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"Let's play a game." "What game?" "One that involves you not screaming." ★★★★★ I'd been the perfect girlfriend to my star hockey player for two years. Stood in the rain at his practices. Drove hours just to watch him warm benches. Wore his jersey like it meant something. And he repaid me by fucking his way through half of Chicago—including the sister of the one man he's been obsessed with for years. Zane Mercer. The NHL's most dangerous player. My stepfather's worst enemy. And the man who looked at me like I was something worth destroying the world for. One impossible offer. One desperate bet. One night that changed everything. Zane doesn't do fake. He doesn't do half measures. When he tells me I'm his for two months, he means it. In every way that matters. But Zane has secrets buried so deep they connect to my family's past in ways I never imagined. Dark secrets. Deadly ones. What starts as a transaction turns into obsession. What starts as revenge turns into something I can't walk away from. And what starts as a lie might be the only truth that matters. They say some men are too dangerous to love. They're right. But I was never good at following warnings. ********** This book contains explicit sexual content, dominant/possessive behavior, morally gray characters, family conflict, and themes that may be triggering. Intended for mature readers 18+. This isn’t your normal hockey romance. It’s dark, raw, and unrelenting—where obsession, desire, and power collide, and nothing is off-limits.

Lila was the quiet nerd who used to be Jax’s everything—until high school popularity turned him into the biggest jerk on the ice. Best friends became strangers, and the constant bullying from his crowd made her life hell. Jax can’t stand watching it anymore. He still wants her, even if he’ll never admit it. So he offers the perfect solution: fake date him. As the school’s star hockey player, no one will dare touch what’s “his.” Protection, respect, and zero real feelings. Easy, right? Desperate for peace, Lila agrees. What starts as performative kisses in the halls and fake hand-holding at games quickly turns dangerously real. Stolen glances. Heated touches. Whispered confessions. Both of them are falling hard. Until the night Jax finally asks her to make it real. That’s when his twin brother Jett drops the bomb: Jax was the one who started the bullying. All of it. Just so he could swoop in and play the hero. Heartbroken and betrayed, Lila’s world shatters. Two brothers who both claim to love her are now tearing each other apart—for her. But who can she trust when the one who “saved” her was the villain all along? Fake love was supposed to be safe. Now it’s the most dangerous game of all

Blurb: Betrayed by her boyfriend who she had helped build his volatile hockey image, Dahlia is set to prove him wrong when he carelessly makes the remark that she can't find work again in his team if she quits, because all the other players wouldn't get on his bad side. According to him, he held all the cards. But what she doesn't know is that by trying to prove him wrong she will be setting herself up for more than she could have ever bargained. Because the very man she is going into this deal with, wants more than she has to offer.