her back. Caught between a possessive ex-husband and the man slowly stealing her heart, Elena must decide if love is worth risking everything for again — or if some hockey players are destined to break her forever.

On the night of our third anniversary, I caught my girlfriend in bed with my best friend, the flowers were still in my hands. The ring was still in my pocket. And the people I trusted most looked me in the eye and laughed. One night was all it took to destroy three years of love, friendship, and loyalty. By morning, I had lost everything. My relationship, My best friend, My reputation. Even my place on the hockey team I'd sacrificed everything for. Then he showed up. Noah Knight. The Hockey King, The captain of the rival team. The man I've hated for years. Arrogant, Untouchable, Infuriating. The last person I wanted anywhere near me. But when the entire world turned its back on me, Noah refused to walk away. He kept appearing when I needed him most. He kept protecting me when I never asked him to. And the deeper I fell into the mess surrounding my cheating ex, the more I realized Noah was hiding dangerous secrets of his own. Secrets that connected him to my past. Secrets that could destroy everything I thought I knew. Including the truth about why the man I hated seemed incapable of letting me go. In a world of hockey, betrayal, rivalry, obsession, and buried truths, one question refuses to leave me alone: Why does my enemy care so much about me? And what happens when I discover that the line between hatred and love was never there to begin with? A gripping BL hockey romance filled with betrayal, enemies-to-lovers tension, emotional healing, jealousy, secrets, obsession, and a slow-burning love story that will keep you turning pages late into the night.