Novel Web Romance & Cerita Badboy Love-Triangle Contemporary

I was supposed to marry perfect, golden-boy Adrian Vaughn in two days. But one wild, drunken bachelorette night in Miami changed my life for good when a game of truth or dare led me to a gorgeous stranger. After a night of endless tequila, I woke up with a wedding ring on my finger and a marriage certificate signed with a man I didn't even know. I told him to vanish out of my life, running back home to New York in hopes of forgetting the mistake and walking down the aisle to my fiancé. But the nightmare truly begins when I reach the altar and look at the best man. The stranger from Miami is Adrian's older brother. Now, I am trapped in a mansion with the perfect man I was supposed to marry and his dangerous brother who secretly owns my body and soul.

She scrubs his locker room floors at 2 a.m. He owns every rink he skates on — and apparently, every rule she swore she'd never break again. Amara Voss had a plan: stay invisible, mop up the mess, and pay off her comatose father's medical bills without anyone noticing her name. Her ex, Xavier Cole, already taught her exactly what hockey players are worth. Nothing. Then the team's golden-boy captain started staying late. "Give me your number." "Not happening." "Go out to lunch with me?" "Don't even try, Reyes." "Kiss me." She should have said no. She didn't. Now Amara is falling for the one man guaranteed to blow up her carefully mopped-together life: her ex's captain, the guy standing between Xavier and the NHL draft he'd burn the world down to protect. And Xavier isn't the type to lose quietly. When the ice cracks, it won't just be under their skates.

Maya has always been close to Ethan. They have been best friends since childhood, and his family has become a second home to her. But there has always been one person she could never quite figure out: Ethan’s older brother, Dean. Four years ago, at a high school party, Maya and Dean shared a kiss. It was Maya’s first kiss, and for a moment, everything between them felt different. Then Maya pulled away and ran, leaving Dean to believe that she regretted it. Now they are both students at Pelt University, and Dean has built a reputation as a charming flirt who never stays with one woman for long. Maya has tried to put the past behind her, convinced that whatever happened between them that night is over. Then Dean suddenly needs somewhere to stay. When he moves into the apartment Maya shares with Ethan, keeping their distance becomes almost impossible. Old memories return, and so does the tension neither of them wants to acknowledge. Maya struggles to understand why Dean still affects her, while Dean begins to wonder whether the kiss he has spent four years trying to forget actually meant more than he thought. Things become even more complicated when Maya befriends Cole, a funny and intelligent classmate who quickly becomes part of her life. Dean has no reason to care about Maya’s new friendship, yet he finds himself watching them more closely than he should. Between university life, new friendships, old feelings, and the awkward reality of living under the same roof, Maya and Dean are forced closer together. But there is still one question between them. Why did Maya run away that night? Some people are meant to stay off limits. Dean might be the one exception Maya can’t resist.

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