Contemporary Web Novels & Intelligent Sports Stories

Sports journalist Laura Jean "LJ" Renard built her career by asking the questions no one else would. Then she lands the biggest assignment of her career: six months of exclusive access to Formula 1's most untouchable driver. Jannis "The Ice King" Laurence is the reigning world champion who despises the media almost as much as the media is obsessed with him. He calls LJ "Vixen" every time she digs too deep. She calls him "Ice King" just to watch that famous mask crack. Their explosive clashes become paddock gossip, and every headline insists they can't stand each other. They're wrong. Because somewhere between private jets, race weekends, and the secrets hidden behind Jannis's carefully built walls, hatred begins to blur into something far more dangerous. LJ has a steady boyfriend back home and a career she'd bleed for. Jannis has a dark past he'll burn everything down to protect—especially his hidden younger sister. Then LJ uncovers the truth behind the scandal that shattered Jannis's life—a truth that could clear his name... or destroy everything he's sacrificed to protect. Now she's trapped between the story of a lifetime and the man she's falling for. Because the Ice King is starting to melt. And this Vixen might be the one who finally breaks him.

Amelia Carter arrives at Westbridge University determined to graduate at the top of her class, protect her scholarship, and stay far away from drama. The last thing she expects is to clash with Damon Hayes, the arrogant, dangerously handsome captain of the university’s hockey team. Damon has everything: money, popularity, talent, and a reputation for never taking relationships seriously. But when his reckless lifestyle threatens his captaincy and professional hockey dreams, his coach gives him an ultimatum: clean up his image or lose everything. Desperate for a solution, Damon proposes a fake relationship to the one girl who can't stand him, Amelia. Their arrangement seems simple: three months, public dates, convincing kisses, and absolutely no feelings. But pretending becomes dangerously easy when Damon begins protecting Amelia, remembering the little things about her, and revealing the wounded man beneath his confident exterior. Amelia slowly discovers that the arrogant captain has a heart she never expected to love. Then Damon’s glamorous ex-girlfriend, Victoria Monroe, returns determined to reclaim him. Rumors spread, Amelia’s scholarship is threatened, and someone begins exposing secrets from her past. Just when Amelia finally trusts Damon, manipulated evidence makes it appear that she betrayed and used him. Damon believes the lie and publicly breaks her heart. But when he discovers the truth, he realizes Amelia was framed. With help from his best friend Ethan, Damon uncovers a dangerous connection between Victoria, her powerful brother Sebastian, and the sabotage threatening his career. Before Amelia can expose the truth, she disappears. Now Damon must risk his career, reputation, and future to save the woman he secretly fell in love with. Their relationship began as a lie. But this time, Damon is ready to make one promise real: he will never let Amelia go again.

Sienna had only her mother to rely on when growing up. Life was not easy but it was nice. A nice job, a loving mother and some real friends. But with the death of her mother, the hospital bills pilling up, suddently she can’t afford rent anymore. Her friend suggests a fake marriage with a hockey player that needs a greencard. It was supposed to be an easy task but little by little the grumpy hockey player manages to carv himself inside her heart. And she will have to protect herself for the heartbreak when after the end of the hockey season they get a divorce.

Ava Sinclair has one rule—stay away from jocks. They’re arrogant, they’re reckless, and they’re nothing but distractions. As Westbridge University’s top student, she has a strict schedule of study sessions, internships, and zero tolerance for football players, especially Logan Carter. Logan, on the other hand, thrives on breaking rules. When his teammates make a bet date the nerdy girl who’s never fallen for a jock he takes it as a challenge. After all, no one resists Logan Carter. But Ava does. Every time he flirts, she shuts him down but Logan isn’t one to back down, so he ups his game. But somewhere between the chaos, the teasing, and the forced proximity thanks to Ava's eviction that makes them neighbors, Logan starts falling for the very girl he was supposed to play. When Ava discovers the bet, will Logan be able to prove that this game stopped being a game a long time ago? Or will she show him that, for the first time, Logan Carter has met his match?

Sloane is bright, fiercely athletic, almost 20 yo Sophomore student. On the track, she's a promising runner with Olympic-sized dreams. Off the track, she's perfectly happy being one of the guys, "the funny one"-a sharp contrast to the typical well dress college girl. But last semester, her tomboy façade cracked. A disastrous, unreciprocated confession to her lifelong best friend left a permanent, painful dent in their friendship. She was ready to power through the awkwardness, keep her head down, and focus on her sophomore season, when, her world was shaken. A celebrated international star athlete and new exchange student, steps onto campus and into Sloane's life. He's popular, he's gorgeous, and he sees the vibrant woman under the baggy sweatshirts. He doesn't just challenge Sloane on the field; he forces her to confront her greatest flaw: her deep-seated belief that she's not beautiful. But as he teaches her what "beauty" truly means, a complicated new set of rules emerges, with her scholarship at risk and loosing her mind over calculus. Can Sloane chase her running dreams, navigate a new and intense romance, and survive the rumors, bad grades, and campus chaos that follow? Or will the pressure of becoming someone new lead to the biggest stumble of her life? ♡ This romantic comedy explores the complications of academic and athletic pressure at the high level demanded by universities as well as the modern beauty standards, while also capturing how fun and dramatic campus life can be for young people. ┖┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈୨♡୧┈┈┈┈┚ This book is entirely a work of fiction. The characters are all fictional, and all rights to this work are reserved by the author.

Leia Welsh, the ex-ice hockey pro turned college student overnight, is faced with a life-altering decision after a career-ending injury, or so everyone thinks. Offered the chance to coach the men's hockey team, Leia must prove herself to a bunch of rowdy childish men who probably only listen to Taylor Swift. Especially Kohl Warren, the junior player with a major sexual issues with her. Amidst the chaos of college hormones and hockey sticks flying everywhere, Leia and Kohl form an unlikely bond. Can they put aside their differences and win the big game? Or will their egos clash and ruin it all?

Jayda Marlowe gave up the only thing she ever loved—racing—for a man she believed would choose her forever. But he didn’t. When Antonio Moretti asked for a divorce, she didn’t beg. She didn’t fight. She just walked away… and never told him she was already running out of time. Now, with only months left, Jayda returns to the track and the boardroom, determined to build something that will outlive her. Strong. Untouchable. Unreachable. Or so she makes the world believe. Antonio thought losing her would be easy. But it wasn’t. Because the woman he let go is no longer the one who loved him quietly—she’s colder, sharper, and completely out of his reach. Now he wants her back. But how do you win back a woman who is already preparing to disappear?

Be my girlfriend." That's what Landon Cross said when he cornered me in the practice room. The quarterback. The enemy. The most beautiful man I've ever hated. He handed me a contract. Fifteen thousand dollars. Six months of pretending. My brother's heart surgery costs eighteen thousand. I have forty-seven dollars. I signed. No touching. No feelings. No telling anyone it's fake. We broke every rule within two weeks. Then his father found out. Gave him an ultimatum. My reputation or his future. He called me a gold digger in front of the whole school. Two years later, I'm a professional cellist. I'm fine. I'm lying. He showed up at my brother's graduation with the truth and a single piece of duct tape from my old cello case. "I never stopped," he said. Now I have to decide: forgive the unforgivable, or walk away forever.

Clark Johnson has always been invisible. A quiet bookworm in a very small Michigan town, he's used to being overlooked until the day Gordie Thomas, the school's larger football star, asked him to be his chemistry partner. What begins as an unlikely friendship quickly becomes something neither of them expected. But first love is rarely simple. As their secret relationship deepens, Gordie finds himself torn between the life everyone expected him to live and the feelings he can't seem to ignore. And when a girl enters the picture, Clark is forced to watch the boy he loves slip further and further away.

Ariana Brooks stopped believing in love the day it shattered her and she promised herself she’d never be fooled again. Jace Carter has spent his entire life fighting for a father who only sees failure where everyone else sees a star. When a fake dating arrangement throws the scholarship journalist and the university’s ice hockey captain together, it should be simple: three months, no feelings, no damage, no consequences. But every staged smile starts to feel real, every fake touch lingers too long and every line between pretending and truth begins to blur in ways neither of them can control. Until jealousy, buried secrets, and a betrayal neither expected explode into their carefully built lie forcing them apart just when they start to mean everything to each other. And when the ice finally cracks beneath everything they thought was real… what happens when the one person you were never supposed to love becomes the only one you can’t lose?

One punch turned the campus “Ice King” into a national pariah, and now the only person who can save his career is the girl who wants to see him fail. Leo Thorne had it all: captaincy, NHL scouts, and a reputation as untouchable. But when a rival player targets the one wound that never healed, Leo snaps. The viral footage labels him violent, unstable, and dangerous, and suddenly the future he built on the ice begins to collapse. Maya Ellison, a sharp-tongued film student, wants nothing to do with athletes, especially Leo. To her, he’s arrogant, spoiled, and worshipped for all the wrong reasons. But when her scholarship and senior project funding are threatened, she’s forced into an impossible deal: direct a reality-style redemption series designed to fix Leo’s image. The catch? The university announces that Maya is Leo Thorne’s secret girlfriend. Now they’re trapped in a fake relationship built for cameras, clicks, and damage control. Between staged dates, scripted interviews, jealous rivals, and producers hungry for drama, Maya and Leo spend more time fighting than flirting. “I can’t stand you,” Maya snaps after another disastrous shoot. Leo smirks, stepping closer. “Funny. I was about to say the same thing.” But somewhere between the lies and the spotlight, the act starts feeling dangerously real. Maya begins to see the grief Leo hides behind the Ice King mask, while Leo realizes the only person who refuses to worship him might be the only one who truly sees him. In a world where every touch is staged and every kiss is content, falling in love could ruin them both. Or it could be the one thing that finally saves them.